Word: swears
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...change of attitude which the law is gradually taking against the liquor dealers is very gratifying. A brand is always but upon one who sells liquor. It is taken for granted that he is a scoundrel, and it takes two men to swear that he is not before he may secure a license...
...diction is fairly exact - although there are several marked errors. For instance, a man doesn't "use swear-words", he "swears" or he "cusses." And we wonder, also, when a "girl's deep blue eye twinkles with humor," what she does with the other. Possibly she winks it! The whole thing is a marionette show in which the principal puppets are manipulated in an unskillful manner. The author of the story has shown himself capable of far better work...
...traders. It has been said too that the Jew was not a patriot. How could a Jew be a patriot in the Middle Ages. He was not permitted to occupy a domicile for more than a few years, was then compelled to flee and was thus able to swear allegiance only to the world at largel...
Students who apply for admission to the University of Mississippi must first swear that they have no firearms about them, and that no person or persons have any in keeping for them...
...teachers "organized" in a grand union, but while they confined themselves to legal means they effected nothing. So the Union teachers proceeded to "boycott" the graduates of the chancellor who had refused to join the union and to swear to its statutes and to pay its assessments...