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  • It was treason.†   (source)
  • Committed treason.†   (source)
  • In fact, she realized with a grimace, she'd be lucky if she weren't accused of treason and magic-using.†   (source)
  • They felt that using analytical physics to support religious principles was a treason against science.†   (source)
  • The accusation is treason either way.†   (source)
  • Tried for treason, convicted—and killed.†   (source)
  • Right now it's treason.†   (source)
  • To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason.†   (source)
  • But that is treason!†   (source)
  • Sir, those words sound like treason.†   (source)
  • Like Old King Celon when he thought his regent was going to expose him for treason.†   (source)
  • The penalty for treason is death.†   (source)
  • Nor can we write it off as insanity, which is what the defense counsel did at his trial for treason (he was charged with broadcasting for the enemy).†   (source)
  • All of the American leaders have committed treason against the King.†   (source)
  • Treason.†   (source)
  • "Treason," he snarled.†   (source)
  • I will not have treason spoken in my house, Sam.†   (source)
  • Treason grows but for kind man.†   (source)
  • Such behavior, the journal said, "would be called treason in countries less enlightened and more arbitrary than ours."†   (source)
  • There are many paths to treason.†   (source)
  • Two days later, Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, accused of high treason, was condemned to death.†   (source)
  • Dare the Emperor charge me with treason before a full Landsraad Council?†   (source)
  • Treason, the both of you.†   (source)
  • According to his dossier, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov had been sentenced for high treason.†   (source)
  • The military were a breed apart, brothers who spoke a different dialect from the civilians and with whom any attempt at dialogue would be a conversation of the deaf, because the slightest dissent was considered treason in their rigid honor code.†   (source)
  • Twice, after being asked serious questions about whether he's committed treason, he's going to smirk.†   (source)
  • That's treason, Cass.†   (source)
  • All were charged with the crime of treason, a crime punishable by death.†   (source)
  • She'd been Confined for treason, but the truth was far worse than anyone could've imagined.†   (source)
  • Ghosh was faced with a conundrum: How did one treat a soldier, an executioner, who now was engaged in treason against the Emperor?†   (source)
  • "I call this treason," Weaver said.†   (source)
  • When the Lightwoods and the other Circle members were tried for treason against the Clave, the Penhallows voted for leniency.†   (source)
  • Which, of course, is treason on my part, both as a son to my father and as a citizen of my country.†   (source)
  • "Where I come from," the snake girl said, "the punishment for treason is being covered in honey, bound to an open boat, and floated out into a stagnant pond.†   (source)
  • Is Yearling Barrius guilty of treason?†   (source)
  • By renouncing their allegiance to the King, the delegates at Philadelphia had committed treason and embarked on a course from which there could be no turning back.†   (source)
  • One day he had stumbled while marching to class; the next day he was formally charged with 'breaking ranks while in formation, felonious assault, indiscriminate behavior, mopery, high treason, provoking, being a smart guy, listening to classical music and so on'.†   (source)
  • In all the long wars with the Dark Tower treason has ever been our greatest foe.†   (source)
  • Treason against humanity by one of our own!†   (source)
  • In Cuthbert's eyes Roland saw that Hax would die for his treason as a viper dies in a pit.†   (source)
  • Damn it, man, that's treason in my book!†   (source)
  • The ultimate treason was in Villiers' house.†   (source)
  • "You should really try one of these cookies," she said, holding out a chocolate-chip chunk of treason.†   (source)
  • Why would you risk treason for a mud fight?†   (source)
  • Is you ready to commit treason?†   (source)
  • "If anyone proposes another match race between these two super horses," wrote a reporter after the race, "henceforth, he will be tried in the morning for treason, mutiny, mopery and non compos mentis."†   (source)
  • Your President pardoned me of our treason, you know.†   (source)
  • He used the threat of imprisonment for life, for treason, if Bjurman were to breathe so much as one syllable about Zalachenko, and at the same time he offered inducements, promises of future assignments, and finally he used flattery to bolster Bjurman's feeling of importance.†   (source)
  • He had not shed a tear when his brother was court-martialed for treason.†   (source)
  • No. Some day, you'll know what treason I'm committing right now, but ....Don't ever buy any d'Anconia Copper stock.†   (source)
  • Let's say for treason.†   (source)
  • The man you see before you has been accused of the high crime of treason.†   (source)
  • Everyone spoke of it like murder or treason, with fascination and revulsion.†   (source)
  • As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."†   (source)
  • Treason: Definition, Punishment†   (source)
  • Given that the Horvath have ordered you he delivered to them, there is a warrant out for your arrest for high treason and you are under continual threat, isn't this just a little risky?†   (source)
  • Arlian and Erimon and a dozen more he executed for treason on a false charge.†   (source)
  • They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the bestplanned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.†   (source)
  • The theme of punishment for treason became more prevalent as the war dragged on.†   (source)
  • When he fired his carbine to miss he was committing treason against his unit, and he didn't care.†   (source)
  • As a result of what would always be known as the Jerry rescue, twenty-four eminently respectable citizens of Syracuse ( including Reverend J. W. Loguen, Samuel May, Charles Wheaton) and Gerrit Smith, who was visiting the city, were arrested and charged with "constructive treason."†   (source)
  • Back to Squamuglia, where Vittorio, the Duke's courier, reports how Niccolo has been talking treason.†   (source)
  • Part of this reluctance was no doubt due to the thought that, by discarding the accepted concepts of wolf nature, I would be committing scientific treason; part of it to the knowledge that recognition of the truth would deprive my mission of its fine aura of danger and high adventure; and not the least part of that reluctance was probably due to my unwillingness to accept the fact that I had been made to look like a blithering idiot — not by my fellow man, but by mere brute beasts.†   (source)
  • Significantly, this was considered high treason.†   (source)
  • We lost Vicksburg because Pemberton gave Bragg five thousand of his cavalry and Loring, whom I knew personally for a nincompoop before you were born, marched away from Champion's Hill with enough men to have held them, we lost Vicksburg by stupidity verging on treason.†   (source)
  • Since he once had commanded a carrier task force, and never had been a submariner, the carrier admirals regarded his stand as just short of treason.†   (source)
  • MORE Margaret, I'll not have you talk treason....And I'll not have you repeat lawyer's gossip.†   (source)
  • What I'm after are the proofs and the documents—yes, proof positive of your treason.†   (source)
  • It was when he returned to the Inn that he was given a notice to paste on the saloon mirror saying that the trial of Aaron Burr for treason would be held at the end of the month at Washington, capital of Mississippi Territory, on the campus of Jefferson College, where the crowds might be amply accommodated.†   (source)
  • Mr. Webster's elaborate treason has done more than anything else to break down the North.†   (source)
  • Her behavior was treasonous.
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ous" in treasonous means full of. This is the same pattern you see in words like dangerous, poisonous, and humorous.
  • He has more than enough information to turn me in for treason.†   (source)
    treason = an act of betrayal
  • Lord Janos Slynt was bellowing about turricloaks and treason, Iron Emmett stood on a table with a naked sword in his fist, Three-Finger Hobb was cursing a ranger from the Shadow Tower ...some Eastwatch man slammed his fist onto the table again and again, demanding quiet, but all that did was add to the din echoing off the vaulted ceiling.†   (source)
  • Rumor says the Augurs can read minds, and the things in my head are enough to take me straight to the gallows for treason.†   (source)
  • That would be treason.†   (source)
  • These offenses are treason to the royal family!†   (source)
  • He lumped all change together, calling it treason before inspecting it.†   (source)
  • I could have you arrested for treason, have you shot for it even.†   (source)
  • Whatever the answer, he had paid for his treason with his life.†   (source)
  • They were out of reach, safe with the aliens, but to the Radchaai they were guilty of treason.†   (source)
  • You weren't plotting treason in your dreams, were you?†   (source)
  • If anyone had any idea what I'd done ... It was treason.†   (source)
  • "Father—" "I will not have subversion, I will not have treason in my house.†   (source)
  • The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands.†   (source)
  • Treason is the highest offense under English law, worse than murder.†   (source)
  • "It's the Emperor's sincere hope he'll never have to charge you with treason," the Count said.†   (source)
  • I won't do any treason, I'll be good, I swear it, I don't have traitor's blood, I don't.†   (source)
  • She may lose her job because of familial association with treason.†   (source)
  • And there was only one way the palace dealt with treason.†   (source)
  • The word of your lord father's treason will no doubt reach them soon.†   (source)
  • 'Senate Aide Convicted of Treason: Senator Donaldson Professes No Knowledge of Aide's Action.'†   (source)
  • The Assembly had declared that it was treason to pray for them.†   (source)
  • You cannot guarantee Parliament would rule treason.†   (source)
  • Lord Baelish, what you suggest is treason.†   (source)
  • In my house I will decide what constitutes treason.†   (source)
  • I have not even suggested that treason might be involved.†   (source)
  • And what is the punishment for treason, my friends?†   (source)
  • "Treason is a noxious weed," Pycelle declared solemnly.†   (source)
  • "She says Father conspired at treason with the king's brothers," he read.†   (source)
  • They gave his place to that black dog Clegane, and now Selmy's wanted for treason.†   (source)
  • "And now the treason moves from words to deeds," Cersei said.†   (source)
  • So long as I am your king, treason shall never go unpunished.†   (source)
  • "Treason is treason," Pycelle replied at once.†   (source)
  • She is a sweet thing now, but in ten years, who can say what treasons she may hatch?†   (source)
  • Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous as the treason of Isengard.†   (source)
  • The Hound sits at your right hand and you have the impudence to deny Rowan's treason!†   (source)
  • I begin to think she owes her throne to the very barons she suspects of treason.†   (source)
  • The punishment for treason, as every member of Congress knew, was death by hanging.†   (source)
  • Aiding him in any way would be seen as treason.†   (source)
  • In which case, you might find yourself arrested for treason.†   (source)
  • For treason against the gods, they will face eternal punishment.†   (source)
  • And yet to keep it to myself is surely treason.†   (source)
  • That's treason!" gasped an elderly woman who taught in the Languages department.†   (source)
  • "It's not really treason anyway," says Dum.†   (source)
  • But it's treason, ruin, disloyalty, selfishness and big-business propaganda!†   (source)
  • The treason trial continued for another nine months and finally ended on March 29, 1961.†   (source)
  • Louis XVI, stripped of all power, was to go on trial for treason.†   (source)
  • You can't throw away your life— Saving myself is treason.†   (source)
  • Treason, sedition, malfeasance, and if that weren't enough, now insubordination.†   (source)
  • If their treason be suffered to take root, much mischief must grow from it.†   (source)
  • Once I am wed it will be high treason to desire me.†   (source)
  • But if she has committed treason—" I don't want to hear this!†   (source)
  • I will pardon you for your treason, as I have pardoned these lords you see behind me.†   (source)
  • I said to Gwaihir, for the treason of Saruman had shaken my faith.†   (source)
  • The Presidential power of pardoning has only been questioned in relation to the crime of treason.†   (source)
  • It hardly mattered in the end, because either way it was definitely the face of treason.†   (source)
  • If Rowan had committed the treasons of which you speak, I might be more amenable to your terms.†   (source)
  • "Is this open treason, Dwarf?" asked the King.†   (source)
  • I hereby put forward a motion to try Clarke Griffin for the crime of accessory to treason.†   (source)
  • Colonel Stig Wennerström of the Swedish air force was convicted of treason in 1964.†   (source)
  • Osney Kettleblack is guilty of treason and murder, and the wages of treason are death.†   (source)
  • Or if you're convicted of treason, you get lethal injection.†   (source)
  • If you don't take it ...well, I have orders to bring Reyna in alive to stand trial for treason.†   (source)
  • The Ethiopian Herald never wrote about treason, as if it were treasonable to report treason.†   (source)
  • Treason was—" His father waved a hand curtly.†   (source)
  • What you propose is nothing less than treason.†   (source)
  • Just as importantly, they weren't conspiring with the Horde, which would be treason.†   (source)
  • I'll not be shamed because some witchcraft or treason has frozen both your bloods.†   (source)
  • The governor of New York can pardon even impeachment, except for treason and murder.†   (source)
  • What he had done here in Canada was plain treason.†   (source)
  • What would you call that, if not treason?†   (source)
  • I'll put the whole profession on trial for sabotage, desertion and treason!†   (source)
  • "Snow shares Lord Eddard's taste for treason too," she said.†   (source)
  • Found guilty of treason and sentenced to hang, they had appealed to the President for a pardon.†   (source)
  • The others died too young to know what treason was.†   (source)
  • Mandela—still awaiting trial on the charge of treason—was arrested at his home in Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • Chelise was no more guilty of treason than ...She'd allowed him to dream.†   (source)
  • That the man was serving a life sentence for treason made the choice problematic.†   (source)
  • This woman has committed treason by loving an albino, he said.†   (source)
  • We have two queens to try for high treason, you may recall.†   (source)
  • You and your friends were playing at treason.†   (source)
  • Well then, let's see how far treason gets us.†   (source)
  • The Hand speaks with the king's own voice, and disobedience is treason.†   (source)
  • We smiled at the notion of Yutar poring over the hundred or so volumes of Treason Trial transcripts.†   (source)
  • The warlocks said the second treason would be for gold.†   (source)
  • It is social treason to spread rumors about the disappearance of Hank Rearden.†   (source)
  • She was guilty of every treason laid against her, and he was short a sword hand.†   (source)
  • Kings know the penalty for treason better than any man.†   (source)
  • If we live to fight another day, we will drag him through his treason.†   (source)
  • The synagogue was like a second home to me after four years of the Treason Trial.†   (source)
  • It is social treason to cast an unpatriotic light upon the tragic loss of Hank Rearden.†   (source)
  • Qurong could never accept treason, especially not in his own court.†   (source)
  • All this Queen Margaery has also been accused of, as well as adultery and high treason.†   (source)
  • So all Lord Rickard needed to do to prove himself innocent of treason was ...well, not burn.†   (source)
  • Shocked silence followed, until Ser Axell cried, "Treason!" and snatched his dagger from its sheath.†   (source)
  • Bowen Marsh said, "Some might call this treason.†   (source)
  • He brought his doom on himself with his treason, but I did love him, Davos.†   (source)
  • I sentence you to death for treason against the royal family.†   (source)
  • But she was the queen and this was treason.†   (source)
  • Peace with them is treason against Elyon!†   (source)
  • The Lord of Light willed that my brother die for his treason.†   (source)
  • His High Holiness is resolved that you be tried for regicide, deicide, incest, and high treason.†   (source)
  • Those too poor to pay can lose an eye, for watching treason.†   (source)
  • Full pardons, for all those who repent of treason and swear fealty to their rightful king.†   (source)
  • You are to be tried before a holy court of seven, for murder, treason, and fornication.†   (source)
  • Stannis would have taken it for treason.†   (source)
  • Is this some Lannister trap to make me speak treason?†   (source)
  • We never did no treason, the others come in and took what they wanted, same as this bunch.†   (source)
  • She insists that the man be removed from his office and placed under arrest for treason.†   (source)
  • "Treason is treason," she said, "but we must have proof, something more substantial than moon tea.†   (source)
  • As for you, Onion Knight, I have heard sufficient treason for one day.†   (source)
  • What the Red Viper was hinting at was treason.†   (source)
  • It is not treason unless you finish inside.†   (source)
  • And if you helped this captive slip his bonds, you are guilty of treason, my lady.†   (source)
  • And he dares to accuse me of incest, adultery, and treason!†   (source)
  • He speaks treason with his own lips, my lord.†   (source)
  • They were speaking treason, fomenting war ...†   (source)
  • To deal with treason, and to defend us if need be.†   (source)
  • If King Hizdahr was innocent, what they did this day would be treason.†   (source)
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