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All the excitement of her rabble rousing had been suitably extinguished, along with our enthusiasm for this show.

This is because, to the rabble-rousers Reed can manage to convene these days, Priebus is Da Man.

The trial brought accusations of lewd rabble-rousing and rampant sexism at corporate events—bad publicity to say the least.

He was quickly apprehended by the cops, who lined the street and kept rabble rousers on the sidewalks.

Earlier in the book, Murray waxed indignant about the "condescension toward the rabble" he detected in the new upper class.

A touch of the spurs sent Nejdi with a mighty bound into the midst of the rabble who held the road.

Soult's corps arrived without cannon or baggage, a mere armed rabble, and Ney's men jeered at the disorganised battalions.

Maltby and Butler chased John Burke and his rabble up and down the country, but could never come up with them.

But a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises, made my head ake all this evening.

This process effected a total change of deportment in the small rabble that stood looking on.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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