recreants

Poetry herself deserts us; is it not said that Bacchus never forgives a renegade? and most of us turn recreants to Bacchus.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

I thought ye would never have given out these arms till you had recovered your ancient freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.

The Second part of King Henry the Sixth 2004

Of course now the local politicians are in high dudgeon, taking over that which local church officials there failed to control, knowing that the floodgates have opened and the streets of Kingston are going to be littered every Saturday night with craven, drunken, sinful recreants, a la Vegas.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

Of course now the local politicians are in high dudgeon, taking over that which local church officials there failed to control, knowing that the floodgates have opened and the streets of Kingston are going to be littered every Saturday night with craven, drunken, sinful recreants, a la Vegas.

From On High 2004

This ship which now intombs my iealous soule, Honestlie enuious of aspiring laude, Is cald _Reuenge_, the scourge which doth controule, The recreants that _Errors_ right applaud, Shall like her selfe, by name and fame enroule My spyrits acts, by no

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

With these before us, how could we dare be infidels and recreants to our earlier faith, or smile in scorn at the fanciful loves and cherished dreams of infancy?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

The stern Calvinism, by which their fathers had lived and died, was, by these early recreants, first mistrusted, then questioned, and finally abjured.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Spanish aristocracy as traitors -- that is, as recreants and apostates -- from any and every cause meriting the name of national.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

Mile Douxmourie, once affianced to De L'Amye but jilted by him, accidentally discovers the pair and immediately communicates with the gallant's wife, who with the Valiers soon appears to reclaim the recreants.

The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915

I thought ye would never have given out these arms till you had recovered your ancient freedom; but you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.

Act IV. Scene VIII. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth 1914