Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will run their own and others risks from their desk-chairs. Until that becomes impossible each nation must maintain its defense. Nor will it do any good for men to pledge themselves to anything. The hardest drinkers in a community are always those who, as Sunday School children, swore never to touch a drop of liquor; and it's the confirmed bachelors who fall for the chores girls...
Ramon loved the girl whom his brother Pedro had successfully wooed, and one day while the lilting strains of the Habanera sounded, Ramon stabbed Pedro. But Pedro before he died swore that he would come back to haunt his brother, would come back while the Habanera sounded. He did. The ghost, strumming a guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young...
...honor as a man," he swore, " and as an adopted citizen of the United States, with all sympathy for other people in their struggles toward realization of an ideal of freedom, I declare that I believe the Republic of the United States of America is the best form of government on the earth today...
...Pretty Señorita Maria Moreno and Juan Heredia stood up in meeting and solemnly swore to be faithful to each other as long as the system worked, or 'until such time as we agree to part...
...were not so foolish it would appear highly amusing to see Massachusetts, one of the leaders both in the establishing and the holding together of the Union, now by an act of her legislature, and with the approval of her public officials, who when they were elected swore an oath to support loyally the Constitution, attempting to set aside a provision duly incorporated into the supreme law of the land...