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Example sentences for "treacherously"

Lexicographically close words:
traytor; traytour; tre; treacheries; treacherous; treachery; treacle; tread; treade; treader
  1. Cavagnari, and the other members of the mission were treacherously attacked and slain by the Afghans, and troops had again to be sent into the country.

  2. Agis at first took sanctuary in a temple, but he was treacherously seized and strangled, after going through the form of a trial.

  3. Then they went treacherously around and advertised the "sell" which they were going to play upon me.

  4. But on the morning of the 15th of March, the day fixed upon for assassinating Cæsar, Decimus Brutus treacherously enticed him to go with him to the Curia, as it was impossible to delay the deed any longer.

  5. Pelopidas, treacherously made prisoner by Alexander of Pherae, is rescued by Epaminondas.

  6. Theseus at length lost the favor of his people, and retired to the court of Lycomedes, king of Scyros, who at first received him kindly, but afterwards treacherously slew him.

  7. The body of Achilles so treacherously slain was rescued by Ajax and Ulysses.

  8. The island where Ariadne was left was the favorite island of Bacchus, the same that he wished the Tyrrhenian mariners to carry him to, when they so treacherously attempted to make prize of him.

  9. The victorious enemy proposed to the Grecians terms of accommodation, but, having invited Clearchus and other leaders to a conference, they treacherously put them to death.

  10. The ninth was Constantius who reigned sixteen years in Britain, and, according to report, was treacherously murdered in the seventeenth year of his reign.

  11. Uther, upon drinking spring water that was treacherously poisoned by the Saxons, dies.

  12. See, with this sword did the good-for-nothing treacherously slay my father.

  13. Treacherously murdered by Indians, it is said, at the instigation of Le Loutre.

  14. Treacherously murdered near the present town of Penetanguishene by a party of Hurons in 1632.

  15. In like manner, the duke of Burgundy, because my lord of Orleans was the more agreeable to the king, in his heart meditated his death, and in the end had him treacherously and infamously murdered, as shall be fully proven.

  16. It is plain, therefore, that our adversary has wickedly and treacherously put to death him who had the fullest confidence in his honour.

  17. In fact, had he been of a suspicious temper, he would not have been thus treacherously slain.

  18. Smithfield scene; the assassin Walworth treacherously murdering the brave but too-confiding Wat Tyler.

  19. His Grace hath used the French so nobly in all respects that he rather deserved their love than any wayes to have his life thus treacherously sought after, under the pretence that it was a meritorious act.

  20. An earlier embassy to France had reported that the French were behaving treacherously (Walsingham, Hist.

  21. The next day they were tried by court-martial, and found guilty of communication with the enemy and of having treacherously murdered their own men.

  22. This recovery of biscuit enabled General Gordon to hold Kartoum until the gates were treacherously opened to the enemy.

  23. On the extinction of the ancient royal family, the kingdom fell to Dambadine Pandar Pracura Mabago, who was treacherously taken prisoner by the Chinese, afterwards restored, and then murdered by Alagexere, who usurped the crown.

  24. About the end of August, Xemin Maletay, one of the four principal officers, who commanded in Prom, treacherously betrayed the city to the king of Siam, who ordered it to be utterly destroyed with fire and sword.

  25. These two captains being of the same religion with the four Moorish kings, treacherously combined with them to betray their own sovereign.

  26. Kvaser traversed the world, teaching men wisdom; but he was treacherously murdered by the dwarfs Fjalar and Gala.

  27. Camiccione de' Pazzi of Valdarno, by whom his kinsman Ubertino was treacherously pnt to death.

  28. William, Marquis of Monferrat, was treacherously seized by his own subjects, at Alessandria, in Lombardy, A.

  29. With a heart thumping in sympathy, Peddler leaned outward and followed that dreadful flight, till she reached that treacherously soft-looking carpet of tree-tops and was engulfed by it.

  30. After treacherously trying to murder the sentry on duty, and then treacherously striking down two people in the dark.

  31. He produced a copy of my letter to the junta of Castile, which some clerk in the French pay had treacherously transmitted from Madrid.

  32. I had you at my mercy when I was treacherously struck down from behind.

  33. Thus treacherously struck down, the brave youth dropped his knife and fell senseless to the ground.

  34. Alpharts Tod tells the story of the young knight Alphart, Hildebrand's nephew, and his encounter with two of Ermenrich's warriors named Witege and Heime, by the former of whom he was treacherously slain.


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