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And yet methinks I did not befriend thee so ill two nights gone, when the rabble would have put thee and all thy house to the sword because of the death of the firstborn." Now Pharaoh looked on him long and doubtfully, then stretched out his hand. The Wanderer took it, and swore by his own Gods, by Zeus, by Aphrodite, and Athene, and Apollo, that he would be true to the trust.
You were, and are, and will be to my latest breath, my only love. "Perhaps you will think sometimes, as I shall think always, that we might have lived innocently and happily in New England, forgetting and forgotten by the rabble we left behind us, having shaken off the slough of an unhappy life, beginning the world again, under new names, in a new climate and country.
Speak, O lord, to the people, and make them promises." "Shall Cæsar speak to the rabble? Let another do that in my name. Who will undertake it?" "I!" answered Petronius, calmly. "Go, my friend; thou art most faithful to me in every necessity. Go, and spare no promises." Petronius turned to the retinue with a careless, sarcastic expression,
Insults were hurled, the grossest that the minds of a licentious rabble could suggest, fists were shaken, women spat toward the prisoner, even a few stones were cast, and when one of these happened to strike an African of the guard, he turned quietly and cut down the nearest citizen.
The end of the procession consisted of decorated buggies in which sat the orator of the day, a local poet, the school-teacher at the station, the minister, the professor, and a dozen prominent citizens and a rabble of horribles and plug-uglies that rent the air with yells; as it went by, it bore the admiring crowd in its train.
It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the populace wages battle against, the people.
I need not say that our ancestor himself scorned to hide from such a rabble, for he was a grown man. The boy lived to be a sad spendthrift, and used the well for cooling his wine. He drank up a great many good acres." "I should scratch him out of the pedigree, if I were you.
Their communications affected his mind in a way they little expected. Mr. Burke had lost all faith in any good result from the blind, headlong rush of the Revolution, and was appalled at the toleration, or rather, sympathy, shown in England, for the riots, outrages, and murders of the Parisian rabble. He began writing the "Reflections," as a warning to his countrymen.
I could not see his face, but I had no need to see it. I knew him, and groaned aloud. It was Bezers! I understood the scene better now. The horsemen, stern, bearded Switzers for the most part, who eyed the rabble about them with grim disdain, and were by no means chary of their blows, were all in his colours and armed to the teeth.
When Hengist knew that the king followed closely after, and that fight he must, he strove to put heart and hardihood into the breasts of his fellows. "Comrades," said he, "be not dismayed by reason of this rabble. We know well enough what these Britons are, since they never stand before us. If but a handful go against them, not one will stay to fight.
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