How To Use Treasonable In A Sentence
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Mobutu shirts and leopard-print hats are worn openly, a practically treasonable offence only six months ago.
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He was also accused of having supported the Levellers' Agreement of the People and of preaching ‘most seditious and treasonable speeches against the monarchy itself.’
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The second Exclusion Bill was founded, not on his religion, but on his politics, that is, his treasonable connection with the King of France.
Lectures on Modern history
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To be given privileged access to her and to betray it is an almost treasonable crime.
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Giving aid and comfort to the enemy, which WikiLeaks does in the release of this material, is treasonable by any definition.
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Blennerhasset's Island: since the only acts which could be called treasonable had occurred elsewhere, the court declared the evidence insufficient, and there was nothing for the jury to do but to bring him in not guilty.
Formation of the Union, 1750-1829
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She liked to boast that one of her ancestors was private secretary to the Earl of Antrim during His Lordship's treasonable association with Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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Anti-government cartoons in the 1790s often included the most scabrous, even treasonable, representations of King George III.
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The Senate considered this to be a treasonable offence but there was little they could do.
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The main character, Maurice Castle, defects to Moscow and, although this fictional character is vastly different from Philby, I have no doubt that Greene had in mind the treasonable activity of Philby when creating Castle.
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You shall be punished for this treasonable work.
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(as witness Colonel Towneley, Mr. Dawson, and many more unfortunate gentlemen on Kennington Common), to say nothing of the burning alive of women for petty treason, -- and to kill a husband or coin a groat were alike Treasonable, -- the Scourging of the same wretched creatures in
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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All of us who have shared the triumphs of Grand Slams and Five Nations' championships had harboured deep inside ourselves the possibly treasonable thought that perhaps we might never exult again.
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In this we do not wish to be understood that all men who have heretofore voted the "unterrified" ticket, have knowingly and willingly given aid and comfort to the treasonable plans and purposes of their leaders, for our personal acquaintance among that class of anti-administration men, is sufficient to enable us to say, with confidence, that many of them are as loyal at heart as any man who ever breathed the air of an American freeman.
The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details
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How could you dispute what's plain law, man?" said Saddletree, somewhat contemptuously; "there's no a callant that e'er carried a pock wi 'a process in't, but will tell you that perduellion is the warst and maist virulent kind of treason, being an open convocating of the king's lieges against his authority (mair especially in arms, and by touk of drum, to baith whilk accessories my een and lugs bore witness), and muckle worse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose -- It winna bear a dispute, neighbour.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
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Those words would have been called treasonable to the people of France.
I Will Repay
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a rebel, his wife Antonina, who enjoyed the secret confidence of the empress, communicated his feigned discontent to Euphemia, the daughter of the praefect; the credulous virgin imparted to her father the dangerous project, and John, who might have known the value of oaths and promises, was tempted to accept a nocturnal, and almost treasonable, interview with the wife of Belisarius.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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This is not yet treasonable talk, though it verged close enough for Eliot to be sent to the Tower.
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First, it shows his consciousness that his "position" as a Senator of the United States demanded a prompt discountenance and denunciation of the treasonable scheme.
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Appear promptly at the palace at ten o'clock to answer to the followin 'charges, to wit: breach of the peace; seditious and treasonable utterance; violent assault on the chief magistrate with intent to cut, wound, maim, an' bruise; breach of quarantine; violation of harbour regulations; and gross breakage of custom house rules.
THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
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In committing himself to this policy he risked accusations of treasonable relations with the enemy, and so risked his life.
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Grand Master the Duke of Cumberland, what must be called a treasonable conspiracy through the Orange lodges and even through Orangemen who were actually serving in the King's Army.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
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He proceeded to Ireland, where his ambitious schemes were distrusted and discountenanced by Elizabeth, then escaped to Spain, having been in treasonable correspondence with Philip II.
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Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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But to come back to Tacitus for a second - he shows the other side, the treasonable side of the clerks of the Roman Empire.
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The 1614 Synod was significant for another reason in that it upheld the view by then traditional in Catholic theology, that treasonable activity against the state was inadmissible for Catholics.
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They were brought to trial for treasonable conspiracy.
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The 1807 trial, presided over by Chief Justice John Marshall in the U.S. Circuit Court in Richmond, Virginia, ended with Burr's acquittal on the grounds that he had not committed overt treasonable acts.
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All those who were in any manner connected with the contemplated expedition disclaimed the idea of treasonable designs, averring that, if such were the views of Colonel Burr, they had been deceived.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr
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He had access to top-secret Allied intelligence intercepts of German radio traffic which - in a treasonable breach of security - he passed direct to the Soviet High Command.
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With Maguire the treasonable act of rebellion itself was less in dispute than the questions how, where and before whom it could be tried.
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The church was further bolstered in 1563 when another Act of Uniformity made refusal to take the oath, or the defence of papal authority, a treasonable offence.
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Government alleged that these persons had been engaged in treasonable conspiracies, and, the President having exercised his legitimate right in suspending the Habeas Corpus Act, he was not prepared to say that the detention of those persons was illegal, or demanded more decided
Imperial Parliament
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Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable.
The Worldly Philosophers
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Since then, I have made it my business to establish contacts and relationships in Beijing that would be called treasonable, and for which I should be shot.
Quiller Bamboo
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And as for the crime of holding treasonable correspondence with those lying overseas, they should never have taken it off the statute book.
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The secretary considered the question for a second, carefully weighing whether the answer could in any way be deemed treasonable.
WALL GAMES
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On the Allied side it became a synonym for treasonable or hostile activity, so that to call people collaborators was to express strong disapproval for their actions.
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The unfortunate plant-cutters, who had merely been imprisoned, and such of them dismissed from time to time as would give assurance of penitence, and promise a peaceable demeanor, were now proceeded against with the utmost rigor, for what the king was pleased to call their treasonable conduct.
Historical collections of Virginia
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The long title is ‘An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts’.
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Saddletree, somewhat contemptuously; ` ` there's no a callant that e'er carried a pock wi 'a process in't, but will tell you that perduellion is the warst and maist virulent kind of treason, being an open convocating of the king's lieges against his authority (mair especially in arms, and by touk of drum, to baith whilk accessories my een and lugs bore witness), and muckle worse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose --- It winna bear a dispute, neighbour.' '
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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Fortunately, Florida land speculation is no longer considered a treasonable offense.
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The entries confirm in every particular the statements of Truxton, Bollman, and others, and repudiate the idea of treasonable designs.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr