Sworn
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179 examples of Sworn in a sentence
What! he had
sworn
with them the day before, and now they found him down below with the others!
you have
sworn
with the others!"
There was no work going on at Jean-Bart, and he had
sworn
to kill her if she worked again at the Voreux, where he feared that she would compromise him, So what was to be done?--to
He had
sworn
never to go down again; whence then came this sudden decision, arising from his lips without thought of his, without even a moment's discussion?
No doubt he had sworn; only it could not be called life to wait with folded arms for things which would perhaps happen in a hundred years; and, besides, reasons of his own had decided him.
A cage was embarking its men, and the batch disappeared; as others arrived he saw at last one of his lieutenants in the strike, a worthy fellow who had
sworn
to die.
I viewed him as outside humanity, beyond all feelings of compassion, the implacable foe of his fellow man, toward whom he must have
sworn
an undying hate!
He would have seen it as his
sworn
duty to destroy a contrivance of this kind just as promptly as a gigantic narwhale.
His
sworn
hate for humanity, a hate that perhaps was bent on some dreadful revenge--what had provoked it?
A friend of mine, Captain Paul Bos of Le Havre, has often
sworn
to me that he encountered one of these monsters of colossal size in the seas of the East Indies.
And now, even though his identity was still unknown, at least the nations allied against him knew they were no longer hunting some fairy-tale monster, but a man who had
sworn
an implacable hate toward them!
The parapet of this wall, to secure which M. de Renal was obliged to make three journeys to Paris, for the Minister of the Interior before last had
sworn
a deadly enmity to the Verrieres avenue; the parapet of this wall now rises four feet above the ground.
Julien, who knew all that was to be known about feminine beauty, would have
sworn
at that moment that she was no more than twenty.
He would have sworn, before this caprice of the Marquis, that it would be impossible to be received by him with greater deference.
'I wish to remind myself,' she told him, 'that I am your servant: should my accursed pride ever make me forget it, show me these locks and say: "There is no question now of love, we are not concerned with the emotion that your heart may be feeling at this moment, you have
sworn
to obey, obey upon your honour."'
Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be
sworn
at.
At last, an empty cab turned up (it is a street where, as a rule, and when they are not wanted, empty cabs pass at the rate of three a minute, and hang about, and get in your way), and packing ourselves and our belongings into it, and shooting out a couple of Montmorency's friends, who had evidently
sworn
never to forsake him, we drove away amidst the cheers of the crowd, Biggs's boy shying a carrot after us for luck.
I fancy he must have belonged to some society
sworn
to abstain from bread and jam; for he declined it quite gruffly, as if he were vexed at being tempted with it, and he added that it was his duty to turn us off.
"Peyton Dunwoodie!" said Frances, solemnly, and with a face of ashy paleness, "you have told me - you have sworn, that you love me--""I do," interrupted the soldier, with fervor; but motioning for silence she continued, in a voice that trembled with her fears,-"Do you think I can throw myself into the arms of a man whose hands are stained with the blood of my only brother!""Frances, you wring my very heart!"
Occasionally he would pay a visit to the wounded Englishman, who, being more hurt in the spirit than in the flesh, tolerated the interruptions with a very ill grace; and once, for an instant, he ventured to steal softly to the bed of his obstinate comrade, and was near succeeding in obtaining a touch of his pulse, when a terrible oath,
sworn
by the trooper in a dream, startled the prudent surgeon, and warned him of a trite saying in the corps, "that Captain Lawton always slept with one eye open."
He was sworn, and desired to relate what he knew.
The two boys were
sworn
friends all the week, and embattled enemies on Saturdays.
Just at this point he met his soul's
sworn
comrade, Joe Harper--hard-eyed, and with evidently a great and dismal purpose in his heart.
Even at that distance I could have
sworn
to the slope of his shoulders and the way he carried his head.
The trembling clown replied that as he lived and by the oath he had
sworn
(though he had not
sworn
any) it was not so much; for there were to be taken into account and deducted three pairs of shoes he had given him, and a real for two blood-lettings when he was sick.
"He will do nothing of the kind," said Don Quixote; "I have only to command, and he will obey me; and as he has
sworn
to me by the order of knighthood which he has received, I leave him free, and I guarantee the payment."
"For the perfumery I excuse you," said Don Quixote; "give it to him in reals, and I shall be satisfied; and see that you do as you have sworn; if not, by the same oath I swear to come back and hunt you out and punish you; and I shall find you though you should lie closer than a lizard.
And if you desire to know who it is lays this command upon you, that you be more firmly bound to obey it, know that I am the valorous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and injustices; and so, God be with you, and keep in mind what you have promised and
sworn
under those penalties that have been already declared to you."
The peasant folk, who are naturally malicious, and when they have nothing to do can be malice itself, remarked all this, and took note of his finery and jewellery, piece by piece, and discovered that he had three suits of different colours, with garters and stockings to match; but he made so many arrangements and combinations out of them, that if they had not counted them, anyone would have
sworn
that he had made a display of more than ten suits of clothes and twenty plumes.
It appeared afterwards that the duke had
sworn
that if they had not washed him as they had Don Quixote he would have punished them for their impudence, which they adroitly atoned for by soaping him as well.
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