"Mob" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forward on her own headway. In the silence that followed they heard from the city the confused murmur of a mob and the sharp bark of pistols. They looked at ...
— The White Mice • Richard Harding Davis
... in peace. Valens had restored him in good faith, and never afterwards molested him. If Lucius the Arian returned to Alexandria to try his chance as bishop, the officials gave him no connivance—nothing but sorely needed shelter from the fury of the mob. Arianism was nearly ...
— The Arian Controversy • H. M. Gwatkin
... dear lady, and has not the villainous demagogue got the whole mob on his side? Am I to have the Constantinople riots re-enacted here? I really cannot face it; I have not nerve for it; perhaps I am ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... shouting and howling, not a hundred yards off. Tom and I turned round and presented our rifles, shouting loudly to them to keep back. The moonbeams gleaming on the barrels showed the blacks what we were about, and the mob halting we rejoined our companions; again we pushed on. The number of our pursuers increased, we had, however, made up our minds not to yield and not to return; as soon as they saw us again moving on, they began to scamper towards us, ...
— The Two Supercargoes - Adventures in Savage Africa • W.H.G. Kingston
... front of the building, which was three stories high, and quite broad and deep, he found an excited mob of stable-hands, cab-drivers and tradespeople assembled, each trying to get ...
— Young Auctioneers - The Polishing of a Rolling Stone • Edward Stratemeyer
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