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  • Bible-oath of all the rest of the household that they "know it's so."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

  • -- Upon my honor, -- I would hold my right hand up and take my Bible-oath, if it was not busy with the pen at this moment, -- I do not believe the

    The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • -- Upon my honor, -- I would hold my right hand up and take my Bible-oath, if it was not busy with the pen at this moment, -- I do not believe the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Bible-oath of all the rest of the household that they "know it's so."

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Bible-oath of all the rest of the household that they "know it's so."

    Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • I taxed her with it, and she immediately wanted to take her Bible-oath, and smelt of gin, two things which, taken together, look guilty. "

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I taxed her with it, and she immediately wanted to take her Bible-oath, and smelt of gin, two things which, taken together, look guilty. "

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I will not do for the world) take my Bible-oath that I saw any; yet to be sure he would have soon pulled them out and shot me dead if I had ventured to have said anything to offend him. "

    Amelia — Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730

  • I will not do for the world) take my Bible-oath that I saw any; yet to be sure he would have soon pulled them out and shot me dead if I had ventured to have said anything to offend him. "

    Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730

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