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What is the best treatment for a burn? The Chinese swear by tea. U.S. doctors, who have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
...learned from signal fires on the peaks that Habsburg rule had ended. This year as always, nearly all the day's eloquent oratory, in big cities or small hamlets, ended with the sentence from Schiller's William Tell: "Wir wollen frei sein wie die Voter waren" ("We swear we will be free as were our fathers...
...Perhaps it would be wise if the new pastor first took some sort of oath. We suggest the following .. . . : "I, Pastor -, hereby swear to be intellectually and morally honest at all times except when by being so I might hurt the feelings of a first-rate citizen. I will be particularly careful to say nothing that will bring disgrace on the Pastoral Relations Committee, and glory and a future in the hinterlands on myself, as did my unfortunate predecessor, Pastor John Safran...
...guard who relieved him on one of the seized boats, an 18-year-old pfc. from Tennessee drawled: "Ah swear ah did not hear a shot fired, but sure's shootin my kids'll read this in the history book some general'll dream...
...impressive, grey-haired man, stooped with outdoor labor and powerful with outdoor strength. He feels most at ease in overalls but looks just as much at home in city clothes. Integrity and gravity are written in the character lines of his face. He is deeply religious. He does not swear, but, no prude, he does not hesitate to quote other men's oaths. His fiercest epithet, uttered with terrifying inflection about people who drink too much, is: "Dirty bats!" Gus has never tasted liquor...