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Confronted with a flat refusal by the indignant Prince to perform what he regarded as a flagitious crime, the Amír-Nizám commissioned his own brother, Mírzá Ḥasan Kh_án, to execute his orders.— God Passes By
It may produce wicked, flagitious, tyrannical acts; but in no country is it law The duty of a sovereign in cases of rebellion, as laid down in the Hedaya, agrees with the general practice in India.— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
And for some time it appeared so to do, till it came to the touchstone of experience; and then it was found that there was a defalcation from these monstrous raised revenues which were to cancel in the minds of the Directors the wickedness of so atrocious, flagitious, and horrid an act of treachery.— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
But he had an uneasy and bitter presentiment that they were birds of paradise, and fifty other cursed birds beside, and that in this costly competition Dangerfield could take a flight beyond and above him; and he thought of the flagitious waste of money, and cursed him for a fool again.— The House by the Church-Yard

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