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  • Mr. Taschereau was sent to jail for "Treasonable practices."

    One of Canada's Assets, the Habitant 1922

  • Treasonable acts can be punished; excessive accumulation of property can be prevented; in fact, every action, circumstance, tendency that constitutes a real danger to the public welfare can be successfully dealt with by other methods than that of denying these associations the right of existence.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Treasonable, you mean, -- to strike when the lives of hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen depend on your labour.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Treasonable, you mean, -- to strike when the lives of hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen depend on your labour.

    Dr. Jonathan Winston Churchill 1909

  • Grenville introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill, while Pitt in the

    William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

  • Equally drastic was the Treasonable Practices Bill.

    William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

  • Treasonable gossip filtered no longer from doorway to doorway; carbines were not to be had for a song; no more nightly drills and weekly meetings gave a spice of great expectations to their life.

    The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Treasonable gossip filtered no longer from doorway to doorway; carbines were not to be had for a song; no more nightly drills and weekly meetings gave a spice of great expectations to their life.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Treasonable gossip filtered no longer from doorway to doorway; carbines were not to be had for a song; no more nightly drills and weekly meetings gave a spice of great expectations to their life.

    The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Treasonable practices against the life of Robert the Bruce brought about the downfall of the Celtic Earls.

    Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

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