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Example sentences for "perjury"

Lexicographically close words:
perjured; perjurer; perjurers; perjuries; perjuring; perked; perking; perky; perlas; perle
  1. John of Oxford was armed with more powerful weapons than perjury or submission, and the times now favored the use of these more irresistible arms.

  2. All agreed that Becket was guilty of perjury and treason.

  3. The second stands recorded in the votes of the House of Commons, for endeavouring, by perjury and subornation, to take away the life of John Bingham, Esq.

  4. Public officials who embezzled public funds were committed for Perjury as well as Larceny, and were debarred from ever holding office.

  5. Larceny and Perjury were punished by five years' imprisonment, and subject to parole after one year.

  6. It required a deal of perjury to save the murderer from noose and trap.

  7. Why don't you go down to the tax office, and commit perjury like a man?

  8. She would be exposed, fined thousands of pounds, committed to gaol for contempt of court, and prosecuted for perjury into the bargain.

  9. She had dreaded two things chiefly,--her first interview with her cousin Frank after he should have learned the truth, and those perils in regard to perjury with which Lord George had threatened her.

  10. One man knew it, and he had talked to her of perjury and of five years' imprisonment.

  11. Her evidence would be needed to convict the thieves, and she could not be prosecuted for perjury when once she had been asked for her evidence.

  12. That which had been perjury with Lord George, had by the major been so simply, and yet so correctly, called an incorrect version of facts!

  13. Then came a bitter moment, in which she had to confess her perjury before the Carlisle bench;--but even that seemed to pass off smoothly.

  14. But you see there was a lawsuit in Chancery going on about them; and then you committed perjury at Carlisle.

  15. Lord George had talked to her of perjury and prison, and had tried to frighten her by making the very worst of her faults.

  16. Lady Eustace committed perjury at Carlisle, having the diamonds in her pocket at the very moment in which she swore that they had been stolen from her.

  17. I have been told, that the Lord Mayor had given up the Cause, finding all Perjury that had been brought before him: There is no Truth in any Part of this.

  18. The United States Treasury received only a small fraction of the confiscated property, and most of the proceeds of that have been released to people who were willing to commit perjury in order to get it.

  19. They were required to take the "iron-clad" test oath, and the penalties of perjury were to be visited upon official or voter who should take the oath falsely.

  20. And as a preparative to it, Oates was convicted of perjury upon the evidence of the witnesses from St. Omers, who had been brought over before to discredit his testimony.

  21. He sought by Act of Parliament to have his judgment for perjury reversed, but he could never obtain a swearing capacity again.

  22. Simon declared that it would be a worse perjury to abandon his oath to keep the Provisions of Oxford than his oath to abide by the French king's award.

  23. If he swore falsely, it was perjury and he was to forfeit 500 pounds and his right to vote.

  24. The punishment for perjury or subordination of perjury is hard labor in the House of correction for up to seven years or transportation for up to seven years.

  25. He confessed to perjury at the Ryan inquest, naming the witnesses and the amounts he paid to each.

  26. For whatever oaths or subscriptions you require, he that believeth not that there is a God or a devil, a heaven or a hell, will yield to all, and make no more of perjury or a lie, than to eat a bit of bread!

  27. The name of God is horribly abused, by the crying sin of perjury (of which before).

  28. He is virtually a traitor to princes and states, who would bring perjury and perfidiousness into credit, and teacheth men to violate oaths and vows.

  29. Do nothing that tendeth to bring the sacred bonds of oaths into an irreligious contempt, or to make men take the horrid crime of perjury to be a little sin.

  30. It is not all surprising that a feudal baron, or captain of the early ages, should have preferred the chances of a fair fight with his opponent, to a mode by which firm perjury would always be successful.

  31. One is tempted to look upon the death of Henry II as a judgment upon him for his perjury in the matter of duelling.

  32. If they take the latter course, I shall convict them of perjury beyond doubt.

  33. The insurgents sought vengeance not only for the perjury of Gaudry, but also for the odious exactions and cruelties that they had suffered before the establishment of the Commune.

  34. Commission Bill 59 amended an act providing for the punishment of perjury "by changing the punishment for perjury and by punishing persons who endeavour to procure or incite other persons to commit perjury.

  35. Its object was to remedy a defect in existing law under which there is no punishment provided for subornation of perjury in official investigations.

  36. You are liable,” said the Judge, “to be prosecuted for perjury if you do not tell the truth.

  37. Swearing a false oath or perjury is punishable by loss of one's hand or half one's wergeld.

  38. Perjury was punished by confession from a high stool for the first offense, and the pillory for the second.

  39. Perjury was punished by forfeiture of all one's goods and chattels to the King and at least one year's imprisonment.

  40. This is to curtail the perjury that has gone on with jurors of little substance, discretion, and reputation.

  41. In regard to amnesty, the amendment to the Constitution which Congress has passed disqualifies no Rebels from voting, and only disqualifies them from holding office when they have happened to add perjury to treason.

  42. The punishment of perjury is left to the superior powers (orang alus).


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perjury" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    artfulness; coloring; distortion; equivocation; exaggeration; falsification; fraud; insincerity; intrigue; lie; lying; misconstruction; misrepresentation; misstatement; perjury; perversion; prevarication; straining