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Example sentences for "perfidy"

Lexicographically close words:
perfide; perfidies; perfidious; perfidiously; perfidiousness; perfit; perfite; perforate; perforated; perforates
  1. In the meantime Napoleon Bonaparte, with that perfidy which had ever marked his conduct, had quitted the island of Elba, and, attended by 600 men, made his appearance on the shores of France.

  2. The policy of the government towards Mataafa has thus been of a piece throughout; always would-be violent, it has been almost always defaced with some appearance of perfidy or unfairness.

  3. The perfidy and corruption of the papacy now bore bitter fruit.

  4. The Marranos had got wind of this, and were so furious with the treacherous spy, that two of them followed him to punish his perfidy with death.

  5. How comes it that the South has not denounced the Democratic party for its perfidy in making promises which it never fulfilled?

  6. Allowing all that you have said to be veritable history, how comes it that the South has not denounced the Democratic party for its perfidy in making promises which it never fulfilled?

  7. The temptations which the count could hold out to her to become his accomplice in designs of which the fraud and perfidy would revolt her better nature had ceased to be of avail.

  8. They told me where some of your countrymen, whom Peschiera's perfidy had sent into exile, were to be found.

  9. If perfidy be my fate--what hell of hells, in the thought!

  10. The two victims of this perfidy were immediately buried upon the spot where they fell.

  11. The past is forgotten; for perfidy has received its reward.

  12. The path of history now leads us through the deepest sloughs of perfidy and crime.

  13. It was a barbaric age, rife with perfidy and crime, yet not one act of treachery or cruelty has sullied his name.

  14. As is generally the case in unsuccessful wars, perfidy and treachery were the subjects most current among the Crusaders.

  15. All these motives of discord and hatred provoked frequent scenes of violence, in which the Greeks displayed more perfidy than courage, and the Latins more valour than moderation.

  16. Whilst they remained in the territories of Isaac, they had to suffer from the perfidy of the Greeks; and when they arrived among the Turks, they had fresh enemies to contend with.

  17. Animated by the example of Louis, they might triumph over the Turks, over their misfortunes, and the rigours of winter; but they were without defence against famine and the perfidy of the Greeks.

  18. Scarcely had they entered Bithynia when they were taught how to appreciate the false reports and perfidy of the Greeks.

  19. He called in perfidy to his aid, and wounded vanity avenged itself in a manner as cowardly as it was cruel.

  20. The Sicilian deputies reminded the king of France and his barons of the perfidy of the Greeks towards the Franks in the first crusade.

  21. It was not long, however, before divisions arose between the general of Noureddin, who daily placed a more excessive price on his services, and the vizier, whom Chirkou accused of perfidy and ingratitude.

  22. Among the Greeks, stratagem and perfidy were decorated with the name of policy, and received the same encomiums as valour; they esteemed it as glorious to deceive their enemies as to conquer them.

  23. On their arrival in Pisidia the French had almost everywhere to defend themselves against the perfidy of the Greeks and the attacks of the Turks; but winter was even a more dangerous enemy than these to the Christian army.

  24. Conrad related the particulars of his defeat, and complained the more bitterly of the perfidy of Manuel, from feeling the necessity of excusing his own imprudence.

  25. The unhappy Dyer had his eyes opened to the exceeding perfidy of his lodger, but he dared not open his mouth as well.

  26. They have to protect themselves against the perfidy of men," cried Nellie.

  27. The unfortunate Poles appealed in vain to Great Britain, France, and Spain, and the States-general of Holland, on the atrocious perfidy and injustice of these proceedings.

  28. He then entreated the king not to reveal the contents of Emmanuel's letter to the Moors; and the king, with great apparent friendship, desired Gama to guard against the perfidy of that people.

  29. And she won't break her heart and make herself wretched over this perfidy of his, because a perfidious man ceases to have any attraction for her honest heart.

  30. I was afraid she would be utterly heart-broken, shaken with sobs over the perfidy of that handsome impostor whom she must always love.

  31. Age cannot Love destroy, 15 But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower.

  32. Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine 20 In which its vermeil splendours shine.

  33. Not four feet distant stood my husband of an hour, with his arms clasped fondly around Edith, who, in a broken, passionate voice, denounced his perfidy and heartlessness.

  34. Besides, in order perhaps to colour over, even to his own eyes, the abominable perfidy he meditated, he affected to be exceedingly enraged against the Duke for the late punishment of marauders belonging to his Italian bands.

  35. Hans Heiling is furious at the perfidy of Anna, and vows terrible vengeance upon her and Conrad, which he is about to put into execution with the aid of his gnomes.

  36. Peculiarly apt for musical setting is the tale of the fascinating little 'mousmé' who contracts a so-called Japanese marriage with a lieutenant in the American navy, and after a brief union is driven by his perfidy to suicide.

  37. Apostasy of the Jews and the Perfidy of the High Priests.

  38. Unconsciously but surely Judaism was drifting from its old moorings toward Hellenism, until the perfidy of its high priests and the persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes aroused it to a full realization of its peril.

  39. Apostasy of the Jews and Perfidy of the High Priests.

  40. On inquiry I found that this redoubtable captain of the gendarmerie had been a weaver before the Revolution, and by his perfidy had got advanced to the rank he held.

  41. He appeared greatly annoyed by the perfidy of the captured frigate Flore, and was preparing a letter[43] to the senior officer of the fugitives, demanding her to be given up, according to the laws of war and honour.

  42. Napoleon remonstrated against the perfidy of Spain, and the wrongs France was receiving at her hands.

  43. The temptations which the Count could hold out to her, to become his accomplice in designs of which the fraud and perfidy would revolt her better nature, had ceased to be of avail.

  44. The extreme perfidy ascribed by Ephorus to Pharnabazus appears to me not at all in the character of that satrap.


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    Other words:
    apostasy; betrayal; conspiracy; deserted; disloyalty; duplicity; falseness; falsity; infidelity; perfidy; treachery; treason; unfaithfulness