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  • Apostles and Apostates  (source)
  • Then would come "England," and finally, ultimately, the largest compound in the despised, isolated, illusionist Novgorod, where he would leave his triumphant message-the "United States of America," breeder of the apostate assassin Jason Bourne.†  (source)
    apostate = someone who abandoned their religion or separated from others with whom they used to share firmly held beliefs
  • "An insurgent who was previously a Muslim is now an apostate," they declared.†  (source)
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  • They walked along the electrified fence past a warning sign graffiti'd by a protester or some apostate working slyly in the Pocket.†  (source)
    apostate = someone who abandoned their religion or separated from others with whom they used to share firmly held beliefs
  • Like apostates who feared to bum the Cross, they hesitated between the instinctive and the material; and Peters, caught in the same polarity, must give them' comfort and destroy their pride.†  (source)
  • Not the son of a Kurdish soldier of fortune who united the Arab world and reclaimed Jerusalem from the Crusaders, but the Saladin who in the span of a few days had shed infidel and apostate blood in Paris and Amsterdam.†  (source)
  • In the present age men are not very ready to die in defence of their opinions, but they are rarely inclined to change them; and there are fewer martyrs as well as fewer apostates.†  (source)
  • Writing from Paris, Paine called Washington a creature of "grossest adulation," a man incapable of friendship, "a hypocrite in public life," apostate and impostor.†  (source)
  • In the eyes of the Muslim extremists, they were apostates.†  (source)
  • Nine out of twenty-two Democratic papers in the state are unbounded in vilifying him with such epithets as traitor, apostate, scoundrel, barn burner, abolitionist and free-soiler ....I am afraid Benton will be defeated.†  (source)
  • Then, in the line that caused the stir, Jefferson wrote: It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to those heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.†  (source)
  • Ha-ha—I'm awfully glad you have made an apostate of me all the same!†  (source)
  • Charles Sumner, who would be elevated to the Senate upon his departure, enrolled the name of Webster on "the dark list of apostates.†  (source)
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