Betrayal

Examples

• Pablo was a swine but the others were fine people and was it not a betrayal of them all to get them to do this? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• On that side it might be concluded that there had been no betrayal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The tempter stood by him, too,--blinded by furious, despotic will,--every moment pressing him to shun that agony by the betrayal of the innocent. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But Lily's self-betrayal took this last hope from her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I see no betrayal anywhere of sympathy of any kind existing between them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Betrayal wouldn't amount to anything without all these pledges, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And I told him why I thought it a betrayal of trust on his part, and an affront to me,' said Bella. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is a story of luck and violence, of bold claims and sudden betrayals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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