Example Sentences

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“It will be betraying poor Malcolm,” he thought; but swayed round again directly after.

From Witness to the Deed by Fenn, George Manville

I don't think it will be betraying her confidence to say that she found her position of dependence extremely irksome; it seemed to cripple her soul.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel