What is "ringleaders"

Usage examples of "ringleaders".

Albius of Cales and Atrius of Umbria with the other ringleaders in this detestable mutiny will expiate their crime with their blood.

I lament the fatal Necessity to which you have now reduced me, by withdrawing yourselvesfrom the Mercy of the Crown, and the Laws ofyour Country, to require You are assembled as Regulators, to lay down your Arms, Surrender up the outlawed Ringleaders, and Submit yourselves to the Laws ofyour Country, and then rest on the lenity and Mercy of Government.

They drove the tribunes from their official seats, and then out of the camp, and amidst universal acclamation placed the supreme command in the hands of the chief ringleaders of the mutiny, two common soldiers whose names were C.

Abandoned by their followers, the ringleaders looked with dread upon the insignia they had assumed, and fully expected that in return for this idle show of power they would draw down upon themselves the weight of the true and legitimate authority.

They then dispersed for food and rest, and the ringleaders were conducted by the men selected for the purpose to their houses, where they were entertained, and where the tribunes arrested and manacled them without any disturbance.

For some time he sat in silence, until he received information that the ringleaders had been brought down to the forum and everything was in readiness.

So it is with calm and storms amongst you, the cause and origin of your madness is to be found in your ringleaders, who infected you with their frenzy.

Here he promptly seized the ringleaders, and this led to a general flight of slaves from the town.

It certainly looks as if Bangalore is one of the ringleaders in this smuggling and kidnaping business.

It was plain these ringleaders were not aware of the various arrests that had been made.

His police did a magnificent job in clamping down on the ringleaders and preventing serious disruptions and further loss of life.

If we pick him and the other ringleaders out, the rest of them will soon lose interest.

He has a dozen men still gaoled, outlawed ringleaders of the Regulation.