Word: betrayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then turns to a peaceful island and its occupants set up their communistic colony. The father of the heroine, a sly shipowner, when he sees French ships sailing by, attempts to betray his son-in-law's renegade democracy to the royal government; only to discover that it has been decapitated as he too will be unless he grows more tractable...
Such logic, profoundly philosophical, is unanswerable. Men with the vision to betray superiors who are later ruined and discredited, have not seldom achieved that universal esteem which may soon be the portion of Feng Yu-hsiang...
...Gherardo, the poor Parman is a religious rebel who gives all his money to the poor and dares combat with the Church of Rome. He is not, however, entirely a saint. His lusts lead him to betray a sympathetic virgin who later returns to help him conduct his holy reforms. Gherardo, veering like a mediaeval Elmer Gantry between his passion for this girl and his passion for reform, is led at last to betray his followers in an effort to secure her release from jail. In this effort he fails. He watches her being strangled and is then carried...
...France and England should have marched on Berlin, and the conquered populations should have been forced to sacrifice their production for a century, if necessary, in order to indemnify the victors. This is what Germany did in 1870, and she was quite right. The Allies, instead, allowed America to betray them in 1918, and they were quite wrong...
...long can the candle of genius be hidden under a bushel; the recognizing world catches errant gleams that betray closeted flame, and cries out to know more of the modest great. This has, unfortunately not been true with the Reverend Paul Sterling, MeIrose clergyman who has just revealed himself as the prime mover in Boston's recent campaign of book censorship. In this instance Cinderella herself has been obliged to strike the hour of unmasking...