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Example sentences for "treasonable"

Lexicographically close words:
treadles; treadmill; treadmills; treads; treason; treasonous; treasons; treasure; treasured; treasurer
  1. Not to speak of what goes on in private, we learn that in the public squares and in coffee houses, the most outrageous, the most treasonable conversations, take place.

  2. The charge against Nuñez was that of being engaged in a treasonable conspiracy to throw off the king’s authority and to assume an independent sway on the borders of the Pacific.

  3. Arguello was now arrested; but the governor, being fully convinced of Nuñez’ treasonable intentions, thought it necessary to have recourse to stratagem to get the latter within his power.

  4. Were there not, Mr. Waverley, treasonable tracts and pamphlets among them?

  5. It is said that a treasonable toast having been proposed in your hearing and presence, you, holding his Majesty's commission, suffered the task of resenting it to devolve upon another gentleman of the company.

  6. Letters were shown me which I was said to have written, full of treasonable matter.

  7. By taking care to treat each of the charges as in itself a treasonable offence it was the more easy to justify a sentence of high treason by the whole.

  8. Police had just taken one of the shopmen in custody, for vending an alleged seditious or treasonable publication, upon the information of a Yeoman in the pay of the Bridge Street Gang.

  9. The whole family have been tried and convicted of selling treasonable or seditious works, and are now suffering the sentence of the law.

  10. All knew that the infamous Alexis would shrink from no crime, and there was ample evidence of his treasonable plots.

  11. They could shoot him down without the slightest risk to themselves, and shoot him down he knew they would, and that without a moment's hesitation, once they became aware that he had discovered their perilous because treasonable secret.

  12. I once more assure you, that I know of no treasonable correspondence whatsoever; and firm in my own innocence, I equally despise all attempts to bribe or to intimidate me.

  13. He has excited treasonable insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the Struck out.

  14. Later on, from the entanglements of a son in alleged treasonable practices, he had to sue for and obtained pardon from King James II.

  15. Persians at Marathon, but, whatever the truth of this may be, there can be little doubt that they were not the only one of the great Athenian families to make treasonable overtures to Persia.

  16. But I have, say you, written a treasonable book against the regiment and empire of women.

  17. The writing of that book I will not deny; but prove it treasonable I think it shall be hard.

  18. That person came forward: "Relate all you know in the conduct of the prisoner Stephens that may be regarded as treasonable and criminal.

  19. The bill of indictment against the Medici accused them of sedition in the year 1378--that is, in the year of the Ciompi Tumult--and of treasonable practice during the whole course of the Albizzi administration.

  20. Son after son, brother with brother, they continued to be fierce and valiant soldiers, cruel in peace, hardy in war, but treasonable and suspicious in all transactions that could not be settled by the sword.

  21. Finding that the king lent a ready ear to suggestions of this kind, they soon furnished him with an overwhelming mass of evidence of the treasonable designs of Philotas.

  22. Perpenna encouraged this feeling, being urged by the empty pride of high birth to aspire to the supreme command, and he secretly held treasonable language to those who were favourable to his designs.

  23. The squire took no pains to conceal his treasonable sentiments, though the whole town was in a blaze of patriotic excitement.

  24. The mail bag which was on board contained a great many letters from traitors in Baltimore, some of whom were exposed by the capture of their treasonable correspondence.

  25. But the instructions were clearly treasonable in character.

  26. In fact the whole country was sown with spies, and there was not much difficulty in obtaining information of treasonable speeches, when hasty expressions of discontent counted for treason.

  27. Ryerson added: There is no mistaking the revolutionary and treasonable character of this advice given to Canadians through Mr. W.

  28. The District Attorney's voice, deliberate and full, asked a question, and General Eaton proceeded to give in detail Colonel Burr's expression of treasonable intentions.

  29. Consternation fell upon all the assembly at the sound of the treasonable strains; everybody looked at everybody else, wondering what the playing of a Jacobite air in the presence of the King might presage.

  30. The treasonable melody ceased, and the loyal strains of the national anthem saluted the royal ears.

  31. You may rot in a ditch if you will, or worse if treasonable actions be brought home to you.

  32. He made a leg and pulled off his cap, and at that there was a rustle of astonishment, for it had been held treasonable to cap the Lady Mary.

  33. Cromwell hath contrived that you should write a treasonable letter; Gardiner holdeth that letter's self.

  34. He let his words rankle for a time, then he said softly: 'Privy Seal's words before his armoury were as treasonable as Gilmaw's on the market road.

  35. The magister had been put in the Lady Mary's household by the Lord Privy Seal, and he had a piece of news as to the Lady's means of treasonable correspondence with the Emperor her uncle.

  36. Will you carry this treasonable letter or no?


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treasonable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apostate; breakaway; degenerate; disloyal; extreme; factious; faithless; insurgent; insurrectionary; mutinous; perfidious; rebel; rebellious; recreant; renegade; revolutionary; riotous; seditious; subversive; traitorous; treasonable; turbulent; turncoat