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To borrow and only slightly treasonously modify the signal sent by Nelson aboard HMS Victory at Trafalgar, before the big guns started booming, Uncle Sam expects that every Eagle will do his duty.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2015

A handsome Canadian who had won acclaim in Shakespearean roles, Plummer famously resisted the spirit of the enterprise, which he treasonously renamed “The Sound of Mucus.”

From Time • Mar. 2, 2015

To official Canada, the whole affair was purely domestic: some civil servants obviously had acted, if not treasonously, at least unpatriotically in giving away � or perhaps selling � atom-bomb data and other information.

From Time Magazine Archive