Now we could let him get speech of the boy; and if any one heard of it, we would say it was only to see whether he could swear to the youth, and he would soon take any message to his people for him.
If I was on the rack I could swear to your voice although it is feigned, and though when you came to my crib you kept your face out of sight.
I went over the whole grounds this morning—and I could swearit was here that——" The conclusion of the sentence was muttered to himself, and therefore remained unheard by the valet.
I know it—I could swearto it: I can tell by the way that the key turns!
He had been reading or praying with his master before the physician had come in; he had been doing his duty (I could swear by his stern jaw), and making MacCailein Mor writhe to the flame of a conscience revived.
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
And this was really all I could swear to in the matter of his outward appearance; though I told myself confidently enough that if I actually fell in with him again I should recognise him fast enough.
I could swear it was German, but O'Brien, who contradicted everything, stuck to it it was Russian.
When I thought of them afterwards I could swear to nothing and finally concluded the whole thing was probably fancy.
Another would say, "I could swear I saw Layton as a witness in one of those pot-house trials where the course of law proceedings is made the matter of vulgar jest.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could swear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
