was perjuring
- past progressive of perjure.
Example Sentences
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The apparent purpose was to make MacDonald out a habitual liar who was perjuring himself now no less than he may have done at the Billings-Mooney trials.
From Time Magazine Archive
Either Mr. Knight was telling what he believed to be true, or he was perjuring himself.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
The man was perjuring himself, under his own counsel's persistent questioning on a point which that counsel had evidently been warned by him to avoid.
From The House of the Whispering Pines by Green, Anna Katharine
Unfortunately, the witness who gave this testimony bore a very indifferent character, and I could see that more than one of the jurors suspected that he was perjuring himself.
From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by Cooke, John Esten
He turned very red again as he spoke, he felt he was perjuring himself horribly.
From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace
