He laughed with audacious mockery as he surveyed the recreants.
"What Will He Do With It, Book 10."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Besides the open or concealed traitors, the Desmonds, and Kildares, and O'Neales, there were the men who were entrapped and overcome, and the men who disappointed hopes, and became recreants to their faith and loyalty; like Sir William Stanley, who, after a brilliant career in Ireland, turned traitor and apostate, and gave up Deventer and his Irish bands to the King of Spain.
"Spenser (English Men of Letters Series)"
R. W. Church
The priest found it easy to locate the recreants among the other rivermen; they shifted their eyes under his rebuking gaze.
"Joan of Arc of the North Woods"
Holman Day