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I wish you may think this a handsome farewell to my 'Friendly Traitress.'

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.

I wish you may think this a handsome farewell to my "Friendly Traitress."

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

Although he was angry with Parmetella, yet his blood could not turn to water, and seeing her grieving thus he said to her, "Traitress, what makes you weep so?"

From Stories from the Pentamerone by Basile, Giambattista

Now as Parmetella ran crying after the instruments, she met Thunder-and-Lightning, who scolded her well, saying, "Traitress, will you not learn at your cost that by your fatal curiosity you are brought to this plight?"

From Stories from the Pentamerone by Basile, Giambattista

His advocate she can be, not her own, If, Traitress to thy sex! one sister calls.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George