Secondly and thirdly we may ascribe the rise of the new epic to the nature of the Boeotian people and, as already remarked, to a spirit of
revolt against the old epic.
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With an inward agony, with a flaming, outspoken
revolt against the ways of Nature, she witnessed the scene of torture.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
"Friends, fellow-citizens, and girls!" she said; "we are about to begin our great
Revolt against the men of Oz!
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Byron (George Gordon Byron) expresses mainly the spirit of individual revolt,
revolt against all existing institutions and standards.
A History of English Literature
Not many leagues from here is a tribe of Jews whose ancestors fled thither after an unsuccessful
revolt against King David, and these their descendants are still under a ban and keep to themselves.
The Innocents Abroad
By some mysterious influence which she was unable to trace, the boisterous merriment of the two girls had roused in her a sense of
revolt against the life that she was leading.
I Say No
In noveldom woman still sets the moral standard, and to her the males, who are in full
revolt against the acceptance of the infatuation of a pair of lovers as the highest manifestation of the social instinct, and against the restriction of the affections within the narrow circle of blood relationship, and of the political sympathies within frontiers, are to her what she calls heartless brutes.
Unsocial Socialist
Every see-saw of her breath, every wave of her blood, every pulse singing in her ears, was a voice that joined with nature in
revolt against her scrupulousness.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
At that time Ireland was filled with storm and anger, with
revolt against English rule, with strife among the Irish nobles themselves.
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And to think that these people had been upon the point of instituting a
revolt against the bailiff through impatience to hear his work!
Notre Dame de Paris
[1] In August 1791, as a consequence of the French Revolution, the black slaves and mulattoes on Haiti rose in
revolt against the whites, and in the period of turmoil that followed enormous cruelties were practised by both sides.
Uncle Toms Cabin
{Duchesse d'Angouleme = Marie Therese Charlotte, the Dauphine, Adrienne's patron; her sister = her sister-in-law Marie Caroline, Duchesse de Berry, who led an unsuccessful
revolt against the new regime}
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
She might believe herself wholly in
revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her, even though it were against her will.
The Age of Innocence
It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man--man who is the most restless of life, ever in
revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement.
White Fang
Her insular notions of propriety rose in perpetual
revolt against Pesca's constitutional contempt for appearances; and she was always more or less undisguisedly astonished at her mother's familiarity with the eccentric little foreigner.
The Woman in White