Already I was considered heterodox if not
treasonable, and I was keenly alive to the danger of my position; nevertheless I could not at times refrain from bursting out into suspicious or half-seditious utterances, even among the highest Polygonal and Circular society.
Some of the young ladies--many of them, I may say--are even very beautiful; they average a shade better than American girls--which
treasonable words I pray may be forgiven me.
Thomson said slowly,--"a man who is convicted of having
treasonable correspondence with our enemy?
We Britons had at that time particularly settled that it was
treasonable to doubt our having and our being the best of everything: otherwise, while I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty.
Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the
treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life.
Dissolve thy Chapter, and depart with thy followers to thy next Preceptory, (if thou canst find one), which has not been made the scene of
treasonable conspiracy against the King of England Or, if thou wilt, remain, to share our hospitality, and behold our justice.
Having offended Queen Elizabeth by his boldness in successfully opposing an encroachment on the rights of the House of Commons, Bacon connected himself with the Earl of Essex and received from him many favors; but when Essex attempted a
treasonable insurrection in 1601, Bacon, as one of the Queen's lawyers, displayed against him a subservient zeal which on theoretical grounds of patriotism might appear praiseworthy, but which in view of his personal obligations was grossly indecent.
For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as
treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
Upon which,' said Mr Meagles, 'as a practical man, I then and there, in that presence, took Doyce by the collar, and told him it was plain to me that he was an infamous rascal and
treasonable disturber of the government peace, and took him away.
The reason for his action, which would be considered
treasonable in some jurisdictions, was his blind hatred of Sinn Fein.
Others called for them to return to the US to stand trial, arguing that the fact they were in a war zone at a time when Allied troops were fighting proved that they had
treasonable intentions and, therefore, deserved no sympathy.
The MI5 file also noted Lady Mosley's left-wing sister, novelist Nancy Mitford, "personally informed the authorities of her sister's
treasonable sympathies.
