The 6,537 occurrences of bastard

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,486   ~   ~   ~

It is demanded from bastard Arabs, and from tribes who, like the Hutaym and the Khalawiyah, have been born basely or have become “nidering.” And these people are obliged to pay it at home as well as abroad.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,981   ~   ~   ~

It nurtures a frail democracy, and from its bastard offspring we have a tyrant dying by the hand of a tyrant, and the spoils of tyranny serving the good growth of the Christian church.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,361   ~   ~   ~

Thou wearest false robes; thou blasphemest against heaven, that thy strength in wrong may be secure-yea, we fear thy end is fast coming badly, for thou art the bastard offspring of Republicanism so purely planted in our land.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 443   ~   ~   ~

A patten may be made by the hammer of a mortal, and a bastard may be dropped by a human strumpet.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 969   ~   ~   ~

He now thought himself again at liberty to expose the cruelty of his mother; and therefore, I believe, about this time, published "The Bastard," a poem remarkable for the vivacious sallies of thought in the beginning, where he makes a pompous enumeration of the imaginary advantages of base birth, and the pathetic sentiments at the end, where he recounts the real calamities which he suffered by the crime of his parents.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 972   ~   ~   ~

His mother, to whom the poem was with "due reverence" inscribed, happened then to be at Bath, where she could not conveniently retire from censure, or conceal herself from observation; and no sooner did the reputation of the poem begin to spread, than she heard it repeated in all places of concourse; nor could she enter the assembly-rooms or cross the walks without being saluted with some lines from "The Bastard."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 993   ~   ~   ~

He may be considered as a child exposed to all the temptations of indigence, at an age when resolution was not yet strengthened by conviction, nor virtue confirmed by habit; a circumstance which, in his "Bastard," he laments in a very affecting manner:-- "No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer; No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Called forth my virtues, or from vice restrained."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 994   ~   ~   ~

"The Bastard," however it might provoke or mortify his mother, could not be expected to melt her to compassion, so that he was still under the same want of the necessaries of life; and he therefore exerted all the interest which his wit, or his birth, or his misfortunes could procure to obtain, upon the death of Eusden, the place of Poet Laureate, and prosecuted his application with so much diligence that the king publicly declared it his intention to bestow it upon him; but such was the fate of Savage that even the king, when he intended his advantage, was disappointed in his schemes; for the Lord Chamberlain, who has the disposal of the laurel as one of the appendages of his office, either did not know the king's design, or did not approve it, or thought the nomination of the Laureate an encroachment upon his rights, and therefore bestowed the laurel upon Colley Cibber.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,363   ~   ~   ~

This is almost all that is usually remembered of her--that she was unfaithful to Napoleon, that she abandoned him in the hour of his defeat, and that she gave herself with readiness to one inferior in rank, yet with whom she lived for years, and to whom she bore what a French writer styled "a brood of bastards."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,009   ~   ~   ~

This is almost all that is usually remembered of her--that she was unfaithful to Napoleon, that she abandoned him in the hour of his defeat, and that she gave herself with readiness to one inferior in rank, yet with whom she lived for years, and to whom she bore what a French writer styled "a brood of bastards."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 347   ~   ~   ~

What a treacherous bastard.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,515   ~   ~   ~

The status of a child, one of whose parents is a metic, is little better than a bastard.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,925   ~   ~   ~

It then becomes a strange inconsistency that he caused military prisoners to be treated with barbarity, and the bastard sons of Saul to be hanged up before the Lord in Gibeon.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,600   ~   ~   ~

Mr. Steele, you are both a villain and a bastard, and have no right in law to this woman.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 10,628   ~   ~   ~

For my part, I say with the bastard in King John, though with a little more reverence, and only as touching his ambition, Oh!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 369   ~   ~   ~

It was Pepin's bastard, Charles the Hammer, whose tremendous blows completed his father's work.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 18   ~   ~   ~

The wretched profligate who was thus selected to mate with the Emperor's eldest born child and to appropriate the fair demesnes of the Tuscan republic was nominally the offspring of Lorenzo de Medici by a Moorish slave, although generally reputed a bastard of the Pope himself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 404   ~   ~   ~

This "quidam," as she called him--for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter--had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 369   ~   ~   ~

It was Pepin's bastard, Charles the Hammer, whose tremendous blows completed his father's work.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,010   ~   ~   ~

The wretched profligate who was thus selected to mate with the Emperor's eldest born child and to appropriate the fair demesnes of the Tuscan republic was nominally the offspring of Lorenzo de Medici by a Moorish slave, although generally reputed a bastard of the Pope himself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,600   ~   ~   ~

This "quidam," as she called him--for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter--had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 366   ~   ~   ~

Why has poor Netherland thus become degenerate and bastard?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,059   ~   ~   ~

Why has poor Netherland thus become degenerate and bastard?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 581   ~   ~   ~

To the imperial bastard had been assigned the pre-eminence, but it was thought that the Grand Commander had been entitled to a more than equal share of the glory.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 64   ~   ~   ~

Between the Prince-royal and the imperial bastard, there had always been a deep animosity, the Infante having on one occasion saluted him with the most vigorous and offensive appellation which his illegitimate birth could suggest.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 74   ~   ~   ~

While the Moors were gasping out their last breath in Granada and Ronda, the Turks had wrested the island of Venus from the grasp of the haughty Republic Fainagosta had fallen; thousands of Venetians had been butchered with a ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed; the famous General Bragadino had been flayed; stuffed, and sent hanging on the yard- arm of a frigate; to Constantinople, as a present to the Commander of the Faithful; and the mortgage of Catherine Cornaro, to the exclusion of her husband's bastards, had been thus definitely cancelled.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 99   ~   ~   ~

It was a day when personal, audacity, not skilful tactics, was demanded, and the imperial bastard showed the metal he was made of.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 208   ~   ~   ~

The imperial bastard would derive but alight consideration from his paternal blood, in a country where illegitimate birth was more unfavorably regarded than in most other countries, and where a Brabantine edict, recently issued in name of the King; deprived ail political or civil functionaries not born in wedlock; of their offices.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 341   ~   ~   ~

At the very moment when the Escovedo letters and the correspondence with the German colonels had been laid before their eyes, it was a little too much that the double-dealing bastard of the double-dealing Emperor should read them a lecture upon sincerity.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 355   ~   ~   ~

Who could have conquered the holy sepulchre, or wrested a crown from its lawful wearer, whether in Italy, Muscovy, the Orient, or in the British Ultima Thule, more bravely than this imperial bastard, this valiant and romantic adventurer?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 21   ~   ~   ~

The imperial bastard was alone able to surpass, or even to equal the Italian prince in all martial and manly pursuits.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 142   ~   ~   ~

The contest for the succession which opened upon the death of the aged monarch was brief, and in fifty-eight days, the bastard Antonio, Philip's only formidable competitor, had been utterly defeated and driven forth to lurk, like 'a hunted wild beast, among rugged mountain caverns, with a price of a hundred thousand crowns upon his head.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 579   ~   ~   ~

To the imperial bastard had been assigned the pre-eminence, but it was thought that the Grand Commander had been entitled to a more than equal share of the glory.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,663   ~   ~   ~

Between the Prince-royal and the imperial bastard, there had always been a deep animosity, the Infante having on one occasion saluted him with the most vigorous and offensive appellation which his illegitimate birth could suggest.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,673   ~   ~   ~

While the Moors were gasping out their last breath in Granada and Ronda, the Turks had wrested the island of Venus from the grasp of the haughty Republic Fainagosta had fallen; thousands of Venetians had been butchered with a ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed; the famous General Bragadino had been flayed; stuffed, and sent hanging on the yard-arm of a frigate; to Constantinople, as a present to the Commander of the Faithful; and the mortgage of Catherine Cornaro, to the exclusion of her husband's bastards, had been thus definitely cancelled.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,698   ~   ~   ~

It was a day when personal, audacity, not skilful tactics, was demanded, and the imperial bastard showed the metal he was made of.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,807   ~   ~   ~

The imperial bastard would derive but alight consideration from his paternal blood, in a country where illegitimate birth was more unfavorably regarded than in most other countries, and where a Brabantine edict, recently issued in name of the King; deprived all political or civil functionaries not born in wedlock; of their offices.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,064   ~   ~   ~

At the very moment when the Escovedo letters and the correspondence with the German colonels had been laid before their eyes, it was a little too much that the double-dealing bastard of the double-dealing Emperor should read them a lecture upon sincerity.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,078   ~   ~   ~

Who could have conquered the holy sepulchre, or wrested a crown from its lawful wearer, whether in Italy, Muscovy, the Orient, or in the British Ultima Thule, more bravely than this imperial bastard, this valiant and romantic adventurer?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,362   ~   ~   ~

The imperial bastard was alone able to surpass, or even to equal the Italian prince in all martial and manly pursuits.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,807   ~   ~   ~

The contest for the succession which opened upon the death of the aged monarch was brief, and in fifty-eight days, the bastard Antonio, Philip's only formidable competitor, had been utterly defeated and driven forth to lurk, like 'a hunted wild beast, among rugged mountain caverns, with a price of a hundred thousand crowns upon his head.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 369   ~   ~   ~

It was Pepin's bastard, Charles the Hammer, whose tremendous blows completed his father's work.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,010   ~   ~   ~

The wretched profligate who was thus selected to mate with the Emperor's eldest born child and to appropriate the fair demesnes of the Tuscan republic was nominally the offspring of Lorenzo de Medici by a Moorish slave, although generally reputed a bastard of the Pope himself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,600   ~   ~   ~

This "quidam," as she called him--for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter--had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 13,325   ~   ~   ~

Why has poor Netherland thus become degenerate and bastard?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 14,972   ~   ~   ~

To the imperial bastard had been assigned the pre-eminence, but it was thought that the Grand Commander had been entitled to a more than equal share of the glory.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,056   ~   ~   ~

Between the Prince-royal and the imperial bastard, there had always been a deep animosity, the Infante having on one occasion saluted him with the most vigorous and offensive appellation which his illegitimate birth could suggest.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,066   ~   ~   ~

While the Moors were gasping out their last breath in Granada and Ronda, the Turks had wrested the island of Venus from the grasp of the haughty Republic Fainagosta had fallen; thousands of Venetians had been butchered with a ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed; the famous General Bragadino had been flayed; stuffed, and sent hanging on the yard-arm of a frigate; to Constantinople, as a present to the Commander of the Faithful; and the mortgage of Catherine Cornaro, to the exclusion of her husband's bastards, had been thus definitely cancelled.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,091   ~   ~   ~

It was a day when personal, audacity, not skilful tactics, was demanded, and the imperial bastard showed the metal he was made of.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,200   ~   ~   ~

The imperial bastard would derive but alight consideration from his paternal blood, in a country where illegitimate birth was more unfavorably regarded than in most other countries, and where a Brabantine edict, recently issued in name of the King; deprived all political or civil functionaries not born in wedlock; of their offices.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 17,457   ~   ~   ~

At the very moment when the Escovedo letters and the correspondence with the German colonels had been laid before their eyes, it was a little too much that the double-dealing bastard of the double-dealing Emperor should read them a lecture upon sincerity.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 17,471   ~   ~   ~

Who could have conquered the holy sepulchre, or wrested a crown from its lawful wearer, whether in Italy, Muscovy, the Orient, or in the British Ultima Thule, more bravely than this imperial bastard, this valiant and romantic adventurer?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 18,755   ~   ~   ~

The imperial bastard was alone able to surpass, or even to equal the Italian prince in all martial and manly pursuits.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 20,200   ~   ~   ~

The contest for the succession which opened upon the death of the aged monarch was brief, and in fifty-eight days, the bastard Antonio, Philip's only formidable competitor, had been utterly defeated and driven forth to lurk, like 'a hunted wild beast, among rugged mountain caverns, with a price of a hundred thousand crowns upon his head.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 48   ~   ~   ~

No foreign potentate, claiming to be vicegerent of Christ, had denounced Philip as a bastard and, usurper, or had, by means of a blasphemous fiction, which then was a terrible reality, severed the bonds of allegiance by which his subjects were held, cut him off from all communion with his fellow-creatures, and promised temporal rewards and a crown of glory in heaven to those who should succeed in depriving him of throne and life.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 497   ~   ~   ~

Elizabeth had bean again denounced as a bastard and usurper, and her kingdom had been solemnly conferred upon Philip, with title of defender of the Christian, faith, to have and to hold as tributary and feudatory of Rome.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 577   ~   ~   ~

Scions of royal houses, grandees of azure blood, the bastard of Philip II., the bastard of Savoy, the bastard of Medici, the Margrave of Burghaut, the Archduke Charles, nephew of the Emperor, the Princes of Ascoli and of Melfi, the Prince of Morocco, and others of illustrious name, with many a noble English traitor, like Paget, and Westmoreland, and Stanley, all hurried to the camp of Farnese, as to some famous tournament, in which it was a disgrace to chivalry if their names were not enrolled.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 90   ~   ~   ~

Men told each other, too, of a vague rumour, concerning which Alexander might have received information, and in which many believed, that Medina Sidonia was the bearer of secret orders to throw Farnese into bondage, so soon as he should appear, to send him a disgraced captive back to Spain for punishment, and to place the baton of command in the hand of the Duke of Pastrana, Philip's bastard by the Eboli.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 164   ~   ~   ~

It had been decided to carry the war into Spain itself, and Don Antonio, prior of Crato, bastard of Portugal, and pretender to its crown, had persuaded himself and the English government that his name would be potent to conjure with in that kingdom, hardly yet content with the Spanish yoke.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,005   ~   ~   ~

No foreign potentate, claiming to be vicegerent of Christ, had denounced Philip as a bastard and, usurper, or had, by means of a blasphemous fiction, which then was a terrible reality, severed the bonds of allegiance by which his subjects were held, cut him off from all communion with his fellow-creatures, and promised temporal rewards and a crown of glory in heaven to those who should succeed in depriving him of throne and life.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,187   ~   ~   ~

Elizabeth had bean again denounced as a bastard and usurper, and her kingdom had been solemnly conferred upon Philip, with title of defender of the Christian, faith, to have and to hold as tributary and feudatory of Rome.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,842   ~   ~   ~

Scions of royal houses, grandees of azure blood, the bastard of Philip II., the bastard of Savoy, the bastard of Medici, the Margrave of Burghaut, the Archduke Charles, nephew of the Emperor, the Princes of Ascoli and of Melfi, the Prince of Morocco, and others of illustrious name, with many a noble English traitor, like Paget, and Westmoreland, and Stanley, all hurried to the camp of Farnese, as to some famous tournament, in which it was a disgrace to chivalry if their names were not enrolled.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,212   ~   ~   ~

Men told each other, too, of a vague rumour, concerning which Alexander might have received information, and in which many believed, that Medina Sidonia was the bearer of secret orders to throw Farnese into bondage, so soon as he should appear, to send him a disgraced captive back to Spain for punishment, and to place the baton of command in the hand of the Duke of Pastrana, Philip's bastard by the Eboli.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,865   ~   ~   ~

It had been decided to carry the war into Spain itself, and Don Antonio, prior of Crato, bastard of Portugal, and pretender to its crown, had persuaded himself and the English government that his name would be potent to conjure with in that kingdom, hardly yet content with the Spanish yoke.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 110   ~   ~   ~

The right wing under Marshal de la Chatre consisted of three regiments of French and one of Germans, supporting three regiments of Spanish lancers, two cornets of German riders under the Bastard of Brunswick, and four hundred cuirassiers.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 171   ~   ~   ~

The Bastard of Brunswick, crawling from beneath a heap of slain, escaped with life.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 733   ~   ~   ~

As to your promises to me of friendship and fidelity, I confess to have dearly deserved them, nor do I repent, provided you do not change your Father--otherwise I shall be your bastard sister by the father's side--for I shall ever love a natural better than an adopted one.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 369   ~   ~   ~

Maurice was indignant that a Catholic, an outcast, and, as it was supposed, a bastard, should dare to mate with the daughter of William of Orange-Nassau; and there were many scenes of tenderness, reproaches, recriminations, and 'hysterica passio,' in which not only the lovers, the stadholder and his family, but also the high and mighty States-General, were obliged to enact their parts.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 560   ~   ~   ~

The right wing under Marshal de la Chatre consisted of three regiments of French and one of Germans, supporting three regiments of Spanish lancers, two cornets of German riders under the Bastard of Brunswick, and four hundred cuirassiers.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 621   ~   ~   ~

The Bastard of Brunswick, crawling from beneath a heap of slain, escaped with life.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,730   ~   ~   ~

As to your promises to me of friendship and fidelity, I confess to have dearly deserved them, nor do I repent, provided you do not change your Father--otherwise I shall be your bastard sister by the father's side--for I shall ever love a natural better than an adopted one.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,873   ~   ~   ~

Maurice was indignant that a Catholic, an outcast, and, as it was supposed, a bastard, should dare to mate with the daughter of William of Orange-Nassau; and there were many scenes of tenderness, reproaches, recriminations, and 'hysterica passio,' in which not only the lovers, the stadholder and his family, but also the high and mighty States-General, were obliged to enact their parts.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,119   ~   ~   ~

No foreign potentate, claiming to be vicegerent of Christ, had denounced Philip as a bastard and, usurper, or had, by means of a blasphemous fiction, which then was a terrible reality, severed the bonds of allegiance by which his subjects were held, cut him off from all communion with his fellow-creatures, and promised temporal rewards and a crown of glory in heaven to those who should succeed in depriving him of throne and life.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 10,301   ~   ~   ~

Elizabeth had bean again denounced as a bastard and usurper, and her kingdom had been solemnly conferred upon Philip, with title of defender of the Christian, faith, to have and to hold as tributary and feudatory of Rome.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 10,956   ~   ~   ~

Scions of royal houses, grandees of azure blood, the bastard of Philip II., the bastard of Savoy, the bastard of Medici, the Margrave of Burghaut, the Archduke Charles, nephew of the Emperor, the Princes of Ascoli and of Melfi, the Prince of Morocco, and others of illustrious name, with many a noble English traitor, like Paget, and Westmoreland, and Stanley, all hurried to the camp of Farnese, as to some famous tournament, in which it was a disgrace to chivalry if their names were not enrolled.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 11,326   ~   ~   ~

Men told each other, too, of a vague rumour, concerning which Alexander might have received information, and in which many believed, that Medina Sidonia was the bearer of secret orders to throw Farnese into bondage, so soon as he should appear, to send him a disgraced captive back to Spain for punishment, and to place the baton of command in the hand of the Duke of Pastrana, Philip's bastard by the Eboli.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 11,979   ~   ~   ~

It had been decided to carry the war into Spain itself, and Don Antonio, prior of Crato, bastard of Portugal, and pretender to its crown, had persuaded himself and the English government that his name would be potent to conjure with in that kingdom, hardly yet content with the Spanish yoke.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 12,618   ~   ~   ~

The right wing under Marshal de la Chatre consisted of three regiments of French and one of Germans, supporting three regiments of Spanish lancers, two cornets of German riders under the Bastard of Brunswick, and four hundred cuirassiers.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 12,679   ~   ~   ~

The Bastard of Brunswick, crawling from beneath a heap of slain, escaped with life.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 14,788   ~   ~   ~

As to your promises to me of friendship and fidelity, I confess to have dearly deserved them, nor do I repent, provided you do not change your Father--otherwise I shall be your bastard sister by the father's side--for I shall ever love a natural better than an adopted one.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,931   ~   ~   ~

Maurice was indignant that a Catholic, an outcast, and, as it was supposed, a bastard, should dare to mate with the daughter of William of Orange-Nassau; and there were many scenes of tenderness, reproaches, recriminations, and 'hysterica passio,' in which not only the lovers, the stadholder and his family, but also the high and mighty States-General, were obliged to enact their parts.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 688   ~   ~   ~

He had forced Conde into exile, intrigue with the enemy, and rebellion, by open and audacious efforts to destroy his domestic peace, and now he was willing to alienate one of his most powerful subjects in order to place his bastards on a level with royalty.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,366   ~   ~   ~

He had forced Conde into exile, intrigue with the enemy, and rebellion, by open and audacious efforts to destroy his domestic peace, and now he was willing to alienate one of his most powerful subjects in order to place his bastards on a level with royalty.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,368   ~   ~   ~

He had forced Conde into exile, intrigue with the enemy, and rebellion, by open and audacious efforts to destroy his domestic peace, and now he was willing to alienate one of his most powerful subjects in order to place his bastards on a level with royalty.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 372   ~   ~   ~

It was Pepin's bastard, Charles the Hammer, whose tremendous blows completed his father's work.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,014   ~   ~   ~

The wretched profligate who was thus selected to mate with the Emperor's eldest born child and to appropriate the fair demesnes of the Tuscan republic was nominally the offspring of Lorenzo de Medici by a Moorish slave, although generally reputed a bastard of the Pope himself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,603   ~   ~   ~

This "quidam," as she called him--for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter--had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 13,329   ~   ~   ~

Why has poor Netherland thus become degenerate and bastard?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 14,976   ~   ~   ~

To the imperial bastard had been assigned the pre-eminence, but it was thought that the Grand Commander had been entitled to a more than equal share of the glory.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,060   ~   ~   ~

Between the Prince-royal and the imperial bastard, there had always been a deep animosity, the Infante having on one occasion saluted him with the most vigorous and offensive appellation which his illegitimate birth could suggest.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,070   ~   ~   ~

While the Moors were gasping out their last breath in Granada and Ronda, the Turks had wrested the island of Venus from the grasp of the haughty Republic Fainagosta had fallen; thousands of Venetians had been butchered with a ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed; the famous General Bragadino had been flayed; stuffed, and sent hanging on the yard-arm of a frigate; to Constantinople, as a present to the Commander of the Faithful; and the mortgage of Catherine Cornaro, to the exclusion of her husband's bastards, had been thus definitely cancelled.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,095   ~   ~   ~

It was a day when personal, audacity, not skilful tactics, was demanded, and the imperial bastard showed the metal he was made of.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 16,204   ~   ~   ~

The imperial bastard would derive but alight consideration from his paternal blood, in a country where illegitimate birth was more unfavorably regarded than in most other countries, and where a Brabantine edict, recently issued in name of the King; deprived all political or civil functionaries not born in wedlock; of their offices.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 17,461   ~   ~   ~

At the very moment when the Escovedo letters and the correspondence with the German colonels had been laid before their eyes, it was a little too much that the double-dealing bastard of the double-dealing Emperor should read them a lecture upon sincerity.

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