When they were accomplished, he went back to Britain with his bride, a strong band of Scots being told to follow close behind, that he might have its help against the diverse treacheries in his path.
The king, as before, was strengthened against thesetreacheries by Thorkill, and rejected this feint of kindly service; he excused himself from accepting it on the plea that he must hasten on his journey.
Because through all the numbing darkness, the anguish, futility and death, its single jewel shone hard and clear and perfect, untouched by the ravages of time, or the treacheries of men.
Well it don't sound such a sure thing to me," rumbled Ballard, whose one thought amidst the closing web of treacheries was to have his way with the girl, possibly even steal her away.
And yet for no greater crime than being primitive, and unable to defend themselves against the weapons and treacheries of Europe, they were sold into a bondage from which there was no escape, ending only in death.
It opens opportunities for treacheriesand hypocrisies.
As I have said, it is impossible to admire him, but no one can think of his fate and the treacheries of which he was a victim without being touched by his miseries.
He was not so cruel as Pedrarias, but he was {108} ruthless enough and his fame is forever stained by atrocities and treacheries from which no personal or public success can redeem it.
Now, her black treacheries have cast a foul aspersion on her whole sex.
How he hated this monstrous city of Doom, infernal mother of treacheriesand spoils!
And while hewing and consolidating and bringing his kingdom into form, whether by treacheries or intrigues or assassination, this converted Frank was not alone defender of the faith, but of the orthodox faith.
At all events, whatever the explanation, a religious war was at hand which was going to stain the fair name of France more even than the treacheries of her civil war.
The play differs slightly from the other plays, which deal, as we have said, with the treacheriescaused by obsessions.
He was an old soldier, and well acquainted with all the machinations and treacheries practised in this country between inveterate enemies.
Yet he was still king, and nobody was more ready to give him the title than [Pg083] Hugh of Paris himself, though the diplomatic treacheries went on as usual.
But this was the fulfilment; this contained the essence of all treacheries that had been and that were to be; this explained the principle and author of them.
Brief Discourse of many Dangers by Fire, and other Treacheries of the Javanese.
A brief Discourse of many Dangers by Fire, and other Treacheries of the Javanese.
And she had no word of reproach for this poor wretch who had wrought day and night with deceits and treacheries and hypocrisies to betray her to her death.
You seem to have left off railing against nature and Providence, and the treacheriesof life; remember what you said about the new world!
She was, then, on the eve of marrying some man in whose interest, or through whom, all these foul treacheries had been practised.
But he and they have long been in a state of war: menaces, submissions, and treacheries have followed each other fast, and he has no reason to complain if their demands are raised.
A heart of steel or of diamond, say the ancients, he must have had who first boldly launched himself upon the [waters of the] gulfs, so many perils did they conceive of an element which has as many treacheries as waves.
All this they do in order to hide themselves and be free from the frequent invasions of the Moros; and from the stratagems and treacheries of their own countrymen, who are inclined to vengeance and perfidy.
Let no man who has not tried to cover at speed the ribbed treacheries of a railroad track minimize the achievement!
Io: but, as she spoke, the memory of other treacheries overwhelmed her.
Nothing would pass that day, that was certain, for Torode would imagine Sercq buzzing with the news of his treacheries and bursting to set Peter Port on him.
The news of his treacheries and uprooting was bound to get there before long.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treacheries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
