Incendiary type

Usage examples of agitator.

Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induced him to desert.

I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy.

One Adolf Hitler was an early Party agitator, but as I recall it he intrigued against the Leader during the War of Triumph and was executed.

This the great agitator declared he would obtain by moral force only, if the people of Ireland abstained from rebellion, and preserved the moral attitude of a united demand for the repeal of the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland.

Others supposed that it would now assume a worse form, in consequence of the absence of those restraints which the superior sagacity of the arch agitator laid upon the more fiery and imprudent ringleaders.

This debate was remarkable as giving an opportunity to the great agitator for his last parliamentary effort.

The publicly expressed opinions of the agitator had been so very adverse to those conveyed in this private communication, that its perusal caused a great sensation in the house.

Whiteside was regarded as having too much of the clever, eloquent, fiery Irish agitator in his own constitution, not to have some complaisant sympathy with such qualities in his countrymen.

But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas.

Although it is not clear how much the highborn agitators contributed to this development, the police undertook a sweep of the Marxists, and in 1895 Lenin and Martov were arrested.

A gang of men, pretending to be agitators, bomb or burn every, factory and mine which attempts to start operations, and terrorize all men who want to go back to work.

Hardfaced men--the agitators who had been prominent in the trouble from the first--mounted soap boxes at street corners, and began to label Aunt Nora as a sinister woman, and Doc Savage a murderer and worse.

The day was marked by a dribble of bruised and battered agitators into the hospitals.

The character of this movement will more fully appear when noticing the debates in parliament which afterwards took place on the subject: it is here only necessary to say, that the ostensible and real objects of the agitators were very different.

This is the level of culture at which Sherman Anti-Trust acts are passed, brothels are raided, and labor agitators are thrown into jail.