Citations:perfidy

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English citations of perfidy

  • 1776, Thomas Jefferson, United States Declaration of Independence:
    He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.
  • 1907, Thomas Secombe, introduction to William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru:
    [] the desperate resolution of Pizarro, and the Satanic calmness of the perfidy with which, whooping “St Jago and at them!” he flung himself upon the confiding Inca and his vassals []