This was comfortable news to all present; and my captain, who had been some time on his knees, leapt suddenly up, and testified his joy with a great oath.
Booth rapt out a great oath, and cried, "It is impossible; my wife is not capable of using any one ill.
The laird made Duncan forbear him; but Duncan swore a great oath he would make him swim or he left the town, otherwise he would want of his will.
But the Abbot only swore a great oath, and vowed that the money must be paid that day or the lands be forfeited.
This was the work of Robin Hood and his merry men, on whom the King swore vengeance with a great oath.
Neither Robin nor any of his men believed him, but he took a great oath that he would never seek to do them harm, and that if he found any of them in evil plight he would deliver them out of it.
Then Hereward swore a great oath, by oak and ash and thorn, that he would neither eat bread nor drink water while there was a Norman left in Bourne.
And the men swore a great oath, and kept it, never to give quarter to a Norman, as long as there was one left on English ground.
And Sweyn Ulfsson rose again, and said with a great oath, "That if there had been three such men as Hereward in England, all would have gone well.
It is a great oath, and a hard one," said Brimblecombe; "but God will give us strength to keep it.
So underneath that giant ceiba-tree, those valiant men, reduced by battle and sickness to some eighty, swore a great oath, and kept that oath like men.
To all which I Dare add heaven’s great oath, boldly swearing by All these so well-built entries of the Blest.
I shall live to make you rue this treatment;' and I swore a great oath that, come what might, she should never belong to Vere Egerton.
The black swore a great oath, and kicked my dog savagely in the jaws.
The latter grew paler and paler as he proceeded in its perusal; at its conclusion he crushed it in his hand, and swore a great oath.
Still more may I tell ye; he told my mother that he and many of his fellows had sworn a great oath to seek Sir Lancelot, and their quest should endure two years or more an they found him not, or could learn no tidings of him.
Gestas sprang to his feet with a great oath, and half drew his knife.
So they both sware a great oath; and they builded that day of the stones of the place a memorial, in token that as the stones which endure without change, even so must their compact remain.
This was the work of Robin Hood and his merry men, on whom the king swore vengeance with a great oath.
And you shall swear a great oath to do me any service that I shall ask of you, whensoever and wheresoever may seem good to me.
You yourself know that I am not guilty: and I will swear a great oath upon it:--No!
For he also had been one of the suitors of Helen the Fair, and had bound himself with a great oath that he would avenge her and her husband, whomsoever she should choose, on any man that should dare to do her wrong.
But first Jason had promised, swearing to her a great oath, that she should be his wife, and that he would take her with him to the land of Greece, and that he would be faithful unto her to his life's end.
Be he man or devil," protested Hardouin, with a great oath, "he shall find the pit more joysome than the dungeons of La Haye.
Baron, with a great oath, "I make nothing of all this wind.
Provencal with a great oath, and tore out of the room, leaving Mary quaking amid hysteric laughter.
Thou dost swear that, O Bara Miyan, by a great oath?
By the rising of the stars, which is a great oath!
But by the rising of the stars--and that is a great oath--the bullets of our long rifles can pierce thine unbelieving body!
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