Sworn

Examples

• You have already done me good, and you and I are now, I hope, sworn friends. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I am to be sworn, my Lord, am I? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I have so sworn never to speak to you again, that I shall not be able to support their incessant quizzing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Fanny and our new acquaintance Julia soon became sworn friends. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You have been sworn. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Nay, be not wroth with me, said the Knight; thou knowest I am thy sworn friend and comrade. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Not so, answered Fitzurse; I will take sanctuary in this church of Saint Peter--the Archbishop is my sworn brother. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You said nothing so well, Sir Knight, I will be sworn, when you held drunken vespers with the bluff Hermit. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I have so sworn to Worcester that he would not be successful. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But I have been kicked and cuffed and sworn at, and at the best only let alone; and what do I owe? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In the course of a week, the civilian was her sworn slave and frantic admirer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Kantos Kan with the others who had sworn allegiance to me still stood upon the Throne of Righteousness with me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Milor had better not wear that military coat, said he; the Frenchmen have sworn not to give quarter to a single British soldier. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Swear me, if you please, Sir;' and sworn the chemist was, before the judge could find words to utter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mrs. Piper sworn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Worcester is gone to his papa's, at Badminton; and I, being sworn to constancy, have no other _beaux_ to write about. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• What of his heart sworn to virginity? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Upon Hor Vastus devolved the delicate mission of organising a secret force of fighting-men sworn to follow John Carter wherever he might lead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• How he had, thereupon, sworn his landlord, Mr Rugg, to secrecy in a solemn manner, and taken him into Moleing partnership. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live--to die; I have at last my nameless bliss. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I advocate them: I am sworn to spread them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I am the sworn servant of both, against you. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Mr. Smallweed nods and appears greedy to be sworn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Winkle entered the witness-box, and having been duly sworn, bowed to the judge with considerable deference. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Absent from me a whole month, and forgetting me quite, I'll be sworn! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I dare be sworn he did so, said the knight; I was convinced that there was better food in the cell, Holy Clerk, since you first doffed your cowl. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Why, I could have sworn to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yet, I would have sworn thy thought had been more on the old usurer's money bags, than on the black eyes of the daughter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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