A laxity of principle, without which no public man can be eminent or even safe, becomes too common to be scandalous; and the whole nation looks coolly on instances of apostasy which would startle the foulest turncoat of more settled times.
Mole annihilated the twenty campaigns of the turncoatwith a well turned phrase.
And the Traitress, her sister Judah, saw it: yea, saw that even because the Turncoat Israel had committed adultery, I put her away.
And Iahvah said unto me, The Turncoat or Recreant Israel hath proven herself more righteous than the Traitress Judah.
No turncoat could win me--I'd love him more on his own side yonder threefold wall, with his convictions, than on my side without them.
This Count of the First Empire became a Peer of France under the Restoration, and figures as a brilliant instance of a successful turncoat in the Dictionnaire des Girouettes.
I have no faith in these turncoat constitutionalists.
She really believed him capable of redressing the monarchy, and he certainly was the only one of the turncoat constitutionalists in whom she placed any confidence.
BY a friend of Sir Turncoat 'twas lately averr'd, The electors would find him as good as his word!
If he has once been a turncoat, he will be a turncoat again.
Sometimes he resorted to other plants, and then his uniform took the tint of their flowers, a fact which gave him the popular name of Turncoat Tom.
AN] As Barck had clambered upon the daisy unthinking of danger, Turncoat Tom had struck him on the head, and the mariner, quite off his guard, was knocked to the ground.
