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This, Denery points out, gave liars some flexibility: They could perhaps justify their perjuries with a crop of favorable outcomes—not just for their neighbors, but for themselves too.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2015

Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution.

From Time Magazine Archive

The defense drew from Cook the admission that he had not been indicted for any of his perjuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

What are a lover's perjuries to the lies such a man tells all day long?—lies only to be reckoned by that machine that records the revolutions of a screw in a steamer.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

Yet, if thou swear'st, Thou may'st prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say Jove laughs.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry