To give up this hat and swear out a warrant for its owner.
One man fell or dropped from his horse, I'll swear to that," the sheriff made reply, looking along the gloom of the road with expectant eyes.
To swearby all the saints in the calendar would not make an oath.
If, while firmly believing it to be true, what we swear to happens to be false, we are not guilty of perjury, for the simple reason that our moral certitude places us in good faith, and good faith guarantees us against offending.
If we affirm what we know to be false we lie, if we swear to what we know to be false, we perjure ourselves.
If one really intends to swear by God to a certain statement, and employs certain words to express his intention, he is considered religiously to have taken an oath.
If you swear without deliberation, then, with you lies the burden of proving it; since the law will allow it only on evidence and will hold you bound until such evidence is shown.
But how the royal guesser could be sure enough to swear it, and that officially, is what staggers plain people.
Again, if a man does not believe in God, he cannotswear by Him; and in countries where God is repudiated, all attempts at administering oaths are vain and empty.
Indeed, I would not swear that the belle baigneuse was not looking for someone else, for there was in her eyes a certain expression that might have aroused the suspicions of a jealous husband.
If Monsieur de Carvajal has no restaurant to which he is attached, I could take him to a cabaret where they serve the most delicious calves' heads, and stewed rabbits en crapaudine--you would swear they were hares.
This, monsieur, I will do--I swear it before the portraits of my ancestors!
I swear to you, by Roland and my godfather Chaudoreille, that I will treat you to a jar of wine at the next fête carillonnée.
No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most feigning, and lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign.
All the boys swore by him, although at times perhaps--for his temper was as red as his hair--they were tempted to swear at him.
They swear I shall die, And their hue and cry The very thunder drowns.
By all the higher powers, and lower, I swear to rob this chicken-grower!
I couldn't swear that it was," Andy slowly replied.
But you will be willing to swear to what you have just told me, will you not?
I can't swearthough that it's the same envelope," Andy repeated.
I'll swear on a dozen Bibles any time and anywhere.
Andy will swear that he saw him pick up an envelope which Mr. Randall dropped on the floor, but he cannot swear that it is the same one that was found by the side of the murdered man.
Will you be willing to swear to what you have just told me?
Bramshaw will also swear that he never met Betty that night on the road.
He said that nothing could save me from him, and oh, how he did curse and swear what he would do.
The Don began to swear and stamp with rage, calling them all by certain uncomplimentary epithets, in which the Spanish language is so rich.
They may not intend to murder the people; or if they do, they will keep us shut up in the cabin while the operation is going forward, or they will make us swear before they set us at liberty not to give information.
They'll make the ship mount eighteen or twenty guns, and have a hundred and fifty men on board, and they'll swearthey fought us for three hours.
And yet, what did the mother swear to on her sacred oath?
When I first saw you standing there with your back to me and even when you turned round facing me after I spoke to you, I was ready to swear that you were Mrs. Beeman Watrous.
It is even more improper for you to swear at a soldier than it is for a superior to swear at you--in the latter case the insult can be properly resented; in the former, it must be borne in humiliating silence.
It appeared that not one of the men would play bridge, because Penelope had made them swear off.
I could swear I see the marquis and Gordon and that ass Goby and De Vere!
I swear to you that if you play this game with me I will drag you two down if I drag myself with you.
I swear to you that you don't know what you are dealing with.
His son Lucian did swear as he says; and in doing so, he swore what I will prove by his own affidavit to be a falsehood.
The first thing he will do will be to swear that he will support the Constitution of the United States.
Of course the men elected should be gentlemen of character, willing toswear support to the Constitution as of old, and known to be above reasonable suspicion of duplicity.
All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution--to this provision as much as to any other.
And further, I know that Talbott willswear that he got it out of the General's possession, and returned it into his possession again.
