Treacherous Sentence Examples

How would you like to take a treacherous ride?

It was described as a treacherous path.

On the 5th of November the army, misled by treacherous guides and thirst-stricken, was ambuscaded in dense forest at Kashgil, 30 m.

In disposition the Australians are a bright, laughter-loving folk, but they are treacherous, untruthful and hold human life cheaply.

They used to be described as the most cruel and treacherous people in the world, and they certainly are callous of the pain suffered by others, and regard any strategy of which their enemies are the victims with open admiration.

Soon after his death the city fell by treacherous means into the hands of Francesco II.

I had learned a new lesson--that nature "wages open war against her children, and under softest touch hides treacherous claws."

Its power was further curtailed in 382, when a Spartan force occupied the citadel by a treacherous coup-de-main.

Charles also rightly felt that he could never trust the treacherous Augustus to remain quiet, even if he made peace with him.

In spite of its wide basis and great energy, the monte dei riformatori, the heart of the new government, could not satisfactorily cope with the attacks of adverse factions and treacherous allies.

He had insinuating manners and could make himself very agreeable if he chose; but he was mean, treacherous, rapacious, suspicious and horribly vindictive.

The burning of the Barns of Ayr, the quarters of English soldiers, in revenge for the treacherous slaughter of his uncle, Sir Ronald Crawford, and other Scottish noblemen, followed.

To some extent the Spartans were undoubtedly relieved, in that it no longer fell to them to organize distant expeditions to Asia Minor, and this feeling was strengthened about the same time by the treacherous conduct of their king Leotychides in Thessaly.

This treacherous decision (but see Caliphate, ib.) greatly injured the cause of Ali, which was still further weakened by the loss of Egypt.

The difficulty arose from the general complication of Mahratta politics, and especially from the weak and treacherous character of the peshwa, which Elphinstone rightly read from the first.

Others see in him a personification of the waves rising to a height and then suddenly falling, or of the treacherous sea.

Employing the same unscrupulous and treacherous methods which had proved so fatal to his father, he simultaneously supported and encouraged the expedition of Montrose and the royalists, and negotiated with the covenanters.

By her treacherous attack upon the frontier-town of Oropus (156) Athens indirectly brought about the conflict between Rome and the Achaean League which resulted in the eventual loss of Greek independence, but remained herself a free town with rights secured by treaty.

In spite of the treacherous murder of Jonathan by the Syrian general, the prosperity of the Jews was more than maintained by Simon.

Many of the Frisian legends and folk-songs deal with the submerged villages and hamlets, which lie buried beneath the treacherous waters of the Wadden.

Unfortunately, his health was so treacherous that, on the dissolution of July 1698, he was obliged to retire from parliamentary life.

The German Liberals and the governmental Socialists had withdrawn their support from Bethmann Hollweg's Government at the time of the so-called " Peace Resolution " (July 19 1917), largely on the ground that it was inconceivable that the Allies and America should ever negotiate with politicians like Zimmermann and Bethmann, who had been guilty of the note to Mexico and other treacherous proceedings.

Mentor was the treacherous contriver of the death of Hermias (345-344 B.C.).

The weather remained treacherous, going from calm to storm with no warning.

I can't believe we're getting involved in something so bizarre and so treacherous.

The issue of the violent and treacherous conduct of Bonaparte towards the island was that the blacks drove from their soil the forces sent to subdue them, and founded a constitution of their own, which was more than once modified.

Ingot metal or mild steel was sometimes treacherous when first introduced, and accidents occurred, the causes of which were obscure.

Both Absalon and Valdemar narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of their treacherous host on this occasion, but at length escaped to Jutland, whither Sweyn followed them, but was defeated and slain at the battle of Grathe Heath.

But in 876 part of the Danes managed to slip past him and occupied Wareham; whence, early in 877, under cover of treacherous negotiations, they made a dash westwards and seized Exeter.

After a half reconciliation, James marched in force to Stirling, the key of the north, but the treacherous commander of the castle, Shaw of Sauchie, held the castle against him.

They are unscrupulous in perjury, treacherous, vain and insatiable, passionate in vindictiveness, which they will satisfy at the cost of their own lives and in the most cruel manner.

After the treacherous murder of his brother by Sasanka, king of Central Bengal, he was confirmed as raja, though still very young, by the nobles of Thanesar in 606, though it would appear that his effective rule did not begin till six years later.'

In 374 the Quadi, a German tribe in what is now Moravia and Hungary, resenting the erection of Roman forts to the north of the Danube in what they considered to be their own territory, and further exasperated by the treacherous murder of their king, Gabinius, crossed the river and laid waste the province of Pannonia.

The difficulties of his position may have led him to give some countenance to a treacherous attack on Fougeres during the time of truce (March 1449).

And when we look to practice we find that cruel and even treacherous deeds are spoken of without the least sense that they deserve censure.

As a punishment for the treacherous murder of some Roman merchants and one of Caesar's commissariat officers at Cenabum, the town was burnt and the inhabitants put to the sword or sold as slaves.

Yes, they must be strict with us, Even in death so treacherous!

El Motaddid was a poet and a lover of letters, who was also a poisoner, a drinker of wine, a sceptic and treacherous to the utmost degree.

Though of a fickle and treacherous nature, he had all the personal fascination of his family, and is extolled by his contemporaries as a mirror of chivalry.

Alanius was, therefore, welcomed by the Ilasidaeans, and only his treacherous murder of sixty of their number taught them that any Syrian nominee was their enemy.

The east of the island provides a dramatic contrast with the rugged beauty of the treacherous Atlantic coast.

In 1641 he had a narrow escape from a treacherous death on the outbreak of the rising.

Be warned, however, that road surfaces are variable and potentially treacherous after heavy rain when potholes may be disguised.

But like tides, wind and swell compounded, their cocktail has proven treacherous.

When was the last time she'd felt so tinglingly treacherous?

The Baluch is less turbulent, less treacherous, less bloodthirsty and less fanatical than the Pathan.

How could someone so treacherous have lived under his nose for thousands of years?

He'd even made his peace with Claire before feeding the treacherous bitch to the sociopathic Original Vamp.

The immediate effect of this is rather like stepping straight from a glorious, sunlit, flower-filled meadow into a treacherous bog.

We must be with the masses against the splitting and treacherous trade-union bureaucracy.

The ground was treacherous underfoot, and the darkness turned even the smallest obstacle into a potential deathtrap.

The wonder is that in so faithless, treacherous, and cruel a monarch, any confidence anywhere was left.

Imagine a million square miles of empty desert, an unmapped land patched with treacherous quicksand, a blisteringly hot place lashed by sandstorms.

With his endearing yet cynical wit, Malcolm navigates his way through the sometimes treacherous, always entertaining waters of childhood.

Courageously he leaped into the Ouse, which is known to be particularly treacherous in this spot, but was unable to find him.

We did have some sunshine but we also cycled through tropical rain on several days, which made some routes quite treacherous.

However with snow covering the mountain side this became pretty treacherous.

Weary travelers using the turnpike between Launceston and Bodmin would stay at the Inn after having crossed the wild and treacherous moor.

In 1294 Ala-ud-din Khilji, the third of the great Mahommedan conquerors of India, raised himself to the throne of Delhi by the treacherous assassination of his uncle Feroz II.

In 1281 discontent with the king and his system of justice had again become rife in Wales, and at this point the treacherous Prince David, who had hitherto supported the king against his own brother, was the first to proclaim a national revolt.

He trusted much to his memory, which was occasionally treacherous.

In 1839, when the British army advanced through the Bolan Pass towards Afghanistan, the conduct of Mehrab Khan, the ruler of Baluchistan, was considered so treacherous and dangerous as to require " the exaction of retribution from that chieftain," and " the execution of such arrangements as would establish future security in that quarter."

At this time they were subject to Roduif, king of the Heruli, who, however, took up arms against them; according to one story, owing to the treacherous murder of Rodulf's brother, according to another through an irresistible desire for fighting on the part of his men.

Hidden rocks make the Finnish archipelago quite treacherous and only experienced sailors with up-to-date charts should navigate them.

However, in a period of acute class struggle, the bureaucracy of the trade unions inevitably plays a treacherous role.

Strife again broke out between Rudolph and his treacherous younger brother Matthias, who used the religious and political controversies of the time for the purpose of supplanting his brother.

In 1385 the Venetians set the Scala against Carrara, who thereupon allied himself with the treacherous Gian Galeazzo Visconti.

Garnet, it is true, claimed to limit the justification of equivocation to cases " of necessary defence from injustice and wrong or of the obtaining some good of great importance when there is no danger of harm to others," and he could justify his conduct in lying to the council by their own conduct towards him, which included treacherous eavesdropping and fraud, and also threats of torture.

In order to obtain food, they venture naked in small canoes into the treacherous seas; their life is a constant battle with starvation and a rude climate, and their character has become rude and low in consequence.

Preserved by the devotion of his thegn Lilla,Edwin vowed to become a Christian if victorious over his treacherous enemy.

Beautiful, clever and proud, like her mother, but cruel and treacherous, her ambition was to raise the kingdom of Naples to the position of a great power; she soon came to exercise complete sway over her stupid and idle husband, and was the real ruler of the kingdom.

He did, however, succeed in undoing all the work of his ancestors5 partly by his own slackness and sloth, partly by his choice of corrupt and treacherous ministers.

The only security which he had for the safety of his dominions in his absence was that his most dangerous neighbor, the king of France, was also setting out on the Crusade, and that his brother John, whose shifty and treacherous character gave sure promise of trouble, enjoyed a well-merited unpopularity both in England and in the continental dominions of the crown.

The men are brave and not treacherous, but ambitious, jealous and extremely revengeful.

According to its so fifth report, it originated " in the prospective fears of a portion of the trade that some dire calamity must inevitably, sooner or later, overtake the cotton manufacture of Lancashire, whose vast superstructure had so long rested upon the treacherous foundation of restricted slave labour as the main source of supply for its raw material."

The result was that James threw off the yoke of his stepfather, Angus; drove him and his astute and treacherous brother, Sir George Douglas, into England (thereby raising up, like Bruce, a fatal party of lords disinherited), and while he was alienated from Henry and his Reformation, threw himself into the arms of France, of the clergy and of Rome.

If he appears unscrupulous and even treacherous he did but conform to the standards of 16th-century Italy.

Rain overnight had made conditions underfoot a little treacherous in places for those without off-road shoes.

The "Treacherous Trios" three-packs of action figures feature some classic characters along with their modern-day equivalents in the ring.

Similar in nature to History Channel's Ice Road Truckers, the road itself is often treacherous and sometimes unstable.

They meet up with the sad, strange creature Gollum, from whom Bilbo had found the ring many years ago, and are forced to enlist his treacherous self into their company to further their own goals and prevent him from giving them away.

Five years later, she is set to wed the treacherous Prince Humperdink then kidnapped by a trio of misfits for the purpose of starting a war against a rival kingdom.

The roads were nearly empty but low visibility made driving treacherous.

The inhabitants of Pannonia are described as brave and warlike, but cruel and treacherous.

Even the spiteful or treacherous act of Dolet, who in 1542 reprinted the earlier form of the books which Rabelais had just slightly modified, seems to have done him no harm.

The journey there took longer than expected with the huge gales having made the roads rather treacherous.

Those who put their faith in the Gods will surely prove victorious in battle against these treacherous servants.

Cabot's colony at San Espiritu did not long survive his departure; an attempt of the chief of the Timbus to gain possession of one of the Spanish ladies of the settlement led to a treacherous massacre of the garrison.

He has relied, however, in his efforts to link the tribes together, too much on the prevalence or absence of such customs as circumcision - always very treacherous evidences - to allow of his hypothetical distribution being regarded very seriously.

The Andamanese are, indeed, bright and merry companions, busy in their own pursuits, keen sportsmen, naturally independent and not lustful, but when angered, cruel, jealous, treacherous and vindictive, and always unstable - in fact, a people to like but not to trust.

His methods of conquest were ferocious and treacherous; but once the conquest was made he governed his subjects with firmness and justice, so that his rule was preferred to the anarchy of factions and local despots.

Farther north we come to the urmans of West Siberia, dense thickets of trees often rising from a treacherous carpet of thickly interlaced grasses, which conceals deep marshes, where even the bear has learnt to tread circumspectly.

Wollner, whom Frederick the Great had described as a "treacherous and intriguing priest," had started life as a poor tutor in the family of General von Itzenplitz, a noble of the mark of Brandenburg, had, after the general's death and to the scandal of king and nobility, married the general's daughter, and with his mother-in-law's assistance settled down on a small estate.

By this demonstration of opinion peace was made for a time between the Vaudois and their persecutors; but it was a treacherous peace, and left the Vaudois with a hostile garrison established among them.

As sea-nymphs, they represent the treacherous calm of ocean, which conceals destruction beneath its smiling surface; or they signify the enervating influence of the hot wind (compare the name Sirius), which shrivels up the fresh young life of vegetation.

The Hauran Druses are a vigorous, independent folk, with a well-deserved reputation for courage, very astute, and hospitable to Europeans, especially the British, with whom they have an old tradition of friendship. But, like most persecuted but semiindependent peoples, they are both cruel, and, by our standards, treacherous.

Juba was a thorough savage; brave, treacherous, insolent and cruel.

Wet fig leaves the size of saucepan lids have rendered the steps almost too treacherous to walk down.

In general they are seen as malevolent, guiding lone travelers into treacherous bogs.

The coastline is rugged, with treacherous reefs stretching far out to sea to wreck unwary ships.

The spectacular natural beauty of the islands hides a treacherous coastline that has seen many ships founder.

Yet after long years of exile, their homeland calls and the family makes the treacherous journey back to Spain.

Yes, they must be strict with us, Even in death so treacherous !

The river, made famous by the likes of Mark Twain and the myriad of captains, who made history steering their steamboats in treacherous conditions, is still a vital part of the travel industry.

This covering will keep the cold off, the soil open, and ward off the effects of a treacherous winter sun.

You are a hero who helps find this treacherous lord, locate the princess and save the lands from a terrible fate.

Foggy London is treacherous and the speedy streets of San Francisco look awesome.

Alcatraz with its isolation, treacherous currents, and chilly waters made it ideal to house these worst of the worst criminals.

Even flats, if they don't have the right amount of support and grip, can prove treacherous if you try to walk any kind of distance in them.

The treacherous vizier, however, made our too credulous political officers believe that Mehrab Khan was to blame; his object being to bring his master to ruin and to obtain for himself all power in the state, knowing that Mehrab's successor was only a child.

In ordinary circumstances, however, the Malay is not treacherous, and there are many instances recorded in which men of this race have risked their own lives on behalf of Europeans who chanced to be their friends.

To strangers the natives have long had the reputation of being treacherous.

In Othello, the idea of the treacherous Moor versus the noble white man is inverted, subverting the stereotype.

The area can be treacherous in poor weather, low cloud can reduce visibility within minutes.

We hope that they have joined with wild herds - a solitary life for a very young elephant would be treacherous in many ways.

At 2200 hours, the force began the 12 mile walk over treacherous terrain on a dark night.

When was the last time she 'd felt so tinglingly treacherous?

The coaster first opened in July 1976 amid great fanfare - with two inversions arranged in a treacherous double corkscrew, the coaster offered high tech thrills at the very beginning of the roller coaster boom.

Mark himself is a cowardly, treacherous and vindictive character.

Slipping to the bottom the prey is immediately seized by the lurking ant-lion; or if it attempt to scramble again up the treacherous walls of the pit, is speedily checked in its efforts and brought down by showers of loose sand which are jerked at it from below by the larva.

Henry was notoriously treacherous; to kidnap was his ideal in diplomacy.

Finland, however, did not enter Russia as a conquered province, but, thanks to the bravery of her people after they had been abandoned by an incompetent monarch and treacherous generals, and not less to the wisdom and generosity of the emperor Alexander I.

But in 1860, in consequence of the treacherous attack made on the British plenipotentiary the preceding year at Taku, the city and suburbs were occupied by an allied British and French force, and were held for two years.

But a six months' residence in Campania, and the congratulations which poured in upon him from the neighbouring towns, where the report had been officially spread that Agrippina had fallen a victim to her treacherous designs upon the emperor, gradually restored his courage.