Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot talk!" he finally managed to shout. "I will only say that if you think anything I have done has helped to bring about this glorious moment in our history, I swear by my beloved country that I am ready to do more, much more-anything that may be necessary to insure the foundation at last of a really republican form of government in Brazil...
Number Two, also a yearling, speaks. A spectator watching him through field glasses would not swear that his lips move...
...great body of archaic statutes, enacted as the "Law of Property Act of 1922" ; 2) the Constitution of the Irish Free State which he worked out with Michael Collins and to which he contributed the ingenious "Oath of Fealty," having discovered that Irish Parliamen tarians would choke rather than swear an oath of allegiance to George V. Matter of fact fealty implies a lower grovel than allegiance...
...horses and mules as they came close. We spread germs in their food and in their drinking troughs. We did it at the stockyards north of Van Cortlandt Park, maybe just across the Yonkers city line, where horses were being collected [by the Allies] for shipment to France. I swear...
Last week the five new commissioners marched up on their courtlike bench, raised their right-hands, took the standard oath of office ("I swear to uphold the Constitution...