Swore

You swore -- you never contented yourself with merely saying a thing -- you _swore_ that, as far as lay in your power, you'd make my wretched life pleasant for me. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

About five years after Klein swore off opinion-based prime-time programming for the network and embarked on a crusade to find an audience more interested in straight news reporting, ratings-parched CNN this past summer started crawling back to dip its dehydrated tongue into the restorative waters of debate TV. ❋ Lisa De Moraes (2010)

Saying Carl Levin swore repeatedly, when he was actually quoting from an email, is like saying an actor playing Hamlet killed somebody with a sword. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He has since acknowledged that he followed too closely the advice of his consultants during that campaign, and - before he started to scoff at the idea of running again - swore that if he ever did so, he would speak his mind. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The captain swore that these cartridges were to be utilized for shooting snipe in the West Indies, and we refused to believe it. ❋ Unknown (1916)

But the robber captain swore he was the most constant of men; yet still the fairy sighed and sighed, until he almost wished his nose had been shortened too. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Delhi’s credibility is badly dented after it time and again swore that it never provided SL with arms, but SL’s victory parade featured the Indian radars, Bofors guns, two war ships given by India anchored in the Colombo harbor and more. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Obviously I swore, which is bang out of order and I apologise again for that, but I still stand by the rest of the things I said. ❋ Telegraph Staff (2011)

It was an intelligent jury, and in my address to them, I appealed to their honour, as men of character, whether they could conscientiously give a verdict of any damage, when the only witness called swore that there was not a _thousandth part_ of a farthing damage done? ❋ Henry Hunt (1804)

The next witness who was called swore that he was a surgeon, that he lived at Amesbury, the adjoining town; that he had attended ❋ Henry Hunt (1804)

Ted ignored them at first, denied he was that guy, but when those who called swore their interest was in the fundament of his creation and that they didn't associate the ❋ Unknown (2010)

His argument was that he "swore" I said the stove was ready to go and I had done all that. ❋ Lauren Thomas (2009)

Sensationalizing a story by claiming that a senator "swore" repeatedly when actually he was reading a quote is misleading. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I kind of swore off the whole scholarship thing after not being selected to receive one of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation awards for undergraduate transfer students earlier this year. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If Sibyl had not babbled out the word "swore" it might have been less plain. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Do you remember that evening we first met, Diana, and "swore" eternal friendship in your garden? ❋ Unknown (1909)

Do you remember that evening we first met, Diana, and 'swore' eternal friendship in your garden? ❋ Unknown (1908)

Buck Fuson he tuck a spite at me, last time the raiders was up atter that Fuson hideout; jes set up an 'swore' at I'd gin the word to 'em. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

A critical taste might have objected that the plush curtains which shaded the windows were too heavy for summer; that the begilded wallpaper "swore" a little at its own dado and frieze, as well as deadened the effect of the pictures which hung against it; and that the drapery of lace and velvet which veiled the fireplace made a fire inconvenient and almost impossible, however cold the weather might be. ❋ Susan Coolidge (1870)

Charles "swore," though with considerable reluctance, not to reveal the secret, when it should be imparted to him. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)