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"Uncontrollable" Quotes from Famous Books

... uncontrollable outburst his eyes wistfully sought hers. She met his look with a languid indifference and ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... and sinking on the green bank by the roadside, Eleanor buries her face in the grass and sobs in uncontrollable anguish. ...

— When the Birds Begin to Sing • Winifred Graham

... disapproval of the horrors of Amboise, and in her efforts to bring milder counsels to bear in dealing with the Huguenots whom she feared less than the Guises; but the fierce passions roused by civil and religious hatred were uncontrollable. When the Huguenot noble, Villemongis, was led to the scaffold at Amboise, he dipped his hands in the blood of his slaughtered comrades, and, lifting them to heaven, cried: "Lord, behold the blood of Thy children; Thou wilt avenge ...

— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey

... lay beyond the western boundaries of Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa, and which the policy of our early Presidents fixed upon as the final asylum of the red men retreating before the advance of white settlements. But now the uncontrollable stream of emigration had broken into and through this reservation, creating in a few years well-defined routes of travel to New Mexico, Utah, California, and Oregon. Though from the long march there ...

— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay

... been compelled to interfere. The excited mob which had tasted blood, as it were, in the Chinese quarter and become more and more frantic, had continued plundering in some of the downtown streets without any discrimination—simply yielding to an uncontrollable desire for destruction. As a result a regular battle ensued between this mob, which consisted chiefly of Russian and Italian rabble, on one hand, and Irish workingmen who were defending their homes, on the other. The Russian contingent seemed ...

— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

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