Word: betrays
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...arguments by which our young oligarch would betray the demos are not difficult to criticise. They clothe, however, a spirit in the mouth of which a sneer at democracy was most appropriate. It is no mild imputation on gentlemen who are Harvard students, to call them "outside barbarians," and speak of them as men "to whom society is but a name." It bespeaks a snobbish arrogance which should be an anomaly in this country. We thank it for taking on itself the name of oligarchy...
...highest forms of murder to be found in Teutonic nations resemble the Gothic architecture and the poetry of Shakspeare in their wilder style, their higher emotion, their deep and solemn mystery. Coming to our own time, is it surprising that our architecture, our painting, our poetry, our murders, all betray a miserable want of purpose, of sincerity, of well-trained effort...
...vital necessaries. The grange of Iowa at the beginning of the season appointed an agent who, it is said, has saved, in purchases, $2,000,000 to the farmers of that State. He was under heavy bonds, of $50,000, to make it sure that he would not betray the trust: for the sake of science too much care cannot be taken upon this point, since the confidence of the small farmers in their leaders would be annihilated and the experiment fail disgracefully, if there should be very soon a great embezzlement. For the sale of products the preparations have...
...depth of love doth not betray...