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Anyone who endangered the international security of the Soviet Union was deemed a traitor deserving death.
For many Russians, Nemtsov's opposition to the war in Ukraine made him a traitor, whose death was justified – indeed, almost demanded – by national necessity.
Having spent the past two years denouncing anyone who challenged Brexit as “enemies of the people” and a traitor to democracy, the BBC, TheTimes, and other influential media organs have suddenly remembered that an essential principle of democracy is that voters have the right to change their minds.
Maduro calls me a traitor, because Colombia opposes the proliferating violations of human and democratic rights in his country.
But you cannot compromise with an enemy or a traitor, any more than a religious person can compromise over something he holds sacred.
But it also knows that it cannot risk becoming labeled a traitor to Irish nationalism.
At last they threw handfuls of frozen moss at him, and a woman cried in a shrill voice:"Down with the traitor!"
"Down with the traitor!" repeated a thousand voices, while stones began to whistle by.
"By God! is this the rendezvous you called us to?"Imprecations broke out and there was a movement of the crowd towards the traitor.
And in their rage at not finding a traitor's face to strike, they attacked things.
"Kill him! the traitor!
"Ah, traitor! by God! you've got it coming to you now!"
"Ah! by God! here I am," she stammered, out of breath; "that traitor Pierron, who shut me up in the cellar!"
There must always be a traitor somewhere!'
The captain of dragoons made no reply; and, while placing some bandages on the wounded shoulder, the surgeon continued,- "If I have any wish at all to destroy human life, it is to have the pleasure of seeing that traitor hanged."
"Then here I deliver to your hands a condemned traitor.
"And a traitor to your country," continued the major, with sternness.
"Seize the traitor!" cried the major, "and wrest the secret from his hands."
Tom chased the traitor home, and thus found out where he lived.
You acted as a traitor to Camille.""Do you mean to say that I alone am guilty?" he inquired.
To have a bout of kicking at that traitor of a Ganelon he would have given his housekeeper, and his niece into the bargain.
"The devil take thee, man," said Don Quixote; "what has a helmet to do with fulling mills?""I don't know," replied Sancho, "but, faith, if I might speak as I used, perhaps I could give such reasons that your worship would see you were mistaken in what you say.""How can I be mistaken in what I say, unbelieving traitor?" returned Don Quixote; "tell me, seest thou not yonder knight coming towards us on a dappled grey steed, who has upon his head a helmet of gold?""What I see and make out," answered Sancho, "is only a man on a grey ass like my own, who has something that shines on his head."
I had no power to utter a cry, nor, I think, did he give me time to utter one, as he immediately approached me, and taking me in his arms (for, overwhelmed as I was, I was powerless, I say, to help myself), he began to make such professions to me that I know not how falsehood could have had the power of dressing them up to seem so like truth; and the traitor contrived that his tears should vouch for his words, and his sighs for his sincerity.
I called my waiting-maid to me, that there might be a witness on earth besides those in Heaven, and again Don Fernando renewed and repeated his oaths, invoked as witnesses fresh saints in addition to the former ones, called down upon himself a thousand curses hereafter should he fail to keep his promise, shed more tears, redoubled his sighs and pressed me closer in his arms, from which he had never allowed me to escape; and so I was left by my maid, and ceased to be one, and he became a traitor and a perjured man.
"Let her be who she may," replied Don Quixote, "I will do what is my bounden duty, and what my conscience bids me, in conformity with what I have professed;" and turning to the damsel he said, "Let your great beauty rise, for I grant the boon which you would ask of me.""Then what I ask," said the damsel, "is that your magnanimous person accompany me at once whither I will conduct you, and that you promise not to engage in any other adventure or quest until you have avenged me of a traitor who against all human and divine law, has usurped my kingdom."
"How! never seen her, blasphemous traitor!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "hast thou not just now brought me a message from her?""I mean," said Sancho, "that I did not see her so much at my leisure that I could take particular notice of her beauty, or of her charms piecemeal; but taken in the lump I like her.""Now I forgive thee," said Don Quixote; "and do thou forgive me the injury I have done thee; for our first impulses are not in our control."
Let the traitor pay with his life for the temerity of his wanton wishes, and let the world know (if haply it shall ever come to know) that Camilla not only preserved her allegiance to her husband, but avenged him of the man who dared to wrong him.
But tell me, traitor, when did I by word or sign give a reply to thy prayers that could awaken in thee a shadow of hope of attaining thy base wishes?
These Arabs cut off his head and carried it to the commander of the Turkish fleet, who proved on them the truth of our Castilian proverb, that "though the treason may please, the traitor is hated;" for they say he ordered those who brought him the present to be hanged for not having brought him alive.
Some days ago I became acquainted with your misfortune and the cause which impels you to take up arms again and again to revenge yourselves upon your enemies; and having many times thought over your business in my mind, I find that, according to the laws of combat, you are mistaken in holding yourselves insulted; for a private individual cannot insult an entire community; unless it be by defying it collectively as a traitor, because he cannot tell who in particular is guilty of the treason for which he defies it.
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