Word: swear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...light gleaming in your room as you return across the Yard, to have some one to call to you or growl at you as you open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been...
...only swear, swear...
...seen it, I can swear...
FRESHMAN (wearily). I wish to goodness that I could swear off of cigarettes; I believe that they 're worse than cigars...
...this little poem make her swear...