An oath on the Quran is so firmly binding and the fear of perjury is so strong in the mind of the Moro that oaths are generally taken and are always regarded as sufficient confirmation even in the absence of evidence.
Differences between the vender and the vendee as to the amount or price of the property sold or date of the purchase shall be subject to oaths by both parties.
When he retired to Senlis, he summoned thither the Marquis de Coeuvres and his daughter, under pretext that the marquis might take his oaths as a member of the royal council.
The frequent examinations to which servants were at that time subjected, and the oaths by which it was attempted to extort discoveries from them, made Grizel and her mother afraid to commit the secret to any of these.
Behold all these principles of justice, morality, and liberty which you have laid down, hailed with joy, and oaths renewed, but violated immediately with unprecedented audacity and rage.
The Assembly, who had several times interrupted the reading of this manifesto by bursts of laughter or murmurs of indignation, proceeded with disdain to the order of the day, and received the oaths of the generals employed at Paris.
His presence seemed to place the oaths of the people and the king under the guard of the armed citizens.
He did not betray his country, or sell his subjects; but he did not observe his oaths to the constitution or his country.
A teeming cause o' broken oaths the marriage sarvice; yet each new pair comes along like sheep to the slaughter.
Oaths and abusive language followed; but the stranger did not wait to hear more.
Then, trembling with impotent fury, oaths stumbling upon his lips, he turned and rushed into the gathering darkness.
Another, who was a cripple, swaying to and fro on his crutches with excitement, broke into a storm of oaths because his companion did not do the work for which he was himself too helpless.
Thus each convict was condemned on the oaths of thirty-six men.
Without the intervention of any other person, to set his whole mind and thoughts concerning these oaths in the image;" and when he had succeeded in this, he was to burn the image, so that not a particle of it should remain.
Henry immediately summoned the same parliament to meet again in six days, appointed new officers of the crown, and as soon as he had received their oaths retired in state to the royal apartments.
The Venetians, having denounced Genoa as false to all its oaths and obligations, formally declared war in April, after several acts of hostility had occurred in the Levant.
The Frenchmen were all this time wonderfully silent, except when a shot whistled past their ears or struck the vessel, and then they gave way to volleys of oaths and execrations, the meaning of which, however, I did not understand.
The oaths of thy whole generation were ineffectual to prove but that one of her hairs had changed its colour to silver!
He is only just appointed; he took the oathsnot a month ago,--more's the pity!
The horrid oaths and blasphemy, the obscene songs, the shouts of maniac laughter, may be better imagined than described.
Rage, and fury, and disappointed revenge were in the tones of their voices, as they gave vent to their feelings in oaths and execrations while they were being handed below.
On the oaths of the negro witnesses, they were proved to have committed the most atrocious acts.
But," exclaimed the Frenchmen, uttering all the oaths in their ample vocabulary, "you are our prisoners.
Had they kept us on bread and water, and spared our lives, we should have had reason to be grateful; as the usual mode of proceeding of such gentry, we understood, always was to shoot all who would not take the oaths and join them.
Tell him that all his people have taken theoaths and joined the confederacy," he answered, looking at me hard.
Let it not astonish you that after such desertion, after such a breaking of oaths and faith as the king and I have experienced, I say still that no one has dared such a terrible crime, not even those who to-day serve the Swedes.
And he muttered oaths when he received negative answers on all sides.
Malbihn, urging his men onward with a stream of hideous oaths and blows from his fists, realized that the girl was again slipping from his clutches.
At sight of what lay beneath both men stepped back--involuntary oaths upon their lips--for there before them lay the dead body of Mbeeda, the faithless head man.
Then were the suffering Clergy freed from their sequestration, restored to their revenues, and to a liberty to adore, praise, and pray to God in such order as their consciences and oaths had formerly obliged them.
At the Revolution he refused taking the Oaths to the new government, for which he was suspended and deprived.
An English translation of the "Prelections on the Nature and Obligation of Promissory Oaths and of Conscience," was published in 3 vols.
Then with brutal oaths he dragged Marriott from the door, and snatched the key from her struggling hand.
But when it came to the trial, Sir Philip had nothing left but oaths in his own favour.
But Sir Philip Baddely's oathsare retained, as marks in a portrait of the times held up to the public, touched by ridicule, the best reprobation.
Usually during civil wars test oaths are tendered to suspected persons to discover their loyalty.
He poured forth on "plaintiffs and defendants, barristers and attorneys, witnesses and jurymen, torrents of frantic abuse, intermixed with oaths and curses.
Certain it is that the general vindicated his character by the most vehement oaths and protestations, and put every man out of the ranks of honor who dared to doubt his integrity.
Their conversation was interspersed with oaths like minute-guns, and every bombastic rhodomontade was rounded off by a thundering execration, like a patriotic toast honored with a discharge of artillery.
The many noble, excellent, and Christian men, who may have been heedlessly involved in this Rebellion, in spite of past oaths to the nation, it is not our task to judge.
How good men can, satisfy their consciences for the deliberate violation of the oathswhich so many of them have deliberately taken to support the Constitution of the United States, I know not.
It was lucky I was in New York when Louis wired us she had flown," he continued--I omit the oaths which punctuated his phrases.
It was to the effect that the postmasters-general of England could not act as postmasters-general of Scotland until they had been to Edinburgh and taken the oaths prescribed by the Scotch law.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oaths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
