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Rabble in sentence

58 examples of Rabble in a sentence

The captain, much more occupied with her than with that pack of the rabble, was amorously rumpling her girdle behind.
Another rabble pressed close around our old friend, the valiant King of Thunes, armed to the teeth.
But this noise did not even reach our deaf man, and this great multitude, of which he saw hardly anything, and of which he heard nothing, though it was marching and moving so near him, produced upon him the effect of a rabble of dead men, mute, impalpable, lost in a smoke.
To the sack, then! to the sack!""To the sack!" repeated the rabble, with a furious hurrah.
Two streams of melted lead were falling from the summit of the edifice into the thickest of the rabble.
Louis XI. continued: "Where did the watch meet the rabble?"
Monsieur the Duke of Burgundy was a great gentleman, and he turned up his nose at that rabble rout.
The rabble of the populace is suppressed.
I know Aulus Plautius, who, though he blames my mode of life, has for me a certain weakness, and even respects me, perhaps, more than others, for he knows that I have never been an informer like Domitius Afer, Tigellinus, and a whole rabble of Ahenobarbus's intimates.
He was relating to Marcus the case of Pedanius, reviling meanwhile the fickleness of that rabble which, next morning after the terrible butchery, applauded Nero on his way to the temple of Jupiter Stator.
The death only moved him; but at thought of that rabble reviling the Lamb nailed to the cross, the simple soul in him was indignant, and a wild desire of vengeance seized the man.
No herd of monkeys from the environs of Carthage could howl as did this rabble.
But the rabble was howling yet and applauding, knowing that it would applaud to itself favors, gifts, banquets, lottery tickets, and a fresh exhibition by the Imperial buffoon.
In fact, news of it was spread in the city, and roused great delight in the hearts of the rabble, eager for games with gifts of grain and olives, great supplies of which had been accumulated in Ostia.
The rabble gazed with delight and ridicule at the long ears swaying amid clouds of dust, and listened with pleasure to the whistling of whips and the wild shouts of the herdsmen.
Stories of this kind found ready credence among the rabble, stories believed by such men even as Tacitus and Pliny.
When he heard these words, he smiled; but at moments a cloud, as it were, passed over his face, for the Roman rabble was satirical and keen in reckoning, and let itself criticise even great triumphators, even men whom it loved and respected.
What might happen, therefore, in a place like the Trans-Tiber, which was the retreat of a rabble collected from all parts of the earth?
"The rabble are plundering houses," thought Vinicius.
Why remain in the face of disaster and a mad rabble?
Each report ran with lightning speed, and each found belief among the rabble, causing outbursts of hope, anger, terror, or rage.
In many places, however, applause was given by the rabble, which, owning nothing, had lost nothing in the fire, and which hoped for a more bountiful distribution than usual of wheat, olives, clothing, and money.
At moments he struck the most insolent heads with his cane, as if clearing a road for himself in an ordinary crowd; and that confidence of his, that calmness, amazed the raging rabble.
Peacocks, flamingoes, swans, ostriches, gazelles, African antelopes, and deer, which had served as ornaments to those gardens, went under the knives of the rabble.
Phy! how all this reminds me of the theatrical booths near the Porta Asinaria, in which actors play the parts of gods and kings to amuse the suburban rabble, and when the play is over wash down onions with sour wine, or get blows of clubs!
From afar came certain shouts which Petronius could not understand at once, but which rose and grew till at last they were one savage roar,--"To the lions with Christians!"Rich litters of courtiers pushed through the howling rabble.
I heard the hammers, and I saw them raise the cross on high, so that the rabble might gaze at the death of the Son of Man.
The shameful torments of maidens violated before death by gladiators dressed as wild beasts, delighted the hearts of the rabble.
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