By this atrocious impiety you have seen several victorious revolutions in Europe deprived of their fruits and sinking to nothing by having made compromise with royal perjury.

Against these shadows all the powers of Breckenridge were taxed to the uttermost; and he might have succeeded, for his eloquence was most persuasive, and his influence over the minds of the people nearly unlimited, had not a false witness appeared to add strength by deliberate perjuries to a case already strong.

The king, his countenance changed with fury, turned passionately to the bishop, who tremblingly swore, while Archbishop Theobald crossed himself in amazement at the audacious perjury, that it was the abbot who had got the bull of which Thomas complained.

Nothing but the basest perjury can sully my good name.

To remain true to such as thee Were naught but blackest perjury.

Henry, hearing himself accused of weakness, thought to deliver himself from so much annoyance by a bold perjury; and he endeavored to draw Gregory and Matilda into a snare.

They certainly showed throughout the most light-hearted indifference to chronic perjury and treachery; nor did they in other respects appear to very good advantage.

There is nothing that I have seen in him to make me sure that he could not come forward with a determined perjury.

Perjury is no more of an immorality than ordinary lying; nor is ordinary lying any less a sin than formal perjury.

The constant offending this Way, has, in a Degree, an Effect upon the Honesty of his Mind who is guilty of it, as common Swearing is a kind of habitual Perjury: It makes the Soul unattentive to what an Oath is, even while it utters it at the Lips.

"Look on her enemies, on their Godly lies, Their holy perjuries, Their curs'd encrease of much ill gotten wealth, By rapine or by stealth, Their crafty friendship knit in equall guilt, And the Crown-Martyr's bloud so lately spilt.

The fact that he had broken his promise of secrecy did not trouble him, since it was in Marina's service, which made the action honorable; and were it not so, the little perjury was well atoned for by a keg of oil anonymously sent to the traghetto of San Nicolò è San Raffaele, "pel luminar al Madonna"; and Piero had much faith in anonymous gifts, for confessions were not always convenient for an officer of his dignity.

It was not we who broke the peace; we were assailed with a perjury more sacrilegious than the world has ever seen:we merely took up arms to defend ourselves against national extermination, against the nameless cruelties inflicted upon our people,men, women, children,by fire, murder, war, and royal perjury.

But she reminded him of Ernestine, and, with that trivial perjury to which lovers are always apt, he informed her that Ernestine was already engaged to some one else.

Will nature teach thee such vild perjury?

"Fearful of the Truth" They tried the moth-eaten device of arresting our witnesses for alleged perjury, hoping to discredit those witnesses thus in your eyes because they knew they couldn't discredit them in any regular nor legitimate way.

It is not because that woman, by a vile perjury, claims me as her husband, and because I wish to buy her silence or his, that I make this restitution.

"Thou askest perjury and disloyalty and dishonor of an Iturbi y Moncada?" "An Iturbi y Moncada asks it of an Iturbi y Moncada.