"Betray" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... streak, sending up nuggets to the surface, and dirt which often averaged ten dollars to the pan, I said to myself, 'Every shovelful you dig out, and every fire you light, and every billet you stack, is helping Spurling to betray you the earlier.' ...
— Murder Point - A Tale of Keewatin • Coningsby Dawson
... years before the birth of Christ, it was foretold in Holy Writ in what manner He should be born, and in what manner He should die. It was predicted that a Virgin should conceive and that a Judas should betray, and that both were necessary "that the Scriptures might ...
— Palmistry for All • Cheiro
... if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various
... now is up,—the owl hoots in the wood, The trees sigh and moan, and the water runs black; The tears down my cheeks roll a sorrowful flood,— And my heart throbs to tell me he'll never come back. Oh, woe, woe is me! Did he mean to betray? Must my ruin the price of his perfidy be? No, the river shall hide me and bear me away; Cold Calder receive me, I'm ...
— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley
... the person that did it is in this house. Listen, your honour. I have borne the name of killing Erris Boyne, and I ought to have killed him, for he was a traitor. I had proofs of it; but I did not kill him, and I did not betray him, for he had alive a wife and daughter, and something was due to them. He was a traitor, and was in league with the French. It does not matter that I tell you now, for his daughter knows the truth. I ought to have told it long ago, and if ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
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