Sentence examples for great revolt from inspiring English sources

The last great revolt of the reign, in 1542 43, had a strong anti-Protestant strain.

Juliet Barker's England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 is published by Abacus.

"Friends, fellow-citizens and girls," Jinjur declares, "we are about to begin our great Revolt against the men of Oz!" Too bad they didn't storm Disney next.

They took no part in the great revolt of Judaea in ad 66 but in 115 began a formidable rebellion in Cyrene that spread to Egypt.

Willy Clarysse, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: "The Great Revolt of the Egyptians (205-186 BC)" Dominic Rathbone started teaching Greek and Roman history in the Department of Classics at King's College London in 1995.

So by the time the slaves launched their great revolt in 1791, most of those half-million blacks had been born in Africa, spoke African languages, worshipped African gods.

"There have been many great revolts by the working class in French history.

Sofie Laguna, Miles Franklin award-winning author of The Eye of the Sheep I had all the Roald Dahl books as a kid and loved his great, revolting villains – the Twits, George's grandmother, the Grand High Witch and, of course, The Trunchbull.

These interventionist attitudes form the background to the 1857 mutiny - the greatest rising against any colonial power in the Age of Empire, far surpassing in scale the other great revolts in Asia, Africa and the New World.

For though there were at that time at Sparta a general decline in manners, yet a greater revolt from the old habits appeared in him than in others.

Brokenhearted at the death of his son in 1647, Władysław died at the moment when the Cossacks, angered because his promises had failed to materialize, were beginning their greatest revolt against Polish rule.