"High treason" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was high treason for any subject to march with banners displayed, unless he acted as the King's representative by ...
— In Convent Walls - The Story of the Despensers • Emily Sarah Holt
... this House, a direct proposition to the Legislature and each member of it to commit perjury, and involving necessarily in its execution and its consequences the destruction of our country and the crime of high treason:" wherefore it was to be resolved that Mr. Adams, in presenting a petition for dissolution, had "offered the deepest indignity to the House" and "an insult to the people;" that if "this outrage" should be "permitted ...
— John Quincy Adams - American Statesmen Series • John. T. Morse
... throw them across the border; it had been done. But information in disproof of this was forthcoming when the story reached us that a number of the Cape Dutch had risen in rebellion and needed the weapons for themselves! Kimberley's voice at once favoured the extreme penalty—death for high treason! Even moderate men, who allowed for racial sympathies, held that neutrality was in the circumstances the proper attitude to assume. But the local extremist—and he was the man of the hour—argued that the object of the rebels was to sweep the ...
— The Siege of Kimberley • T. Phelan
... ye think, base, villainous traitors as ye are, leagued with the rebel band in his coronation? My Lord of Chester, attach them of high treason." ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar
... all over the rooms, in the frolicsome spirits of youth, at length climbed up one of the turrets, and reached a little garret, where she found an old woman busy spinning with a distaff. The poor soul had never even heard of the king's edict, and did not dream that she was committing high treason ...
— Bo-Peep Story Books • Anonymous
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