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Perjury was a penitentiary offense.
To make a false affidavit is perjury.
Rose was thereupon committed for perjury.
This abominable perjury she stoutly maintained.
Do not tempt me to perjury and dishonor.
Your defense was a sham and a perjury.
You are impudent enough to charge me with perjury!
The affidavits bristled with forgery and perjury.
Perjury and even forgery were freely resorted to.
You would incite me to degrading perjury and treason?
There are also accusations of base and willful perjury.
Why mention the base perjuries of your perfidious tongue?
If forgery did not matter, why should perjury?
Think upon your lust, your perjury, inhumanity, and hypocrisy!
To banish a child, means perjury of business allies.
A man might conceivably come forward and commit perjury.
Summed up, it is the use of slander and perjury.
This was not the prelude to perjury and expulsion.
Among slaves perjury was punished by mutilation and whipping.
Merrick charges that the second oath was willful perjury.
I am very reluctant to impute perjury to such a person.
He is ruined by covetousness, perjury, murder, theft, and strife.
Perjury is the crime of willfully making a false oath.
Here the cure created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.
Indicted for perjury, he effected an escape in a marvelous manner.
In his name I absolve your perjury and sanctify your arms.
Scoundrels betray noble men, and commit perjury without scruple.
A loud resounding smack frequently prefaced the most patent perjury.
You shall die for perjury, falsehood, murder, theft, slander, deceit!
He, too, stood unabashed while he poured out his tale of perjury.
See the effects of this widespread profanity in the increasing perjury.
A clear alibi was established; and perjury had certainly been committed.
Deceit, perjury, sacrilege, would be terms too weak for the act.
Harold had the weight of perjury and usurpation on his soul.
All sorts of hideous complications are going on: blackmail and perjury!
In this document the king recounts a long list of perjuries.
Do not add blasphemy and perjury to the rest of your iniquities.
Are you acquainted with the penalty attached to the crime of perjury?
And the nobles cried "That is sacrilege and leads to perjury."
The same year Blanch Howell willfully, unsolicited and unasked, committed perjury.
Perjury out of a single word can make a hangman's rope and noose.
It would be perjury, and it would have to be handsomely paid for.
That witness, wearing the ruff or collar, declined to commit perjury.
The annals of crime scarcely contain a more gross example of perjury.
The folio reads perjury; 'penury' is the correction of the 2nd folio.
When she was eighteen years old, she was imprisoned for perjury.
Perjury is as rife as ever, and works as much wrong as ever.
It was perjury and sacrilege, and earthly shame, and eternal damnation.
They have committed treason, murder, arson, burglary, robbery, larceny and perjury.
If persisted in, my client will indict the witness for perjury.
He had been indicted for perjury, and by some means had escaped.
Witness the agreeable perjuries of lovers; the pleasing pastime of fond hearts!
Have you been guiltless of perjury in respect of your vows and your love?
They could not, above all, endure this immensity of perjury and sacrilege.
It required a deal of perjury to save the murderer from noose and trap.
By this time the pillory was rarely used save in cases of perjury.
"Why don't you ask me if I approve of perjury, arson, and poisoning?"
They held that Charles had by his perjury forfeited the crown.
Certain forms of blasphemy also were brought before it, and perjury as well.
It is born of the same parentage as robbery, perjury, arson and murder.
The punishments inflicted for forgery, coining base money, and perjury were arbitrary.
Men were put in the pillory for perjury, libel, and the like.
Cronin was expelled, a convicted liar, who added perjury to his slander.
The lawyers were mostly convicts, and perjury in the courts was rife.
The senate sought to punish him, not for perjury but for sacrilege.
Suffice it, I have added perjury and sin to rashness and to sorrow.
And yet her beauty might excuse a falsehood; Nay, almost sanctify a perjury.
Abstinence from murder would not absolve him from the guilt of perjury.
Murders still further aggravated by the included crimes of ingratitude and perjury!
Murders still farther aggravated by the included crimes of ingratitude and perjury!
Or have you been personally conveniently absolved from the 'eternal' consequences of your perjury?
Perjury is a sacrilegious falsehood, and the first sin against the Second Commandment.
The English system of requiring unanimity was equivalent to enforcing perjury by torture.
He took the bull by the horns, and he indicted him for perjury.
Such a verdict would be the spawn of prejudice, and cowardice, and perjury.
Here, in their proper shape and mien Fraud, perjury, and guilt are seen.
He did not swear that he agreed to commit any frauds, perjuries, or forgeries.
Perhaps experience had taught the bench that perjury was not a preventable crime.
I'll bring him to the pillory; his ears shall pay for his perjuries.
The violation of a contract so consecrated was considered tantamount to an act of perjury.
Several witnesses had been indicted for perjury in connection with the graft investigation.
A too frequent use of the oath will easily lead to irreverence, and thence to perjury.
Not Demetrius, certainly, although the calligraphy would have caused an expert to commit perjury.
Murder trials would be expensive and almost interminable, defiled with perjury and sentiment.
If he rejects this authority, he must read a little farther on perjury for penury.
Perjury is a variety of aphasia, leading a man to say one thing instead of another.
Without this competency no man could be justly held responsible for slander or perjury.
The frauds and perjury against naturalization laws were committed by persons proficient in English.
As if any law could take away the moral obligation of a vow, and neutralize perjury!
Undemocratic in principles, because it is an interference with individual business and a premium upon perjury.
In the face of injustice, perjury, or physical danger, he was always calm, firm, dispassionate.
Fallen into the hands of one whose whole soul is fraud, corruption, perjury, and baseness?
Forgery and perjury when brought home to the real criminals necessarily made their case worse.
Therefore, that settlement counts for nothing, except to make him punishable for perjury now.
Perjury is willfully swearing or affirming falsely to any material matter, upon an oath legally administered.
Then followed the twenty-two months of the investigation for perjury and incitement to perjury.
Does it mean to enlarge one's property daily, oppress the poor and induce men to perjury?
That commandment forbids, not chiefly profanity, but perjury; by implication it permits judicial oaths.
Alma's perjury in court had revealed all to Henry, and reduced him to apathetic despair.
Murder, and theft, and adultery, sacrilege, perjury, lying his very life is made of them.