On his way he was repeatedly mobbed and had many narrow escapes from being torn to pieces.
Birney established here his anti-slavery journal, The Philanthropist, but his printing shops were repeatedly mobbed and his presses destroyed, and in January of 1836 his bold speech before a mob gathered at the court-house was the only thing that saved him from personal violence, as the city authorities had warned him that they had not sufficient force to protect him.
I'm sure it will be mobbed for the holiday weekend but if we have to wait, I'll be in the bar.
Great popular excitement was aroused against him; his workmen were mobbed; and Governor Claiborne, when appealed to for protection, referred the question to the Federal government.
A male catching voles alongside the minibus on South Uist was mobbed by Swallows.