Labourers became very scarce. They claimed higher wages. The lords tried to drag them back into serfdom; they tried to force them by law to take the old wage. On both sides of the Severn the labourers took arms, and waged war against their lords. The peasant war in England is called the Peasant Revolt; the peasant war in Wales is sometimes called the revolt of Owen Glendower.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
1284-1535. The rule of sheriff and march lord. Revolt of Ceredigion. Revolts In Gwynedd, Dyved, Morgannwg. Revolt of Llywelyn Bren. The Black Death in Wales. Rise of Owen Glendower. Battles of the Vyrnwy and Bryn Glas.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Of that came the great episode of the Peasants' War, led by men like Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball, who indeed, with those they led, suffered for daring to be before their time, for the revolt was put down with cruelty worthy of an Irish landlord or a sweating capitalist of the present day; but, nevertheless, serfdom came to an end in England, if not because of the revolt, yet because of the events that made it, and thereby a death-wound was inflicted on the feudal system.英文原著 · 《Signs of Change》
"Similarly your revolt against mankind has come of idleness, of lack of an interest in life. To you the world has been wearisome, so, while devising this revolt as a resource, you have excused it on the ground of service of God and love of equity, while in reality constituting yourself the devil's workman."英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
But, late or early, he had come; and what they had to give each other should not be mocked at and lost. The night she had ended by going to Anne's chamber, she had paced her room saying this again and again, all the strength of her being rising in revolt. She had been then a caged tigress of a verity; she had wrung her hands; she had held her palm hard against her leaping heart; she had walked madly to and fro, battling in thought with what seemed awful fate; she had flung herself upon her knees and wept bitter scalding tears.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
The wind sang and split the sky like thunder all the night through; in scraps of sleep it filled my dreams with the divine discordances of martyrdom and revolt; I heard the horn of Roland and the drums of Napoleon and all the tongues Of terror with which the Thing has gone forth: the spirit of our race alive. But when I came down in the morning only a branch or two was broken off the tree in my garden; and none of the great country houses in the neighbourhood were blown down, as would have happened if the Thing had really been abroad.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Something about this whole Sandinista revolt thing isn't clear to me.美剧 · 《Billions》
Karl, I'm not gonna lie on that revolting sheet, Wondering how many junkies have died on it.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》