false-hearted
Example Sentences
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Sleep if you can, you false-hearted crocodile!” said Rhoda, poetically, in distant imitation of the flowers of rhetoric of her friend Molly.
From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Horace Petherick
So Mr. Robert M'Gillies was consigned to his own lamentations in the dreary dungeons of Tothill-fields' Bridewell, and the false-hearted Julia Cob returned to her new lover in Norfolk-street.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by John Wight
Sir Percivale was very wroth, and cried, "Abide, wicked knight, coward and false-hearted knight, turn again and fight with me on foot."
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
And all that time Harold, false-hearted, fair-spoken, mean-spirited Harold, was enjoying himself and playing the gallant to Isabel Walters!
From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen
This is another instance of what so often seems to us a matter of wonder,—the power of a narrow-minded, mean-spirited, ill-tempered, false-hearted man to inflict pain on a noble and lofty nature.
From The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer
