Judged by that history the treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, is sanctified as a duty, will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
The charge was supposed to be high treason and Mr. Richard O'Gorman wrote to me to inquire what I wished to have done in my behalf.
But a point of great importance was raised by his counsel, as to the publisher's intention to commit the felony, which they insisted should be proved, to bring his case within the provision of the Treason Felony Act.
Juries were empanelled in each case, from whose prejudice and bad faith verdicts for high treason were expected, even though the evidence only sustained a charge of common assault.
Mitchel's arrest under the Treason Felony Act was not unexpected.
But one feeling of fear lingered with me: it was lest Parker should addtreason to cowardice, which certain ominous expressions that were said to fall from him, confirmed.
Idolatry is either a defiance or a forgetfulness of God,--high treason to the majesty of Heaven, entailing the direst calamities.
Refusal to appear would be regarded as treason and rebellion.
Licinius Crassus Frugi was accused of treasonto Nero by Aquilius Regulus, an informer, whom one of Pliny's friends calls 'the vilest of bipeds'.
He was so 28 overcome by the magnitude of this unexpected crime and so afraid that the treason was widespread in the camp, and that he might be killed if he offered any opposition, that he led most people to suppose he was in the plot.
Drawing his dagger he faced the armed assassins, flinging their treason in their teeth, and by his shouts and gestures turned their attention upon himself, thus enabling Piso to escape despite his wounds.
So, as the disloyal were ready for treason and the loyal shut their eyes, they at first determined to acclaim Otho as he was returning from dinner on the night of the fourteenth.
Antonius has been suspected of delaying treacherously after receiving a secret communication from Vitellius, offering him as the price of treason the consulship, his young daughter, and a rich dowry.
For so unpopular was the law of treason that it sapped the force of better statutes.
His design was as a matter of fact detected and quashed, but, though the ringleader was removed, many of the troops still felt conscious of their treason and could be heard commenting on Galba's senility and avarice.
You will soon see this lawless spirit spreading to the troops abroad, and in time the treason will recoil on us and the war on you.
The infection of treason soon spread to the legions and 26 auxiliaries, whose excitement had been aroused as soon as they heard that the armies of Germany were wavering in their allegiance.
On January 15, as Galba was sacrificing in front of the temple of 27 Apollo, the priest Umbricius declared the omens unfavourable: treason was impending, and an enemy within the walls.
The Vitellians too, were only ten miles away, and they had hopes of negotiating treason with them.
Monsieur thinks I have inferred moretreason than he has spoken,' said Madame de Rambouillet gaily.
This implied censure of King Charles so displeased my mother that she declared that she would listen to such treason no longer, started up and quitted the room, calling Annora with her.
Messieus les Prince de Conde and Conty, and the Duke of Longueville, are all arrested, coming from the council, by the treason of the Cardinal.
What treason hath Mark Fytton, the butcher, been talking?
I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we must not affect to prescribe.
Treason came up, hideous, fit only to be huddled into its dishonorable grave.
Roman proconsul of Africa, Boniface, unjustly accused of treason by the Roman government, in his straits called in the aid of the Vandals.
Meanwhile the government pronounced on his rival De Cock, who avoided a trial for high treason by flight, a sentence of perpetual exile.
But he eluded inquiry by flight to France, and as guilty of high treason was sentenced to death, which did not prevent him from his exile unweariedly fanning the flames of rebellion.
The Taborites regarded this as shameful treason to the cause of truth, and continued the conflict.
Viscount =Bolingbroke=, statesman, charged with high treason and pardoned, died A.
I would not have sent to Redware to fetch her, but finding thee and her in my house at midnight, it would be plain treason to set such enemies at liberty.
For was it not thus that conspiracy andtreason walked?
It is no treason to tell thee that general Fairfax is about to send his final summons ere he storm the rampart.
To allow him to pass unchallenged would be treason against both her host and her king.
An one to the oath should drive me, on thine head were I fain to swear, That never a darker treason was wrought by a man so fair.
Nay, ever the fire of my anger doth kindle and flame anew, 5 And the sorrow her treason wrought me, it grieveth me still I trow!
Methinks it would better fit thee to welcome such guests as came, Who have heard the tale of thy sorrow, than to rob them of goods and gold; 'Twould better beseem my master as treason such deed to hold!
Yet such treasonwere far from me, 415 Tho' his folk bring such charge against me; and dear to my heart was he, Far dearer than they e'er held him.
Tho' hasty the prince they counselled a prisoner to make his lord, His host had he been, and such treason of a true knight were aye abhorred.
To which Johnson replied: "Treason is a crime and crime must be punished.
Treason must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished.
Treason should be made odious, and traitors must be punished and impoverished.
The States cannot commit treason nor screen individual citizens who may have committed treason any more than they can make valid treaties or engage in lawful commerce with any foreign power.
The reconstructionists say that they are making treason odious and are scouring the land for distinguished examples.
Vain delusion; as if there could be treason under that flag; or traitors lurking in its shadows like mad Malays!
All remonstrances, entreaties, resistances were stifled by the cry of treason and disloyalty and by the hollow pretence that the plunderers were persecuted because of their loyalty to the Union.
But," said its authors, "treason must be made odious, and the late insurrectionary States must feel that there is a higher law than that promulgated by their ordinances of secession.
Wringing their hands in an agony of distress, they demanded to know the cause of the arrest, and were informed that Robert had been accused of treason to the governor and must be committed to jail.
On either side there was a provocation, a challenge, the declaration of a savage war, of a duel in which ordinary laws were invalid, wheretreason and treachery were admitted means.
By this wedge did you separate the cleverer of the wage-workers from the mass of them and dignify treason to humanity by the name of ambition.
The evidence adduced has never been sufficient to satisfy Western scholars, although the Japanese would consider it almost treason to disbelieve in him.
Until treason is fairly rooted out at home and abroad, and until Union at the centre for the people everywhere is fully enforced, this war can only be concluded now, to be renewed in tenfold horror to-morrow.
That is, its properties are alike in every direction.
Its line of motion when free is always at right angles to the plane of the ring.
Thus, a mere knight did not incur penalty of treason by taking arms against the king by order of the rich-man to whom he paid homage.
The most prominent feature of that sad period is its falseness and deceit: never did history register so many acts of treason and perfidy.
The rebellion of his nobles, the treason of his mother and friends, the humiliation he had suffered, had wrought a marked change in the still plastic character of the young sovereign.
The surrender, and particularly the fact that his life was spared while his generals and many of his officers and men were hanged or shot, led, perhaps naturally, to his being accused of treason by public opinion of his countrymen.
When, therefore, John Ruthven succeeded to the earldom while still a child, he inherited along with his vast estates family traditions of treason and intrigue.
They escape by night disguised as monks, whilst Abdelazer alarms the castle with cries of treason and tells the King that Philip and the Cardinal are plotting to murder him.
Colonel, 'tis Treason but to name Orsames, and much more to wish he were as King.
It shows that even among the candidates of the same party, he who is most devoted to the Union and most opposed to treason can receive most of the people's votes.
Treason was flagrant in the revenue and in the post-office service, as well as in the Territorial governments and in the Indian reserves.
At the beginning they knew they could never raise their treason to any respectable magnitude by any name which implies violation of law.
Again, this act in rem forfeits property for the ingredients of treason without a conviction of the supposed criminal, or a personal hearing given him in any proceeding.
To all persons who shall be so released, and who shall keep their parole, the President grants an amnesty for any past offences of treason or disloyalty which they may have comminuted.
Disloyalty before unsuspected suddenly became bold, and treason astonished the world by bringing at once into the field military forces superior in number to the standing army of the United States.
France, thou shalt rue thistreason with thy tears, If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge, For treason executed in our late king's days?
And by his treason stand'st not thou attainted, Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?
Though tyranny and misgovernment had been conclusively proved against the Earl, the technical proof of treason was weak.
He was still resolute to retort the charge of treason on his foes, and "offered to speak, but was commanded to be gone without a word.
Ceremonies which in an hour of triumph he might have regarded as solaces to weak brethren, he looked on as acts of treason in this hour of defeat.
Every person committed for felony or treason was entitled to be released on bail unless indicted at the next session of gaol-delivery after his commitment, and to be discharged if not indicted at the sessions which followed.
But he was now brought to trial on the charge of treason against a king, "kept out of his royal authority by traitors and rebels," and his spirited defence served as an excuse for his execution.
Every prisoner committed for any crime save treason or felony was declared entitled to his writ even in the vacations of the courts, and heavy penalties were enforced on judges or gaolers who refused him this right.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treason" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
