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Most of the damage has come from backwater flooding where smaller tributaries have mutinied against their banks.

From Time • May 12, 2011

"Is it true that German troops have mutinied in East Prussia and in Pomerania?"

From Time Magazine Archive

To Siegfried Sassoon My arms have mutinied against me—brutes!

From Poems by Owen, Wilfred

That crews have mutinied on the high seas is undoubted, while we know of several mutinies involving hundreds of men that have occurred in German ports—all because of objections to submarine service.

From Our Navy in the War by Perry, Lawrence

Now two thirds would have mutinied had we not been going back—but we were going back—creeping, crawling back as the tempest would allow us.

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary