Could I but see the false, perfidious LENOX, and upbraid him with his cruelty!
What ingenious umbrellas he improvised for me under this inhospitable shed, that grudgingly lent us a perfidious and capricious shelter!
Doubtless you call it a happy combination of forces--I call it a perfidious conspiracy.
He was already not far from the gate of the Palatium, crying out, "We have defeated these perfidious strangers, these dastardly enemies.
Mr. Astor was well aware of the perils to which ships were exposed on this coast from quarrels with the natives, and from perfidious attempts of the latter to surprise and capture them in unguarded moments.
Rose the Interpreter--His Perfidious Character-- His Plots.
All this was attributed by Mr. Hunt and his associates to the perfidious instigations of Rose the interpreter, whom they suspected of the desire to foment ill-will between them and the savages, for the promotion of his nefarious plans.
These were warlike and perfidious in their dispositions; and noted for their attempts to surprise trading ships.
The Baron slept in the arms of his perfidious Mistress, when the Castle-Bell struck 'One.
Her advice was thrown away: Leonella assured her at parting that nothing could make her forget the perfidious Don Christoval.
I hoped that these marks would not escape the vigilance of our Guest, and that He would collect from them the designs of my perfidious Husband.
Disgusted with a perfidious world, in what happy region does Truth conceal herself?
In this I easily recognize Donna Rodolpha's perfidious character.
Our only hope was to reach Strasbourg, which was much nearer than the perfidious Claude had assured me.
At length I understood from a gentleman who dined at our house, that this perfidious wretch was on the point of setting out for London with his bride, to buy clothes for their approaching nuptials.
Hast thou no honour--no conscience--no remorse for thyperfidious conduct towards me?
I curse my perfidious fate for having robbed me of the fair original!
When the probabilities of restoration to your principalities seemed well-nigh certain, you confirmed that promise on learning from Mr. Leslie that he had, however ineffectively, struggled to preserve your heiress from a perfidious snare.
Were it an acknowledged enemy, I could open my arms to him at your bidding; but the perfidious friend!
I so suspect that he has been playing throughout some secret andperfidious part.
I was the perfidious seducer of Nora Avenel,--that I am the callous father of the child who came into the world without a name.
The woman whose remembrance had darkened all the sunshine of his life had loved another; the friend in whom he had confided his whole affectionate loyal soul had been his perfidious rival.
You are lavishing trust and friendship on a perfidious hypocrite.
Through their perfidious insinuations Alexander has permitted the white cockade to be mounted on the capital.
The latter still continued his perfidious machinations; and after endeavouring in vain to get the prince into his power, he found means to disperse the army; and he then openly deserted to Canute with forty vessels.
And how was it he did not feel that by acting thus he joined a perfidious cabal, which was abusing the unhappy Struensee with deceitful hopes of escape, in order to drag from him the means of ruining him more completely?
Hanbury Williams or any other minister to that perfidious Court.
So Reilly took to hanging about; he would pull from his pocket a paper called Hibernia, and Kummc would produce from under the counter a paper called Germania, and the two would denounce "perfidious Albion" by the hour.
The perfidious one had eloped with a young Neapolitan, with whom she had become acquainted in her father's house.
While their cries and disorder announce their terror, the Romans, provoked by their perfidious conduct on the previous day, rush upon the camp.
The perfidious counsels of Abgar led him to prefer the latter.
She will enjoy in secret her revenge on perfidious Albion, which is to say, perfidious Pakenham.
Yes," continued the perfidious Marianne in a patronizing tone, as if she had not heard him, "she is certainly charming!
Cæsar assured him, he was Proof against all the Charms of that Sex; and that if he imagined his Heart could be so perfidiousto love again after Imoinda, he believed he should tear it from his Bosom.
I will indeed confess, that I earnestly rebuke the prevailing vices, in chief that of perfidious bribe-taking, which is in vogue in nearly all courts and countries.
They did it in a manner so violent and unjust, bringing in likewise his publisher Murray, that Lord Byron thought it incumbent on him to send a challenge to the poet laureate, the most perfidious among them all.
Thus caught in a perfidious net, Lord Byron left England for Switzerland.
It was all the more perfidious because it gave an appearance of truth to a great many falsehoods, derived from the truth with which these falsehoods were mixed.
When the wicked Feintise heard the sweet singing of the apple, her grief was excessive, for instead of doing harm to these lovely children, she only did them good by her perfidious counsels.
My Lords, if there were nothing but this to mark the treacherous and perfidious nature of his conduct, this would be sufficient.
Will you permit, that, for the purpose of extorting money, a Governor shall hold out the terrible threat of delivering a tributary prince and his people, bound hand and foot, into the power of their perfidious enemies?
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