Oaths

Examples

• He swore ominous oaths over the drugged beer of alehouses, and drank strange toasts in fiery British gin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The party of horsemen came up to the fence, and, with mingled shouts and oaths, were dismounting, to prepare to follow them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Besides, such hollow oaths would have been vain as void. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The former Protector tendered him the oaths, and presented him with the insignia of office, performing the ceremonies of installation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Neither will he ever break faith where there have been oaths or agreements? Plato. The Republic.
• I'm Cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab, shrieked Snipes, with a volley of frightful oaths. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Oaths, as from soldiers to their general, had been taken by them: these they broke. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We believed in the oaths and promises of princes whom we suffered to remain upon their thrones. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The gardener, on approaching him, had been hunted out, with oaths and threats, to get the horse and chaise ready instantly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• With a caution, backed by many oaths, to make no more efforts to go out that night, Sikes left her to recover at leisure and rejoined Fagin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Their oaths I hear at this moment: they shook my philosophy more than did the night, or the isolation, or the strangeness of the scene. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I ask you again,' thundered the doctor, 'are you, on your solemn oaths, able to identify that boy? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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