Both risings were put down later in the summer, the royal forces being augmented by foreign mercenaries gathered for war against the Scots. |
Magnificent weather, one of those sun risings that empurple landscapes, left the river all its limpid serenity. |
They also possessed lists of the fixed stars, and drew up tables of the times of their heliacal risings. |
The Girondins are struck down, but in the country follows a ferment of Girondist risings. |
The Greeks and Romans, with fairly useless calendars, continued to depend upon observing the heliacal risings and settings of stars. |
In the spring of 1648 a series of uncoordinated risings heralded the second civil war. |