Confident in the irresistible strength derived from a great army, the King looked down on malcontents and libellers with a wise disdain; and gave little encouragement to spies and informers.
But the papistical libellers put the most absurd interpretation on the word "natural," as if it was meant to secure the succession for some imaginary bastards by Leicester.
It is affirmed for truth," he says, "that the forms of torture in their severity or rigour of execution have not been such and in such manner performed, as the slanderers and seditious libellers have published.
But the controversial writers of every side in the sixteenth century display a want of decency and humanity which even our anonymous libellers have hardly matched.
If he had fallen in a common slaughter of libellers and blasphemers, I could well believe that nothing more was meant than was pretended.
It was refuted in many keen pamphlets; it was turned into doggrel rhymes; and it was left undefended even by the boldest and most acrimonious libellers among the nonjurors.
He had married the sister of Hugh Speke, one of the falsest and most malignant of the libellers who brought disgrace on the cause of constitutional freedom.
The habitual mendacity of the Jacobite libellers had brought on them an appropriate punishment.
But the libellers of George the Third, of the Princess Mother, and of Lord Bute did not give quarter to a single vowel.
Savage libellers asserted, and some of the superstitious vulgar believed, that calamities so portentous were the consequences of some connection between the unhappy race and the powers of darkness.
Indeed she sometimes expressed her surprise at finding that libellers who respected nothing else respected her name.
It is with reluctance that I enter minutely on a defence of the Queen against two infamous accusations with which libellers have dared to swell their envenomed volumes.
Hence it will be seen that the Gazette de France is a sufficient answer to those libellers who dared to assert that the young Archduchess was acquainted with the Cardinal de Rohan before the period of her marriage.
The "divinity that doth hedge a king" was rudely broken in upon when Jesuit libellers were able to brand the wearer of the crown not only as a usurper but as a profligate and abandoned woman.
It was impossible for a Puritan libeller to bring against the ministers of Elizabeth's reign the charges of drunkenness and immorality which Protestant libellers had been able to bring against the priesthood of Henry's.
His enemies and libellers have asserted, that the first-named of these books was written by M.
But the most remarkable observation is, that so soon as the Irish judges were, in 1782, made by statute independent of the crown, the law of libel became more strictly construed, and libellers more severely punished.
You have always held your libellers so cheap that you actually encourage their assaults.
I declare mylibellers must have more reason than I ever conceded to them.
But that surely must be the very best direction these libellers could give to their malice; for there, at least, the falsehood of their malice must be notorious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "libellers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.