Word: riot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...match between two rival teams from the establishments of two rival Woolwich "crammers," the peaceful village was actually in a state of siege during two hours on account of a melee between these gentlemen and their adherents : the police being only with the greatest difficulty able to quell the riot. But although battue shooting and pigeon slaying have been developed since then, we have got to be much more humane with regard to our foot-ball, and a had hack now is an exceptional circumstance. The game in fact-whether Rugby or Association-has undergone a complete metamorphosis. "Passing...
...genuine "no popery riot" has occurred at Oxford. The facts are these: On a Saturday night near the end of February, a dignified emissary of the papal court, and the accredited representative of the Romish propaganda of the university, Mr. Grissell, who is a graduate of Brasenose, and is said to have been making converts in that college, visited the rooms of his prospective followers, and had just seated himself for "a quiet rubber" with a few men from other colleges, when they were serenaded by a large portion of the college in the quadrangle below, amid cries...
...enough of rhetoric to know climax from metonomy, and as much of metaphysics as would enable one to talk learnedly about a subject he did not understand. The students lodged in the dormitories and ate at the commons. The food then partaken of with thankfulness would now create a riot in a poor-house. At breakfast, which was served at sunrise in summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled out to each student a small can of unsettled coffee, a size of biscuit and a size of butter weighing generally about an ounce. Dinner was the staple...
...riot took place at Fayetteville, N. C., last evening, during which over 100 persons engaged in a fight, in which knives were freely used. Twenty of the combatants were wounded, some of them fatally. A man named Underwood was fatally shot. The riot was caused by a party of drunken men, who attacked several citizens in the street...
...preacher at the Church of San Carlo All' Arena, having used some offensive expressions respecting free-thinking students, some of the latter entered the church on the evening of the 25th of May, apostrophized the preacher, and cried out, "Hurrah for liberty of thought," "Down with the Reactionists." A riot ensued, the congregation attacking the students, who, however, escaped in the confusion. One woman was much hurt in the scuffle. On the same evening in two other churches a false alarm that the students were coming to disturb the service gave rise to slight panics...