redeem

• Were they still lying around the camp, filled with confidence that the hunter could redeem his boastful words, and return with the greatest of ease? —  Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
• We'll redeem our word, depend on that Bills soon appeared, posted all over Plymouth:--"The `Pallas,' fitting for sea, in want of a few prime hands. —  Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War
• Some members of the Cabinet had scores of political mortgages out, which they were called upon to redeem, and which gave the President a great deal of trouble. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
• When a state or nation issues more such promises than there is a likelihood of its being able to redeem, the paper representing the promises depreciates in value. —  Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• But I will pass by this little facetiousness I was saying that I held nearly all positions, from alderman, through both branches of Congress, to that which I now occupy; and who is there that will say Andrew Johnson ever made a pledge that he did not redeem or made a promise that he did not fulfill Some one had spoken in Congress about the Presidential obstacle to be gotten out of the way. —  Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

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