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  • Conrade arose boldly to answer, and in despite, as he expressed himself, of man and brute, king or dog, avouched his innocence of the crime charged.

    The Talisman 2008

  • Catharine, “and which you yourself have avouched often.”

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Under his habit, and secured in a small silver box, he had worn perpetually around his neck a lock of-hair, which the fathers avouched to be a relic.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • He, of course, avouched his innocence, and offered his body for battle.

    The Talisman 2008

  • Dismounting before it, each knight avouched the justice of his cause by a solemn oath on the Evangelists, and prayed that his success might be according to the truth or falsehood of what he then swore.

    The Talisman 2008

  • And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • In that pleasant humour they all posted to Rome; and intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several disports.

    The Rape of Lucrece 2004

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