What is "treacherous"

Usage examples of "treacherous".

He reached the Second Viennese Arbitrage with the help of Berlin and Rome, and there, however, the surrounding symptoms only proved to him that the Germans were playing a treacherous game.

Moozh was taking a thousand fierce soldiers with him on a forced march through the mountains, to take the city of Basilica and destroy the party of Gaballufix, a group of men so daring and treacherous that they had dared to send an assassin against the general of the Gorayni.

When the climber occasionally loses sight of a leg in one of these treacherous holes, and feels a cold sensation in his foot, he learns that he has dipped into the sources of the Boquet, which emerges lower down into falls and rapids, and, recruited by creeping tributaries, goes brawling through the forest basin, and at last comes out an amiable and boatbearing stream in the valley of Elizabeth Town.

Torgreave and Bowland, from Dover to London, was slow, for rain turned the road to a treacherous sea of mud.

Although Possano was a liar and an ungrateful, treacherous hound, yet I could not help being uneasy.

And when I saw that the reef was but the black basalt crown of a shocking eikon whose monstrous forehead now shown in the dim moonlight and whose vile hooves must paw the hellish ooze miles below, I shrieked and shrieked lest the hidden face rise above the waters, and lest the hidden eyes look at me after the slinking away of that leering and treacherous yellow moon.

But O, build it strong and stanch, And to the lines and the treacherous rocks look well as yon launch Over the foamy tops of the waves, and their foam-sprent sides, Over the hidden reefs, and through the embattled tides, Onward rushes the raft, with many a lurch and leap,-- Lord!

I loosed my hold on this treacherous form, assimilating their mass into more of the true Esen, the real Esen.

The gekko grip on my hands made glassy, treacherous holds laughably comfortable.

Gayle and Toby followed after the thunder godling, sticking close so as not to lose him in the treacherous fog.

Now, having turned back towards them, he was approaching the Goulet, that treacherous passage that led into the port, dragging the Bucephalas, and Harry Ludlow, in his wake.

It was common wisdom in the Easterlies that the failure of Butterfly Day had come about in large part as a result of the treacherous connivance of the middle guilded of the Westerlies, who had diluted the Twelve Demands in cottony compromise and irrelevant talk about changing the calendar.

There is something fearful in knowing that beneath your feet, as you wander in these ruined places, exist gulphs of darkness, into which a false step amongst treacherous bushes and weeds might precipitate the unwary.

They had hunted and guzzled and gambled together, and Aahmes had complained privately to Amboola about the queen, whose cruel heart was as cunning and treacherous as her dusky body was desirable.

Cyrus Harding, who did not like his dog to venture into the treacherous water.