perfidious Albion
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Oh, the huffing and the puffing, the outrage, the denunciation of perfidious Albion, the burning of their own vineyards by furious French winemakers!
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012
Monty: Now, by Britannia's word and bond I swear�Stalin: O, swear not by perfidious Albion Who monthly visiteth America.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Australia's fresh exposure of perfidious Albion, His Majesty was said by courtiers to have reacted with the saltiest of his salty oaths.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles through."
From Time Magazine Archive
Nothing was too disloyal for perfidious Albion, but for 30,000 English to outmanœuvre three marshals and 100,000 French veterans would be, and was, the unexpected which happened at Talavera three weeks later.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
