Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

Had he not seen [him], under disguises that were so grimy and so loathsome that they would have repelled the most abject, suborned spy?

Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

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I suborned any number of women from whom I learned nothing.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 6]

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—whether suborned boys—a numerous band of mercenaries—might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery,

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)