Read full poem →Or popularity? or stars and strings?
The mob's applauses, or the gifts of kings?
Say with what eyes we ought at courts to gaze,
Dictionary Entry
A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. mobviolence mobrule mobmob angrymob lynch
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Poetry examples for “mob”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Jf you should only compass her disgrace,
When all men starve, the wild mob’s million feet
Read full poem →Its sober squares of black and white were hid
Beneath a restless, shuffling, wide-eyed mob
Of lackeys and retainers come to view
Read full poem →I see the driver of Alix and the owner smothered in a
fury of handshakes, a mob of caresses. I see the
wives of the driver and owner smothered in a crush
Read full poem →Ackermann Peter G Rivrvw Vig Indn Hd
AOR 1 MOB e MILLING SERVICE wins
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Read full poem →“Very possible. Still I see nothing but a tumultuous mob of
idiots and madmen, who are busy in prostrating themselves before
Read full poem →Faint for the flesh, but for the spirit free,
Stung by the mob that came to see the show,
The Master toiled along to Calvary;
Read full poem →They storm the Earth and stun the Air,
A Mob of solid Bliss --
Alas -- that Frowns should lie in wait