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  • In fact, she realized with a grimace, she'd be lucky if she weren't accused of treason and magic-using.†   (source)
  • A lie like that is treason against the Republic.†   (source)
  • They felt that using analytical physics to support religious principles was a treason against science.†   (source)
  • Committed treason.†   (source)
  • Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly.†   (source)
  • Shooting was only for treason.†   (source)
  • Tried for treason, convicted—and killed.†   (source)
  • But that is treason!†   (source)
  • The accusation is treason either way.†   (source)
  • All of the American leaders have committed treason against the King.†   (source)
  • To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason.†   (source)
  • Sir, those words sound like treason.†   (source)
  • Damn it, man, that's treason in my book!†   (source)
  • Treason grows but for kind man.†   (source)
  • The penalty for treason is death.†   (source)
  • Such behavior, the journal said, "would be called treason in countries less enlightened and more arbitrary than ours."†   (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)
  • Like Old King Celon when he thought his regent was going to expose him for treason.†   (source)
  • She'd been Confined for treason, but the truth was far worse than anyone could've imagined.†   (source)
  • Dare the Emperor charge me with treason before a full Landsraad Council?†   (source)
  • I will not have treason spoken in my house, Sam.†   (source)
  • For treason against the gods, they will face eternal punishment.†   (source)
  • According to his dossier, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov had been sentenced for high treason.†   (source)
  • Intent on treason and sedition, mmh?†   (source)
  • "That's treason, Cass.†   (source)
  • All were charged with the crime of treason, a crime punishable by death.†   (source)
  • Is Yearling Barrius guilty of treason?†   (source)
  • Two days later, Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, accused of high treason, was condemned to death.†   (source)
  • Which, of course, is treason on my part, both as a son to my father and as a citizen of my country.†   (source)
  • "Twice, after being asked serious questions about whether he's committed treason, he's going to smirk.†   (source)
  • There are many paths to treason.†   (source)
  • " "I call this treason," Weaver said.†   (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)
  • He had not shed a tear when his brother was court-martialed for treason.†   (source)
  • In Cuthbert's eyes Roland saw that Hax would die for his treason as a viper dies in a pit.†   (source)
  • Your President pardoned me of our treason, you know.†   (source)
  • In all the long wars with the Dark Tower treason has ever been our greatest foe.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Ghosh was faced with a conundrum: How did one treat a soldier, an executioner, who now was engaged in treason against the Emperor?†   (source)
  • When the Lightwoods and the other Circle members were tried for treason against the Clave, the Penhallows voted for leniency.†   (source)
  • "You should really try one of these cookies," she said, holding out a chocolate-chip chunk of treason.†   (source)
  • Aiding him in any way would be seen as treason.†   (source)
  • Treason.†   (source)
  • Is you ready to commit 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)
  • 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)
  • Everyone spoke of it like murder or treason, with fascination and revulsion.†   (source)
  • Treason against humanity by one of our own!†   (source)
  • Why would you risk treason for a mud fight?†   (source)
  • No. Some day, you'll know what treason I'm committing right now, but ….†   (source)
  • The man you see before you has been accused of the high crime of treason.†   (source)
  • Arlian and Erimon and a dozen more he executed for treason on a false charge.†   (source)
  • The ultimate treason was in Villiers' house.†   (source)
  • The theme of punishment for treason became more prevalent as the war dragged on.†   (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)
  • Treason: Definition, Punishment†   (source)
  • Let's say for treason.†   (source)
  • As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Significantly, this was considered high treason.†   (source)
  • Back to Squamuglia, where Vittorio, the Duke's courier, reports how Niccolo has been talking 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)
  • I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.†   (source)
  • When he fired his carbine to miss he was committing treason against his unit, and he didn't care.†   (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)
  • What I'm after are the proofs and the documents—yes, proof positive of your treason.†   (source)
  • Mr. Webster's elaborate treason has done more than anything else to break down the North.†   (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)
  • MORE Margaret, I'll not have you talk treason….†   (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 lumped all change together, calling it treason before inspecting it.†   (source)
  • These offenses are treason to the royal family!†   (source)
  • I hereby put forward a motion to try Clarke Griffin for the crime of accessory to treason.†   (source)
  • Treason is the highest offense under English law, worse than murder.†   (source)
  • You weren't plotting treason in your dreams, were you?†   (source)
  • And there was only one way the palace dealt with treason.†   (source)
  • I could have you arrested for treason, have you shot for it even.†   (source)
  • She may lose her job because of familial association with treason.†   (source)
  • The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands.†   (source)
  • "It's the Emperor's sincere hope he'll never have to charge you with treason," the Count said.†   (source)
  • He spoke carefully, almost tentatively, yet his treason had been so brazen.†   (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)
  • "The word of your lord father's treason will no doubt reach them soon.†   (source)
  • All those tiptoeing treasons I heard you whisper with my uncles.†   (source)
  • You cannot guarantee Parliament would rule treason.†   (source)
  • Lord Baelish, what you suggest is treason.†   (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)
  • That's treason!" gasped an elderly woman who taught in the Languages department.†   (source)
  • I begin to think she owes her throne to the very barons she suspects of treason.†   (source)
  • In which case, you might find yourself arrested for treason.†   (source)
  • The punishment for treason, as every member of Congress knew, was death by hanging.†   (source)
  • And yet to keep it to myself is surely treason.†   (source)
  • The Hound sits at your right hand and you have the impudence to deny Rowan's treason!†   (source)
  • I wouldn't mind, but my father would consider my revelation the most extreme treason ….†   (source)
  • The others died too young to know what treason was.†   (source)
  • Just as importantly, they weren't conspiring with the Horde, which would be treason.†   (source)
  • It is social treason to spread rumors about the disappearance of Hank Rearden.†   (source)
  • The treason trial continued for another nine months and finally ended on March 29, 1961.†   (source)
  • He has more than enough information to turn me in for treason.†   (source)
  • If Rowan had committed the treasons of which you speak, I might be more amenable to your terms.†   (source)
  • If their treason be suffered to take root, much mischief must grow from it.†   (source)
  • "Treason, sedition, malfeasance, and if that weren't enough, now insubordination.†   (source)
  • Once I am wed it will be high treason to desire me.†   (source)
  • Colonel Stig Wennerström of the Swedish air force was convicted of treason in 1964.†   (source)
  • I sentence you to death for treason against the royal family.†   (source)
  • I will not have subversion, I will not have treason in my house.†   (source)
  • He brought his doom on himself with his treason, but I did love him, Davos.†   (source)
  • I said to Gwaihir, for the treason of Saruman had shaken my faith.†   (source)
  • "But if we ask them to commit treason—" "It isn't treason," Leila said.†   (source)
  • "It's not really treason anyway," says Dum.†   (source)
  • You can't throw away your life— Saving myself is treason.†   (source)
  • The Presidential power of pardoning has only been questioned in relation to the crime of treason.†   (source)
  • The Ethiopian Herald never wrote about treason, as if it were treasonable to report treason.†   (source)
  • I'll not be shamed because some witchcraft or treason has frozen both your bloods.†   (source)
  • Whatever the answer, he had paid for his treason with his life.†   (source)
  • Found guilty of treason and sentenced to hang, they had appealed to the President for a pardon.†   (source)
  • They were out of reach, safe with the aliens, but to the Radchaai they were guilty of treason.†   (source)
  • You are to be tried before a holy court of seven, for murder, treason, and fornication.†   (source)
  • Or if you're convicted of treason, you get lethal injection.†   (source)
  • He speaks treason with his own lips, my lord.†   (source)
  • "Is this open treason, Dwarf?" asked the King.†   (source)
  • The governor of New York can pardon even impeachment, except for treason and murder.†   (source)
  • 'Senate Aide Convicted of Treason: Senator Donaldson Professes No Knowledge of Aide's Action.'†   (source)
  • Louis XVI, stripped of all power, was to go on trial for treason.†   (source)
  • To deal with treason, and to defend us if need be.†   (source)
  • It is social treason to cast an unpatriotic light upon the tragic loss of Hank Rearden.†   (source)
  • Peace with them is treason against Elyon!†   (source)
  • The Assembly had declared that it was treason to pray for them.†   (source)
  • What he had done here in Canada was plain treason.†   (source)
  • They were speaking treason, fomenting war ….†   (source)
  • The warlocks said the second treason would be for gold.†   (source)
  • Mandela—still awaiting trial on the charge of treason—was arrested at his home in Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • This woman has committed treason by loving an albino, he said.†   (source)
  • That the man was serving a life sentence for treason made the choice problematic.†   (source)
  • If you don't take it …. well, I have orders to bring Reyna in alive to stand trial for treason.†   (source)
  • Chelise was no more guilty of treason than … She'd allowed him to dream.†   (source)
  • Bowen Marsh said, "Some might call this treason.†   (source)
  • I have not even suggested that treason might be involved.†   (source)
  • It hardly mattered in the end, because either way it was definitely the face of treason.†   (source)
  • All this Queen Margaery has also been accused of, as well as adultery and high treason.†   (source)
  • What would you call that, if not treason?†   (source)
  • We smiled at the notion of Yutar poring over the hundred or so volumes of Treason Trial transcripts.†   (source)
  • In my house I will decide what constitutes treason.†   (source)
  • Kings know the penalty for treason better than any man.†   (source)
  • I'll put the whole profession on trial for sabotage, desertion and treason!†   (source)
  • His High Holiness is resolved that you be tried for regicide, deicide, incest, and high treason.†   (source)
  • Shocked silence followed, until Ser Axell cried, "Treason!" and snatched his dagger from its sheath.†   (source)
  • The synagogue was like a second home to me after four years of the Treason Trial.†   (source)
  • If we live to fight another day, we will drag him through his treason.†   (source)
  • Qurong could never accept treason, especially not in his own court.†   (source)
  • The ending took the puppet show from simple insolence to treason.†   (source)
  • So all Lord Rickard needed to do to prove himself innocent of treason was …. well, not burn.†   (source)
  • Full pardons, for all those who repent of treason and swear fealty to their rightful king.†   (source)
  • Was Plumm the third treason, or the second?†   (source)
  • I will pardon you for your treason, as I have pardoned these lords you see behind me.†   (source)
  • Well then, let's see how far treason gets us.†   (source)
  • Osney Kettleblack is guilty of treason and murder, and the wages of treason are death.†   (source)
  • She insists that the man be removed from his office and placed under arrest for treason.†   (source)
  • Stannis would have taken it for treason.†   (source)
  • "Treason is treason," she said, "but we must have proof, something more substantial than moon tea.†   (source)
  • Is this some Lannister trap to make me speak treason?†   (source)
  • Those too poor to pay can lose an eye, for watching treason.†   (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)
  • The Lord of Light willed that my brother die for his treason.†   (source)
  • We never did no treason, the others come in and took what they wanted, same as this bunch.†   (source)
  • It is not treason unless you finish inside.†   (source)
  • She was guilty of every treason laid against her, and he was short a sword hand.†   (source)
  • And if you helped this captive slip his bonds, you are guilty of treason, my lady.†   (source)
  • You and your friends were playing at treason.†   (source)
  • That's how he deals with treason, our King in the North."†   (source)
  • "The Hand speaks with the king's own voice, and disobedience is treason."†   (source)
  • If the Shavepate speaks treason, he will leave me no choice but to arrest him.†   (source)
  • "Snow shares Lord Eddard's taste for treason too," she said.†   (source)
  • And he dares to accuse me of incest, adultery, and treason!†   (source)
  • What you propose is nothing less than treason.†   (source)
  • So tell me true—what is the penalty for treason?†   (source)
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