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While these were the Rules of Life, Perjuries in the Prince, and a general Corruption of Manners in the Subject, were the Snares in which France has Entangled all her Neighbours.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Nor do your Perjuries rest here; you're equally as false to Galliard, as to me; false for a little Mistress of the Town, whom you've set up in spite to Quality.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague

Perjuries the most atrocious and crushing, especially to the respectable poor, became the order of the day.

From West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas by Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)

How, Sir, dare you upbraid me with that Sin, To which your Perjuries first drew me in?

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague