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  • Of course one can understand how enthusiasm for it might wane in England after the American Revolution — the was invented by that ‘arch-traitor Benjamin Franklin’!

    The Story of the Glass Armonica | Impact Lab 2007

  • In this version, he wasn't an arch-traitor; he was doing his duty to fulfill God's plan.

    David Berreby: A Tale of Two Disciples 2008

  • Barnes, the arch-traitor, temporised and told him falsehoods, and hesitated about throwing him off until the Marquis had declared himself?

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Would it be still well that she should do something, that she should make some attempt; or should she, in truth, abandon all, as the arch-traitor did, and acknowledge that for her foot there could no longer be a resting-place on the earth?

    The Claverings 2005

  • They had him in one of their shallow boats, or prames, as they call them, which was to lead them in upon signal from the arch-traitor.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The last planet we captured, before this invisibility thing came up to stop us, was plastered all over with notices that the Earth fleet was concentrating on the capture of the arch-traitor MacMaine.

    The Highest Treason Randall Garrett 1957

  • Arnold sat with other officers at some time during the Saratoga campaign, Brown faced the arch-traitor and denounced him as a scoundrel, and then, apologizing to those present, left the tent.

    Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold Archibald Murray Howe

  • Brown again and again renewed his charges against the arch-traitor, but was not able to get proper attention from the tribunals that should have relieved him from Arnold's false charges.

    Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold Archibald Murray Howe

  • Washington, however, was resolved to capture the arch-traitor if possible; and with this view he sent Lafayette to blockade him on the land side, while a French squadron blockaded him by sea.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • It is probable, however, that the arch-traitor who thus furnished the governments of Europe with draughts of these valuable works had then in contemplation the monstrous rebellion which now desolates our beautiful land, and took this means of weakening us by the universal dissemination of the valuable secrets whereby we were enabled to surpass the rest of the world in the rapidity of construction, and the beauty and executive power of our rifled musket.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

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