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Ty·ler

(tī′lər)

A city of northeast Texas east-southeast of Dallas. Founded in the mid-1800s, it is noted for its rose-growing industry.

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Tyler

(ˈtaɪlə)

1. (Biography) John. 1790–1862, US statesman; tenth president of the US (1841–45)

2. (Biography) Wat (wɒt). died 1381, English leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381)

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Ty•ler

(ˈtaɪ lər)

n.

1. Anne, born 1931, U.S. novelist.

2. John, 1790–1862, 10th president of the U.S. 1841–45.

3. Wat or Walter, died 1381, English leader of the peasants' revolt of 1381.

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Noun	1.	Tyler - elected vice president and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862) John Tyler, President Tyler
	2.	Tyler - a town in northeast Texas Lone-Star State, Texas, TX - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico

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Tyler, Sr., and arranging plans for the succor of his son.

Tyler, Jr., had taken passage for France to join the American Ambulance was a well-known fact, and I had further substantiated by wire to the New York office of the owners, that a Miss La Rue had been booked for passage.

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Disheartened, Bradley determined to turn back toward the fort, as he already had exceeded the time decided upon by Bowen Tyler and himself for the expedition.

They told of the disappearance of Miss La Rue in the night of September 11th, and of the departure of Bowen Tyler in search of her, accompanied only by his Airedale, Nobs.

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The thing that would have best suited the circus side of my nature would have been to resign the Boss-ship and get up an insurrection and turn it into a revolution; but I knew that the Jack Cade or the Wat Tyler who tries such a thing without first educating his materials up to revolution grade is almost absolutely certain to get left.

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And he is upon the whole of a fixed opinion that to give the sanction of his countenance to any complaints respecting it would be to encourage some person in the lower classes to rise up somewhere--like Wat Tyler.

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This demand was met by the ruling classes with sternly repressive measures, and the socialistic Peasants' Revolt of John Ball and Wat Tyler in 1381 was violently crushed out in blood, but it expressed a great human cry for justice which could not permanently be denied.

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In which set of chambers, never having troubled his head about the inscription, unless to bethink himself at odd times on glancing up at it, that haply it might mean Perhaps John Thomas, or Perhaps Joe Tyler, sat Mr.

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Hence the fierce mutterings of the lower classes and the constant discontent, breaking out into local tumult and outrage, and culminating some years later in the great rising of Tyler. What Alleyne saw and wondered at in Hampshire would have appealed equally to the traveller in any other English county from the Channel to the marches of Scotland,

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So he himself had often believed at first, until his eyes became used to the posts, bearing the dagger that slew Wat Tyler, in the City of London shield.

Even to Bradley Headstone, who could have told to the letter without book all about Wat Tyler, Lord Mayor Walworth, and the King, that it is dutiful for youth to know, there was but one subject living in the world for every sharp destructive instrument that summer evening.

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For in June, 1381, while John Wyclif still lived and wrote, Wat Tyler led his men to Blackheath in a rebellion which proved to be the beginning of freedom for the workers of England.