How To Use high treason In A Sentence
- In July plots were discovered against James and Raleigh was arrested and charged with high treason.
- Graphics are not what they were - no swirl of copperplate breaking into black lettering for ‘High Treason’ - but the same appetite is being served.
- Released on bail, Lilburne, who from prison had issued an "Agreement of the Free People," calling for annual parliaments elected by manhood suffrage and the free election of unendowed church ministers in every parish, now published an "Impeachment for High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his son-in-law, James Ireton," and declared that monarchy was preferable to a military despotism. The Rise of the Democracy
- These cram it, not with lectures on political economy, books on international law, or any thing of that sort, but with food much more to its taste -- the very best honey, and a kind of _royal food_, which I suppose it is considered high treason for a subject to touch. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
- Because we sinned and thus committed high treason against the God of creation, we don't even deserve to exist!
- Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and phased it out for rarer crimes including piracy and high treason over the next 33 years. Times, Sunday Times
- The case before Judge Hoff was not one of high treason but one of unlawful extradition.
- The blood of one convicted of high treason is "attaint," and his deprivations extend to his descendants, unless Parliament remove the attainder. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
- In fact, except Oliver Cromwell, King William, a few gentlemen who had the misfortune to be executed or exiled for high treason, and every dissenting minister that he has or can find occasion to notice, there are hardly any persons mentioned who are not stigmatized as knaves or fools, differing only in degrees of "turpitude" and "imbecility". Famous Reviews
- Such thoughts were considered high treason as recently as the beginning of this year. Times, Sunday Times
