mutinous

How To Use mutinous In A Sentence

• And, when the ship becomes becalmed, mutinous impulses begin to rumble beneath the surface.
• Storm of mutinous anger gathers round the Captain stern and true, The Voyage of Magellan
• The surgeon they had hailed in had taken liberal time to show them how, night and morning, to unbandage, cleanse and rebind, and to tell them (smiling into the lad's mutinous eyes) that the only other imperative need was to keep him flat on his back for ten days. Kincaid's Battery
• He took her chin between thumb and forefinger, tilting her mutinous face up for his cool inspection.
• And of course, the longer the delay, the harder it became to manage an increasingly mutinous staff.
• The pony did not like it, sometimes so successfully resisting with spread, taut legs and mutinous head-tossings, as to overcome the jerk of the ropes, and, at the same time wheeling, to fall heavily on its side or to uprear as the pull on the ropes was relaxed. CHAPTER XXV
• Only, somehow, the package was chewed into a mutinous, multicolored glob of rainbow goo.
• The president accused mutinous troops of being influenced by ‘the smell of oil.’
• For more than 200 years, this volcanic rock has been home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and his mutinous shipmates, who burnt the HMS Bounty here in 1790.
• It may be doubted whether one of these retrenchments, involving a strict revision of officers 'allowances known as "batta," was considerable enough to be worth the almost mutinous discontent which it provoked. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)