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Her dispatches became the core of "The Meaning of Treason," in which West contemplated treason's many political and personal sources.
Parallel Lives Arthur Herman 2011
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Or from foul treason's savage grasp to wrench the murderous blade,
The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 Osbourne H. Oldroyd
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For treason's hydra head is crushed -- its reign of terror o'er.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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From that inauspicious moment forward to the present, no mask has hid from the scorn of the Christian world treason's hideous visage, but that blear-eyed monster, armed with every weapon of iniquity which devilish invention could devise, has alternately, with rage and despair, rushed to and fro across the continent, spilling the blood of innocence.
The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details I. Windslow Ayer
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In Yorkshire it was feared that the money extorted from the abbeys was going to London; and that the new treason's acts would operate harshly.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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Or from foul treason's savage grasp to wrench the murderous blade,
The Lost Despatch Natalie Sumner Lincoln 1908
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Truth smiles applause on treason's poisonous plan:
A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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"'Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed, and the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, still must I on; for I am as a weed flung from the rocks on Ocean's foam to sail, where'er secession breeds, or treason's works prevail,'" -- added Seth, altering the verse to suit the occasion.
The Drummer Boy 1871
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One day bears the double stigma of treason's first and latest blow -- the assault of Sumter, and the murder of the
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The impersonated malice, and hate of treason's fell spirit, changed the commander-in-chief of a half million armed men, and the civil ruler of thirty millions of people, to a lump of lifeless clay.
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