malcontents

Some sage once said that the trouble with malcontents is that there is no satisfying them.

Home again, home again 2000

.. oHHH well you are keeping certain malcontents off the street ...

When is it my turn ? Norfolk Blogger 2009

Unhappily for the president and his new secretary of state, one of the malcontents was their rich and powerful friend Andrew Carnegie.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Unhappily for the president and his new secretary of state, one of the malcontents was their rich and powerful friend Andrew Carnegie.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

They don't, in the main, want someone who's going to rule for flag burners, pornographers, terrorists and various malcontents, which is sometimes what originalism demands.

"That is not Michigan," elites exclaim, looking at how Michigan citizens voted. Ann Althouse 2006

But what most clearly encouraged the malcontents was the power of Alcibiades at Samos, and their own disbelief in the stability of the oligarchy; and it was now a race between them as to which should first become the leader of the commons.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Among the malcontents were the Bulls, part of whom inhabited a pasture so rich that it was called the Green

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 Various

What chiefly encouraged the malcontents was the fact that the benefits to be gained by the dissolution of the monasteries were evident and present, while the ill-results lay in the future.

The King's Achievement Robert Hugh Benson 1892

Prominent among the malcontents was the deposed governor, Wingfield, who tried to bribe the colonists to return; another member of the council was shot for mutiny.

The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890

"Meanwhile," said Game, who of all the malcontents was the most honest,

The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872