Word: swearing
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...validity of marriage between members of another communion, solemnized in a Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, under the laws of the U. S. . . . There is much evidence which runs counter to the decision. . . . That any woman of middle age, after years of married, life, should be willing to swear that her parents sold her for worldly gain, and against her will, is a scandal. . . ." He came to his evident point: "If couples who have lived years in wedlock can procure annulments merely by discovering that undue pressure in some form was used at the time of their marriage, divorce...
...Four more minutes were consumed while the Senate met as the Senate to swear in David W. Stewart of Iowa as the successor of the late Senator Albert B. Cummins, and to hear the announcements and condolences of the deaths of Senators Cummins and Bert M. Fernald of Maine...
Denizens of woody niches who swear like witches...
...swear like angry witches...
...meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight to a mad prothalamium of crickets; lay together in cool damp grass and took counsel of a Debussy moon . . . "List, sweet Moon," Ruth said, "where I learned my loving . . ." Ruth was an amateur of the living moment; she could quote poetry, swear tenderly. The eventualities aboard their pirate-schooner, the Mary Read, on Chesapeake bay; their chicken-stealing, arrest, abduction of a judge, capture of a ferryboat, and highly improbable treasure hunt, are matters for the thrice-fortunate reader to follow alone. The Significance being, simply, that the commonplace has suddenly, with sublime...