perfidious Albion
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Oh, the huffing and the puffing, the outrage, the denunciation of perfidious Albion, the burning of their own vineyards by furious French winemakers!
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012
But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles through."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a result, Macmillan has deepened France's ancient mistrust of perfidious Albion, while the Kennedy Administration's consultations with Whitehall have become ever more perfunctory on such life-or-death issues as Berlin and Cuba.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were shrugging Italian references to "perfidious Albion," and open questioning in France and Germany of Britain's staunchness.
From Time Magazine Archive
In La Vend�e and in the west, the prelates are to stigmatize "the odious machinations of perfidious Albion," and explain to the faithful the persecutions to which the English subject the Irish Catholics.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Durand, John
