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Added Luther's disciple, Melanchthon: "Astute and impious . . . blowing smoke perfidiously before his hearers."

From Time Magazine Archive

If perfidiously received, it binds to punishment for not obeying it, and for deceitfully professing, by vow or oath, to receive it.

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

No; I would have you choose me through love—freely; not to repair a fault, not because you have fallen into the snares you perhaps think I have perfidiously spread for you.

From Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

Colonel Nicholls became the deputy governor for James, the Duke of York, in administering the affairs of the extended realms which the British government had thus perfidiously seized.

From Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

I must give thee some counsel, then," said the admiral, "for I apprehend the governor did, very perfidiously as I esteem it, when he ceased his opposition, rest much hope on that of his general.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird




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