All 10 Uses of
treachery
in
War and Peace
- The alliance with Prussia, Austria's treachery, Bonaparte's new triumph, tomorrow's levee and parade, and the audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts.†
Chpt 2 *
- "It may be treachery," said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, and the glory that awaited him.†
Chpt 2
- "It's not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is just as at Ulm…. it is….†
Chpt 2
- These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless and insignificant people.†
Chpt 4
- These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless and insignificant people.†
Chpt 4
- The conversation was about Speranski—the news of whose sudden exile and alleged treachery had just reached Moscow.†
Chpt 8
- Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes.†
Chpt 9
- The Tsarevich hinted at treachery and demanded a general engagement.†
Chpt 10
- The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country's inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft.†
Chpt 10
- Your excellency, they say they have got ready, according to your orders, to go against the French, and they shouted something about treachery.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(treachery) the behavior of someone who pretends to be a friend and then tricks, cheats, or betrays