The reason was that Ragaud had received such a severe shock by the narrow escape of his daughter, he had promised and sworn never again to expose the child to such a fearful risk, which had so nearly proved fatal.
I am a sworn soldier of my God--of him who died for me.
Gautier, as thesworn enemy of everything regular and commonplace, undertook their defence.
I durst have sworn I had heard my monster's voice.
I would obey you to my power, sir; but if I have not him, I have swornnever to marry.
If you would believe me, in the night I got to trembling so that I could have sworn there was an earthquake going through the county.
The foreman very sensibly remarked, "if you have called a witness who has sworn that there was not the smallest particle of damage done, how can we, upon our oath, say there was some damage?
As they were sworn to assess the damages agreeable to the evidence, and as the only witness called had sworn that there was not the thousandth part of a farthing damage done, how could a conscientious jury give any damage?
Another version of the episode, based on sworn evidence, has it that Ebenezer Babson, returning late on a summer night, saw two men run from his door and vanish in a field.
Meanwhile, the sworn bookseller of the university, Master Andry Musnier, was inclining his ear to the furrier of the king's robes, Master Gilles Lecornu.
Because he is one of the four sworn booksellers of the university!
And I order that the present judgment shall be cried, with the assistance of four sworn trumpeters, in the seven castellanies of the viscomty of Paris.
Soon Michel Noiret, sworn trumpeter to the king, our lord, imposed silence on the louts, and proclaimed the sentence, in accordance with the order and command of monsieur the provost.
I have told you; because, contrary to sworn faith and pledged word, they refused to give up the land.
Master, I do not advise you to buy me, for I have sworn to be free or die; whatever you may do to prevent me, I warn you that I shall escape.
Some time after he had obtained his liberty, he met in the street the woman that had sworn with so much malignity against him.
But he had already left it, never to return; and the superior had sworn to conceal his new abode from every human being.
But I vow to thee, when I helped thee out of the stream, I thought I should have had to give thee battle the next moment, as a sworn friend of Don Panfilo, the Biscayan.
Rememberest thou not the field of Zugar, and the oath sworn on the cross of a blood-stained sword, by the river-side?
God hath called me to this mountain, that I should be ready to do battle with the heathen, in defence of the holy cross, which is my sworn vow; and in the fulfilment of the same, I pray God that I may die.
Now shalt thou hear how I cursed those whom I had sworn to love; how I sharpened my sword, and with vengeance and fury, went against the village of my betrayers.
Alpujarras, did I slay him whom I had sworn to love, and deface, with a murderous sword, the loveliest of thine images!
What opinion could he entertain of a woman who sinned deliberately by virtue of an understanding with him whom she had sworn to respect and obey?
Had he entered the room with a swagger, banged the door behind him, sworn at the waiter, or nodded to one single individual present, he would have produced no embarrassing sensation whatever.
My dear Cecilia," observed the baronet, "is it not much better that your friend should be made acquainted with the grounds on which you have admitted him as your sworn knight and only love?
They advise private arming with bloody weapons--they advise violent resistance and murder--the murder of officers of civil Law engaged in the discharge of the duty which they have sworn to perform!
Law, which he has just sworn to his country and to his God, shall govern his verdict!
If my neighbor may arm himself, and kill a legal officer who attempts the discharge of his sworn duty; then I may arm myself also, when I deem the Law unjust to me, and kill another legal officer, who attempts to execute the Law!
SWORN before me, [Here the document must be signed by the Vicar-General, or a Surrogate appointed by him.
In case either party is a minor, the age must be stated, and the consent of the parents or guardians authorised to give such consent must be sworn to by the gentleman or lady applying for the licence.
After this he had sprung up and held aloft his hand with the forefinger extended and sworn to the spirit that nothing here after would seduce him from the pursuit of the elixir which was to render Truth triumphant in the world.
But, though he was so keen and so consistent a champion of civil and religious freedom, he was a sworn foe to anarchy and licence.
And now he returns to one of the prominent topics of his first Letter, and reminds the Archbishop of Canterbury that he has sworn to protect the rights and possessions of the Metropolitical Church of Canterbury.
But enough has been quoted to show that Sydney Smith, so far as he was in any sense concerned with philosophy, was a sworn foe to mysticism and ideality, and a worshipper of Baconian common-sense even in the sphere of mind and soul.
You will tell your master that I, who govern this land for the King, have sent him lord's pleasure in such shape as rice and salt and cloth, and that he has sworn by death to keep the peace of the forest.
So, Sandi, ask me no more, for I havesworn an oath.
Next day there was a palaver with sacrifices of fowl and beast, and blood friendships were sworn fluently.
He who had swornby the prophet to end the life of Ofesi had left the matter until it was too late.
She reminded him that he had sworn to be faithful to her, and not to see anybody while she was away, so that he might think only of her.
He thought of that dark watching by the body of Melchior, of all that he had sworn to do, and, surveying his life since then, he knew that he had failed to keep his vows.
It is of no use for me to tell you that Henry Banta has sworn to a lie, partly to revenge himself on me for punishments I have given him, and partly, perhaps, for money.
Peter Jones has sworn to a deliberate falsehood, and he knows it.
How Jeremy prayed for an Exmoor fog (such as he had often sworn at), that he might turn aside and lurk, while his pursuers went past him!
Now this was very vile of me, and against all good resolutions, even such as I would have sworn to an hour ago or less.
The persons chosen are sworn into office on Michaelmas Day.
The oath that I sware was sworn when mine heart was not whole towards our people; and now will I break it that I may keep what of good intent there was in it, and cast away the rest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sworn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
