Rampaging groups of lawbreakers

Usage examples of rioters.

From an assault on draft headquarters, the rioters went on to attacks on wealthy homes, then to the murder of blacks.

Wolfensohn had it wrong, and that what he calls rioters were in fact innocent victims of deadly repression.

The little door was on the Norton Bury side, and was hid from the opposite shore, where the rioters had now collected.

I have been going to and fro all night, between there and here, waiting till the rioters should come back from the Severn mills.

The rioters were too far off--our spiked iron railings, eight feet high or more, being a barrier which none had yet ventured to climb.

So sudden had been his act, that even the rioters did not seem to have noticed, or clearly understood it, till the next lighted torch showed them the young man standing there, with his back to the door-- OUTSIDE the door.

Mercenaries and rioters fled, an assassin thwarted, allies rallying, Benedicte defeated and Marco turned.

But the rioters wasted their energies on looting and trivial revenges, for all the underground could do to guide them.

The rioters gave it up as a bad job and fled, while the three professionals grinned at each other.

The dazed rioters started to sort themselves out and nurse their bruises.