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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

All the while the lawyers were glaring upon him as though he was perjuring himself with every word—as who would not be, under the circumstances?

From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline

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

There must be an oath drawn in language too precise to be explained away, in language which no Jacobite could repeat without the consciousness that he was perjuring himself.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron