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Usage examples of traitors.

Did you know, for example, that the prisons are filled to bursting with traitors and conspirators?

Are you not aware that the Reparationists brand all Exalted, without exception, as enemies of the people and traitors to Vonahr?

In the meantime, the guilty must be punished, the traitors must be cast out.

The property of such traitors was automatically forfi-it to the state.

Some doom that they be flayed, others that they be hanged or burnt, and the king himself deems that traitors should be drawn.

But before any attack is made the king has the traitors dragged by four horses round the castle, through the valleys, and over mounds and hillocks.

The traitors are holding counsel as to what they will be able to do and what will become of them.

To this plan all the traitors cling from desperation, for they have no confidence as to their lives.

Thus we shall go towards the castle, and the traitors within will think that we are of their party, and whatever the requital may be the doors will be opened to us.

Chief Inquisitor, I present to you five traitors, members of the so-called Brotherhood of Justice.

In the name of all the Thousand Gods, and in the name of Jair himself, I declare that the lives of these four traitors shall be forfeit.

Rome, it would appear, is the tribunician veto, and the real traitors the tribunes of the plebs.

It was the traditional way to execute Roman citizen traitors and murderers, who were either thrown from it or forced to jump.

Union will lose, and the traitors will go off setting up a nation including Mexico and Cuba.

General John Breckinridge, as well as others occupying the very highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of the government once the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors then as now.