Word: swearing
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...undergo rigorous initiations before being qualified for membership. In one of the more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
...editor in charge of the purchase of this cultivated bird, confessed to an inquiring Crimson reporter, that it is prerequisite that the parrot be able to swear in the conventional manner, and that he also be able to discuss life and letters in an intelligent way with the members of the Advocate Board...
...presence of half a dozen student friends. "There is no limit to freedom of the will!" raged Student Slovo-chotov, "I am prepared to do anything at any time!" "Prepared to commit murder-?" taunted the petite, personable Zina. "You couldn't kill me, could you Sergei?" "Yes, I swear it! If anyone here will sign a document saying I am not to blame, I am ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced...
Polykushka, however, is showing. Its simple story is the tragedy of a 19th Century serf, a drunkard and a petty thief. His mistress forgives him a serious larceny, provided he swear on the Cross to mend his ways. This the poor wretch solemnly does, whereupon, to prove her faith in him, the benefactress despatches him to bring a purse of rubles from the village. In the course of the errand, the money is accidentally lost. The miserable serf hangs himself from a rafter in the barn, while an honest traveler returns the money found along the roadside, to the owner...
...experienced regeneration. But he devised tenets more like those of the Quakers than Luther's. Mennonites discard priesthood, own no authority outside the Bible and "enlightened conscience," stress the sanctity of human life (hence will not fight in any war) and "a man's word" (hence never swear...