seditious

• From remote antiquity, when the seditious were taken ad furcas Tyburnam , until that November day in 1783 when John Austin closed the long list, the gallows were kept ever busy, and during the first half of the eighteenth century, with which this book deals, every Newgate sessions sent thither its thieves, highwaymen and coiners by the score. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• Jewish Bolsheviks who targeted Russia demonstrated an ideological pattern and identity comparable to the Israel lobby: both seditious, alien movements conspiring to take control of a countries 'people and institutions and put them to work on their own messianic agenda through domestic subversion, bullying, and in the case of the Bolsheviks, murder. —  Israel Palestine Blogs
• He was ordered to be arrested and prosecuted for his seditious and blasphemous writings, but escaped to France, and was elected a member of the French National Convention--grateful for the honour which the bloody anarchists had conferred upon him by electing him a member of their order. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• Cadillac denounced the petition as seditious, threatened to hang the bearer of it, and deigned no other answer He resumed his sarcasms against the colony. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
• I came to tell Mr. Ward that he has been denounced to the Government as a seditious person, and that I received orders to-night to arrest him And why did you not execute them?" —  The Northern Iron

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