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Definition of Treacheries
1. treachery [n] - See also: treachery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treacheries
Literary usage of Treacheries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"A true and briefe Discourse of many dangers by fire, and other perfidious
treacheries of the Javans. ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... The Portugals and Jesuits treacheries against him. the foure and twentieth of
August ... treacheries ..."
3. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"They were a simple people, unversed in the wiles of civilization; and while they
had not forgotten the treacheries of the earlier voyagers, ..."
4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"THE Treacheries OF PUCK. I. A youth in silver armor, the wings of a snowy eaglet
displayed on his casque, was riding along in the early morning upon a white ..."
5. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"... geographical fraud—Discovery of the treasures of the west—Arrival of the
conquistadores—The slave trade—Treacheries of the Cubagua colonists—Gonzalez de ..."
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