How To Use Treachery In A Sentence

  • Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
  • Calling the open-sourcing of software treacherous is a little wildly off base, where is the treachery? Did Open Source ever have a halo? : #comments
  • He was accused of treachery and was summoned to a closed meeting with the leaders of his group.
  • The merest hint of effeminacy is treated as treachery to masculinity, and traitors are subjected to the kinds of violence suffered by women.
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  • He accomplished this task by treachery, secrecy, speed and dishonesty.
  • He was deeply wounded by the treachery of close aides.
  • In Crown & Country he provides the reader with enough intellectual rigour to impart context, before livening the page with pithy tales of treachery or cruelty, of double-dealing or disaster. Crown & Country by David Starkey - review
  • They claim they can help companies place higher in your rankings, but sometimes they resort to treachery.
  • The alleged treachery of the abbot and monks of Ely after William seized monastic lands is blamed for the ultimate surrender.
  • Medieval people had a horror of treachery and cowardice; the two were often felt to go hand in hand.
  • As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness {sic}, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl. Fanny Herself
  • The film revolves around crimes of passion based on unrequited love, lust, treachery and revenge.
  • She knew or guessed at the unchronicled treachery or deceit which had brought about that seemingly harsh word or deed. Red Pottage
  • In this scenario, Lin and his high military commanders, sensing's treachery, plotted a preemptive coup d'etat.
  • Yeah. And a lot of we call treachery, you know, where one state would join with another state, and gang up on the third one.
  • There is no question of betrayal, of treachery. Times, Sunday Times
  • These included a far-reaching mission to snuff out treachery and defeatism in an area which included his old home. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • It is a story of intrigue, deception and treachery.
  • Medieval people had a horror of treachery and cowardice; the two were often felt to go hand in hand.
  • They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and "devilry" as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • The femme fatale is noted for changeability and treachery.
  • In all his dealings with the Acadians, the Indian had found only unimpeachable faith and honor; but with the colonist of Massachusetts, there had been nothing but over-reaching and treachery: intercourse with the first had not led to a scratch, or a single drop of blood; while on the other hand a bounty of "one hundred pounds was offered for each male of their tribe if over twelve years of age, if scalped; one hundred and five pounds if taken prisoner; fifty pounds for each _woman and child scalped_, and fifty pounds when brought in alive. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
  • Adam's apparent lack of concern enraged Mike, as hurt by his brother's treachery as he was by the theft.
  • Ancient memories of treachery and betrayed trust screamed in warning at the very thought, and Bahzell had muttered of gods and wizards while the dream was upon him, even if he couldn't recall the words to his waking mind.
  • Burckhardt, who suffered from them, gives a long account of their treachery and utter absence of that Arab “pundonor” which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Here was one of my intellectual heroes committing an act of ideological treachery.
  • The loss of Robert had awoken her to the innate treachery of all certainties. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • The costs of holding to the agreement in all contingencies include perceptions of unfairness—distributionally, in process, from surprises, and from treachery, for example. The Manager as Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain
  • 'But why do you not leave the Vaults by the' forty-foot cave 'thro' which I entered? 'demanded Frank, who was fearful of some treachery. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston
  • To outsiders that may look like treachery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even worse for John, his tenure as PM had been marked by treachery and sleaze.
  • That would savour of something like treachery, a kind of anti-supporting of your own team.
  • To justify and cloak the treachery a letter was written by Carew to the _sugane_ Earl reminding him of _his_ engagement to deliver up O'Conor; this _letter_, as pre-arranged, was intercepted by the latter, who, watching his opportunity, rushed with it open into the Earl's presence, and arrested him, in the name of O'Neil, as a traitor to the Catholic cause! A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2
  • It is a stirring, brutal tale of conspiracy and intrigue, treachery and dissent, the overthrow of a hapless leader named Duncan.
  • Cheeks empurpled, spit launching in all directions, eyes afire with outraged vanity, the Colonel will have none of your treachery.
  • He folded her into his arms, forgetting that he knew her arms were a great treachery.
  • Mum was absolutely incandescent with rage at my treachery. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are DISGUSTED by the barbs of a blonde attorn-o-pundit and thrilled with the treachery of Roaring Al Gore. Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows
  • a precaution against treachery, insisted upon the page going with them; and thus Estela became informed that her betrayer was a woman, and also learned the reason for her conduct. The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She P
  • It highlights all that is bad in human nature: cunning, craftiness, and treachery.
  • The opera's plot is the typically confusing farrago of unrequited love, disguises, nobility pitted against treachery, and everything set right at the very last minute.
  • It had to be the smuggling, the theft of high-technology, the implications of villainy, even treachery; only then could he move to -- THE LAST RAVEN
  • Anger, rudeness, treachery and violence stalk us from the day we are born. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ironically, the way in which Aeneas abandons Dido in favour of his preordained fate is characteristic of Carthaginian treachery.
  • Any threat to this peace must be treated as an act of treachery - a traitor's action.
  • Love turned to hate and treachery, and bitter, cankering pain. Archive 2010-05-01
  • That night they plumbed the depths of treachery and horror, and murdered the king as he slept.
  • Weeks in unheated cattle cars, forced labor, and malnutrition broke the health of millions whom Stalin delivered into this boreal hell, but it was the senseless suspicion and climate of treachery inspired by Soviet ideology that shattered their spirits and left only cynicism and mute despair in their stead. This Side of Ultima Thule
  • Can this be double-distilled treachery? — or can it be what men call disinterestedness? — Count Robert of Paris
  • It would, therefore, have been an act of treachery not to speak on behalf on the people that he represented.
  • The way we are taught Shakespeare is too often loaded towards the idea that his plays are about supposedly unchanging things, like love or ambition or treachery.
  • The island is a topsy-turvy world, a magical and terrifying place where the voyagers' encounters are unpredictable, filled with treachery, danger and wonder.
  • The carefully controlled plan, the coup d'état they are preparing for, will collapse in a whirlwind of treachery and counterplots, and eventually they will be forced to abandon it.
  • The film revolves around crimes of passion based on unrequited love, lust, treachery and revenge.
  • Exactly when the first subtle monition of treachery reached him, by what sense it was conveyed -- Hulse never learned, for there were experiences among the finer perceptions that the blind man did not willingly discuss. Angel With No Hands
  • But he has been ruined by a scandal that exposed corruption and treachery in the innermost circles of the party. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) engages in a bit of Bluegrass State treachery by snubbing the Colonel and ordering from the lesser-known poultry chain [Strategic Healthcare Townhouse, 230 Second Street SE]. HUFFPOST HILL - MAY 4, 2010
  • From the perspective of Russian strategists, this proposal smacks of incredible stupidity or even treachery.
  • Quentin, although rather surprised, was at the same time pleased with the ready, or at least the unrepugnant acquiescence of Hayraddin in their change of route, for he needed his assistance as a guide, and yet had feared that the disconcerting of his intended act of treachery would have driven him to extremity. Quentin Durward
  • Was this association with tyranny and treachery the cause of Socrates' trial and conviction?
  • Carthaginians called sagacity, and the Romans treachery and cunning, determined not to see these messengers. Hannibal Makers of History
  • After the war there was a Dutch parliamentary commission of investigation, but it discovered neither treachery nor duplicity.
  • It is a stirring, brutal tale of conspiracy and intrigue, treachery and dissent, the overthrow of a hapless leader named Duncan.
  • Figuring the outlaw as the martyred victim of both tyranny from without and treachery from within, oral tradition solicits sympathy and even pity for the people's hero.
  • These are deliberate acts of treachery and are roundly condemned.
  • It highlights all that is bad in human nature: cunning, craftiness, and treachery.
  • She, with all her treachery and greed, remains unsubdued.
  • We will not forget that treachery, and we will accept nothing less than victory over the enemy.
  • Some friend of the kaid having given him due notice of the raiders 'intentions -- treachery is a painfully common feature of these forays -- he had been well prepared to meet these godless men. Morocco
  • For a time his treachery caused such disorganization in the army that the city fell into the hands of the Czechs and Whites.
  • In some other countries that would be called treason or treachery.
  • But while his essays are rightly complimented, his novels remain undervalued, sniped at by academics and denigrated by the reactionaries who see any attempt to knock America's heroes down to size as an act of treachery.
  • In the popular mind the Gunpowder Plot, with its dramatic aim of blowing up the Houses of Parliament, has become the archetypal anti-state conspiracy and its main executor the personification of treachery.
  • His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiendlike malice. Chapter 24
  • L.beration Front (MIL.) guerrillas-who were supposed to be By Efren L. Danao, Senior Reporter Citing treachery by the Moro WN.com - Articles related to Shock and Awe Obama wins peace Nobel
  • Mum was absolutely incandescent with rage at my treachery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some have rushed to suggest he was more popular than his abrasive manner and suspected treachery might suggest. The Sun
  • The damosel beheld the poor knight, and saw he was a likely man, but for his poor arrayment she thought he should be of no worship without villainy or treachery. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • Its members were accused of exceeding their powers, of truckling to the foreigners, and even of treachery.
  • There won't be a single family in the country unaffected, there will be bloodshed, treachery, espionage, murder, pogroms and massacres.
  • There, one ceases to be a prey and a laughing-stock; there, one sees no more bloodshed and spulzie; there, one need not be forced to treachery or violence. The Caged Lion
  • This was the Shi'Kartan revenge for their treachery, to be destroyed utterly by weapons that they would never be able to defend against.
  • Then I realized that any of the the various small stories of treachery and betrayal I had encountered could form the thews and sinews of a mystery novel.
  • His treachery led to the capture and imprisonment of his friend.
  • This downfal is accomplished by the invasion of his newly acquired realms by Alp Arslan, and by the treachery of the partisans of Jabaster; and his head falls afterwards by the scimetar of his conqueror. A Review of 'Alroy'
  • It is almost as if they enjoy seeing backwoodsmen in both parties seething over such 'treachery'. The Sun
  • Newmania said ... the inactiveness of the middle-classes in the face of outright treachery. Kneel Before the Tree God
  • He had to contend against treachery, desertion and want, but rose above all these obstacles, and proved himself the most powerful obstructor that the British columns had to encounter in South In the Shadow of Death
  • Treachery has fomething fo wricked, and worthy of PuniHiaieat in its Nature, that it deferves to meet with a Reiurn of its own Kind; an open Revenge would be too liberal for it, and nothing matches it but iifelf. Fables of Aesop and Others
  • Corley said she was standing down as leader because of the treachery of her own colleagues.
  • To one suc h as O'Reilly this must betoken treachery or moral collapse. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • For others, though, it's a dreaded nightmare of confrontation and recrimination, self-destructive despair and passive-aggressive treachery.
  • O'Grady's depiction of treachery and oppression by Elizabethan bureaucrats recalled contemporary parallels, thought the reviewer.
  • He had never cared for his stepmother and now that her treachery was known to him, it was impossible not to send barbed comments in her direction.
  • Without the power to say no, all kinds of treachery is used and everyone involved becomes demoralized, cynical and fatalistic.
  • I looked back at the manor once as I borrowed a horse from the stableman in hopes that if I survived my father's treachery, I would be able to have an excuse to return here and make peace with Bryan again.
  • Of all the Mahomedans assembled in the room discussing the events of the day, one only, an old moollah, openly and fearlessly condemned the acts of his brethren, declaring that the treachery was abominable, and a disgrace to Islam. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
  • It _did_ take a dozen men in full armor to kill the armorless Pizarro, and even then it took trickery and treachery to do it. Despoilers of the Golden Empire
  • Trick and treachery are the practice if fools,that have not wit enough to be honest.
  • Now shall I tell you, said the damosel; this sword that I am girt withal doth me great sorrow and cumbrance, for I may not be delivered of this sword but by a knight, but he must be a passing good man of his hands and of his deeds, and without villainy or treachery, and without treason. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • Downing Street, if not quite yet gripped by paralysis, is at least on edge waiting for malevolent treachery to strike again.
  • But Aedituus cried to him, Hold, hold, honest friend! strike, wound, poison, kill, and murder all the kings and princes in the world, by treachery or how thou wilt, and as soon as thou wouldst unnestle the angels from their cockloft. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • The populace resented what they called the insolence and the treachery of France and the French ambassador was pelted at Canterbury as he drove to the seacoast on his recall. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence
  • In the end, an amazing tale of deceit and treachery is played out between these two men.
  • That would savour of something like treachery, a kind of anti-supporting of your own team.
  • He built a number of pagan temples and was renowned for his cruelty and treachery. Christianity Today
  • Your knowledge of scientific biological transmogrification is only outmatched by your zest for kung-fu treachery! This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film
  • The show reeks with tension, treachery, and posturing to gain favor.
  • I am stunned at their casual treachery to this country, to humanity.
  • Treachery from a party gearing up below White Slab - only to sneak on to Great/Bow ahead of the queue.
  • It wccupies the i'ummit of? conical hill, and is deemed impregn; \bk When Au - rungzebe conquered tlie kingdom of Gol - conda, in 1687, this fortrefs was iaken pofleirion of by treachery. The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the
  • Still we have our limits beyond which we call dissimulation treachery. Romola
  • But vices are necessary to his existence as well as virtues: he is at war with a tribe that may destroy his own; and treachery without scruple, cruelty without remorse, are essential to him; he feels their necessity, and calls them _virtues_! Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete
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  • `Parsifal" became alliterative in his self-condemnation, the words `treachery", `treason", `turncoat" and `traitor" frequently on his lips. LOHENGRIN
  • Pirates like Blackbeard have been feared and fabled for centuries in stories of treachery at sea and buried treasure.
  • Where the dull thunder and the tossing spray warned us from sunken reefs, we heard the harsh challenges of gulls; where the pallid surf twisted in yellow coils of spume above the bar, the singing sands murmured of treachery and secrets of lost souls agasp in the throes of silent undertows. In Search of the Unknown
  • Arthur's treachery was not bruited in court and will not make the newspapers.
  • Some have rushed to suggest he was more popular than his abrasive manner and suspected treachery might suggest. The Sun
  • St. Chrysostom on this occasion made a pathetic discourse on the vanity and treachery of human things, the emptiness and falsehood of which he could not find a word emphatical enough to express. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • Liguori, Burchard, Billuard, Rousselot, Gordon, Gaisson, are put into their hands at an early age -- works which reveal more secrets of impudicity than Aretino has described, or Commodus can have practiced -- works which recommend more craft and treachery and fraud and falsehood than Machiavelli accorded to his misbegotten Saviour of Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • Hamlet incensed, but not knowing the whole of the treachery, in the scuffle exchanged his own innocent weapon for Laertes’ deadly one, and with a thrust of Laertes’ own sword repaid Laertes home, who was thus justly caught in his own treachery. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • The ensuing chase reveals not only more treachery but also a passel of romantic entanglements.
  • But we should not allow him, or his friends, to forget his own personal treachery.
  • His is a tale of jealousy, envy and treachery, but also of motherly love, shrewdness and adventure.
  • I would guess that this is one book that will not become a film despite its interesting locations and a plot that includes treachery and murder. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reason for the rules limiting the use of force to identifiable combatants bearing arms openly is to prevent treachery on the battlefield. The Volokh Conspiracy » House Subcommittee Hearing on Drone Warfare
  • Report Abuse wherever ISLAM is present, so is murder, death, genocide, mayhem, misery, cunning. deceit, treachery, evil and all around ill intent. no good can come from Islam or any Muslim!!! from our experience in India I can see that these Muslim Murderess attacks in Africa or wherever there is a population mix between Islam and Christianity the results are a deadly murderess genocide against the Christians. and the fraudulent world doesn't say a word, but if a Christian or a Hindu fights back to defend themselves and kills Muslims in self defense all the Western countries are totally controlled and run by leftist pieces of $hit governments are up in arms over the loss of Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • It is a fine study of how a good person can come to engage in treachery and deceit for the highest of motives. The Times Literary Supplement
  • That's because the main plot is not the action or the treachery or the historical import, it's the friendship among D'Artagnan and the three Musketeers. Archive 2006-12-01
  • The title centers around American doctor Robert Cath, who boards the Orient Express to escape troubles with the law, only to find himself embroiled in a plot rife with intrigue, treachery, romance, and murder. Kotaku
  • Alcibiades, after a severe blockade (408 B.C.), gained possession of the city through the treachery of the Athenian party; in 405 B.C. it was retaken by Lysander and placed under a Spartan harmost. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • To one suc h as O'Reilly this must betoken treachery or moral collapse. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • The whaler was the swifter of the two ships, and she could soon have overhauled the other; but fearing some treachery, the captain refrained from running her down until daylight. Great Pirate Stories
  • Trick and treachery are the practice if fools,that have not wit enough to be honest.
  • These words uttered, she descends to earth in all her terrors, and calls dolorous Allecto from the home of the Fatal Sisters in nether gloom, whose delight is in woeful wars, in wrath and treachery and evil feuds: hateful to [327-360] lord Pluto himself, hateful and horrible to her hell-born sisters; into so many faces does she turn, so savage the guise of each, so thick and black bristles she with vipers. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • This would be seen as treachery despite the fact that it could be a key step in the revitalisation of the economy on both sides.
  • But within the C.I.A., the exposure of the undercover agent is now considered an even greater instance of treachery.
  • Trick and treachery are the practice if fools,that have not wit enough to be honest.
  • According to John, the most expedient way to destroy tyrants was to beseech God's retribution, but he explicitly sanctioned human dissimulation and treachery when they served the cause.
  • It's striking that the fecklessness of the United Nations and the treachery of the French draw so many yawns from establishment commentators and politicians.
  • The penalty for her treachery was to suffer this torment every waking moment, denying her the calm serenity she craved.
  • It is thus that provincial dilatoriness, which is so freely ridiculed in Paris, is full of treachery, secret stabs, hidden victories and defeats. The Fortune of the Rougons
  • Your knowledge of scientific biological transmogrification is only outmatched by your zest for kung-fu treachery! This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film
  • He was eventually brought to book for his treachery.
  • My big issue is house prices - the root of much that is wrong, not least the inactiveness of the middle-classes in the face of outright treachery. Kneel Before the Tree God
  • The tiny band of Spartans is finally defeated after three days because of treachery, not because they couldn’t outwit, outfight, and outkill the invading enemy. Let the Swords Encircle Me
  • Neither can any thing alleviate the sorrow which justly arises from the loss of the one, or the miseries that often flow from the treachery of the other, but the consideration that life itself is tran - sient. The liberal critic; or, Memoirs of Henry Percy. Conveying a correct estimate of the manners and principles of the present times ..
  • Octavian sought the help of the Senate, only to be met with obstructionism and outright treachery.
  • They have committed treachery and launched their ground offensive. Exploring language (6th edn)
  • Against the backdrop of media frenzy, corporate indifference, political corruption, family treachery, terrorism and judicial callousness, the story unfolds in blazingly sure-penned prose to reveal loyalty, the kindness of strangers, devotion, passion, and friendship. Puppet Child: Summary and book reviews of Puppet Child by Talia Carner.
  • The Sabine king, Tatius, was induced by treachery to settle on the hill which is called the Tarpeian _arx_. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
  • In Islamic folklore, however, they symbolize deceit, treachery, and adultery.
  • Trick and treachery are the practice if fools,that have not wit enough to be honest.
  • It was then openly proposed to withdraw Sherman; and John Hickman, of Pennsylvania, who had been elected as an anti-Lecompton Democrat, but had gone over to the Republicans, took the floor to resist what he characterized as cowardice and treachery. Four years under Marse Robert,
  • Gladiator weds the heroic scope of movies like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Braveheart, and Rob Roy with the serpentine political treachery of I, Claudius.
  • If Leferic misjudged, and his liegemen began plotting treachery in earnest, he would need force to quell them. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
  • This was considered an act of treachery at a time when Britain was experiencing difficulties in North Afrika against Rommel's Afrika Korps.
  • But treachery and mistrust will bring her life into danger. Times, Sunday Times
  • The multitude of methods involved in taking a strongpoint - starving, mining, storming, bombardment, treachery, bribery, ruse and, most usually of all, negotiations - indicate how large a branch of conflict poliorcetics siege warfare is it is also the most important part. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Myths of Medieval Warfare
  • The Fast Runner, the first feature made in the Inuit language, tells an ancient tale of how an evil spirit descended on a tribe, causing a blood feud that involved treachery, adultery, and parricide.
  • Various theories propose that it was the product of paranoid madness, the involuted working of kinship-based rivalries, or a reasoned, rational punishment of treachery.
  • However, they were to face the most chaotic world of deception and treachery that awaits for them.
  • Many of the local double as actors, and twice a week they play out their heritage, s story of love and treachery.
  • It had to be the smuggling, the theft of high-technology, the implications of villainy, even treachery; only then could he move to -- THE LAST RAVEN
  • Lady Macbeth feels that if her husband does not enjoy his royalty, then all of their deceit and treachery has been for nothing.
  • Crook had resigned his post rather than be party to such treachery.
  • That's one of the bad things about being simple-hearted: sometimes you don't even recognize the duplicity and treachery going on around you.
  • This has to be the greatest act of treachery in British History since the archtraitor Vortrgyn soldout the Romano-Celts to the invading Anglo-Saxons 1500 years ago Diogenes On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • The deletion was made from a sense of duty so pure that the delator did not hesitate to confess the sin of his own commission through which he had discovered the treachery of Don Diego and his associates. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
  • The clans of Tokyo's underworld have moved beyond certain rituals of an earlier era, even though they cling to a classic thuggery that involves crime families, turf wars and loyalty that's blind until it turns into clear-sighted treachery. 'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls
  • As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl. Fanny Herself
  • Then indeed his wrath swells; and forced to it by their treachery, while chariot and horses disappear, he calls Jove oft and again to witness, and the altars of the violated treaty, and now at last plunges amid their lines. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • A tale of lust, class, treachery and retribution, Middleton's early 17th-century tragedy (the exact date of composition is disputed) follows the ill-starred loves of three women grappling for autonomy in patriarchal Florence. Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
  • Already on this very day this step of his is put down as one of the greatest acts of treachery in Hungary's history.
  • Fictionalised sections focus with eerie affectlessness on treachery, infidelity, manipulativeness and betrayal. Times, Sunday Times
  • The centuries that followed were full of intrigue and treachery.

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