He swore to persecute heresy with his whole strength, including heretics and believers, their protectors and receivers, and not sparing his nearest kindred, friends, and vassals.
This unexpected answer stirred the legate to such wrath that he swore to destroy the place with fire and sword--to spare neither age nor sex, and not to leave one stone upon another.
In the lay courts, if a witnessswore to the innocence of the accused and subsequently changed his testimony, the first statement was held good and the second was rejected, but in cases of heresy the incriminating evidence was always received.
These were to be men of his own rank in life, who knew him personally and who swore to their belief in his orthodoxy and in the truth of his exculpatory oath.
Stripped to the waist, Raymond was brought before them as a penitent, and swore on the relics of St. Gilles to obey the Church in all matters whereof he was accused.
In that Towers read a serious menace to his own prestige; until he ground his teeth and swore sulphurously.
He swore he aimed ter come back ter me right soon," she repeated to herself.
He, too, knew of the black army, and though he swore like a baffled pirate into his beard he capitulated.
The officer who arrested him swore that he had given frequent trouble, which was untrue according to reliable testimony and his own statement.
Police arrested one or two men at the station, and, according to one of the men, made the crowd so angry that they swore they would not stop until all had gone.
The promise upon which I swore was that I would not consent to be released by the partidas on my journey through Spain.
As for resistance, the King always swore he hadn't an idea of it till Mrs. Geen put it into his head.
And if you swore to your innocence till the rest of your teeth dropped out of your mouth, my Lady Maria Esmond, I would not believe you!
He swore that she was an infernal female Cerberus, and called down all the wrath of this world and the next upon his swindling rascal of a brother, who had cajoled him with fair words, and filched his prize from him.
Again and again Harry swore there never was such a brother on earth.
Museau swore that letter should go, and no other; that if I hesitated, he would fling me out of the fort, or hand me over to the tender mercies of his ruffian Indian allies.
On which Harry broke out not merely into blessings but actual imprecations, indicating his intense love and satisfaction; and he swore that there never was such a brother in the world as his brother George.
Sampson shrugged his broad shoulders and swore a great roaring oath.
No," swore Will, with several of his oaths; "it was no invention of his.
I raised my lance, with the rest, for my sovereign, King Richard; was taken and pardoned; but swore no allegiance to one whom I could not but hold as an usurper.
To the one I swore allegiance, and owed much; to the other I had no duty, and owed nothing.
Then swore the Moorland princes for war to make them ready; Some of these still lingered, others to follow with the king were speedy.
Then swore the Moor that never he his hate would slacken, And that the grudge he bore him, whate'er befell, should never be forsaken.
Thirteen years ago, We swore the land of the Normans should with war be wasted; 'Twas then the friends of Hartmut stole the maid Gu-drun, and homeward hasted.
When the tale to him had come About this lovely maiden, his longing ne'er would leave him; But he was scorned by Hagen, who swore of life and name he would bereave him.
Loudly swore King Hettel the castle ne'er to leave; That he and all his followers still to the end would strive, Till those to him had yielded who now the Moor befriended.
The youths they with them carried, Bound by oaths of fealty, sworeagain to keep them, where'er they tarried.
My uncle swore a great oath that he would never marry anybody else, and the young lady drew in her head, and pulled up the window.
Cos it must be proved, and probated, and swore to, and all manner o' formalities.
The Pope flew into a bestial passion, and swore he would wait to see if I was so mad as not to finish it.
Next morning I went to his Majesty at the same hour; and no sooner had he caught sight of me, than he swore it was his intention to come to me upon the spot.
I think the poor lad swore this oath to God with all his heart, for he did break his neck, as I shall presently relate.
All in a rage, I answered that he could not please me better than by taking himself off; and he swore with passion that he would never show his face to me again.
Messer Pier Antonio replied that he was very ill, and that he would probably be even worse; for when he heard that I was coming back to Rome, he swore he would die to serve me an ill turn.
Maddened by the pain, he swore louder than all the rest in his Perugian jargon, crying out: By the body of God, I will take care that Benvegnato teaches Benvenuto how to live.
It was the very man who had abused him so rudely, and who swore that I should certainly be sent into the country with the lances.
She was furiously enraged because of the pleasant trick by which I brought Diego to our banquet, and she swore to be revenged on me.
When I had well pounded her she swore that she would never visit me again.
Ser Benedetto did the best he could to excuse himself, swore that he had paid the goldsmith, and said he had no power to curb the rage of madmen.
At last, despairing of success, he swore to come with Spaniards enough to cut me in pieces.
He reported this to the Cardinal, who swore at him, and told him to make me take the money by force, and not to show himself again till he had done so.
With all the hyperbole of Oriental imagination he swore positively to the finding of the chariot-wheels, and added the jewelry of Pharaoh's household.
More than one poor fellow lying on the field grievously wounded swore he would be taken to no place but to the American hospital.
Each swore by Allah that a fiendish trick had been played at dead of night,--not in the wedding of them in their sleep, but in the snatching of them asunder before waking.
The slave cried out loudly, and whimpered out: "If thou dost escape, Paaker will kill me; he swore he would.
He knew me for a noble, and treated me as one, inviting me to feed at his own table, and I swore in my heart, when he let me go, that I would make him some return for his generous conduct.
The private soldiers swore they would buy horses with golden harness.
I signed the Vereeniging Treaty and swore to be faithful to the British flag, but we have been so downtrodden by the miserable and pestilential English that we can endure it no longer.
When the king refused to recognise this appointment, and on an interdict being threatened swore that he would drive all priests who should obey it out of the country, the pope issued it in A.
Francis of Guise sworeto cut it up with his sword, and on 1st March, A.
Sigismund swore to observe the compact, and was recognised as king.
The kingswore to take fearful vengeance on the unknown perpetrators of this crime.
This letter elicited a joyful answer from Theodore, who swore by all that was sacred to be quiet, and take patience, and wait her instructions.
Yuan-hung refused in firm language and swore that he would not recognize such a step.
Heaven and earth as well as all living creatures in China and other lands know what the President swore to when he took the oath of office as President.
Five centuries later William the Norman reviewed his army here, and after the first Domesday survey summoned all the landholders of England to the number of sixty thousand, who here swore fealty to him.
Then it was that the stalwart Norman William swore "by the splendor of God" to avenge himself on Northumbria, and, keeping his pledge, he devastated the entire country north of the Humber.
And Pilate called the ensigns who before had borne the standards, and swore to them, that if they had not borne the standards in that manner when Jesus before entered in, he would cut off their heads.
Then he laughed, swore a disgusting oath at me, loosened the bridle of his horse, which was tied to a tree quite close at hand, and started to ride away.
James Strong swore one of his vile oaths and spluttered there was no proof.
He swore an oath by Ra Harakhti, saying, "Thy coming to slay me wrongfully, having thy spear, was the instigation of a wicked and filthy one.
But the Master would not agree to it; thereupon they sent other persons ashore, and swore he should be the last man they would give quarter to, and so put directly for Laccadeva Island, and arrived there in three days.
As for Colquhoun, when he thought seriously over the situation, he laughed when it was a fine day, andswore if it was raining.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
