man-sworn

“Faithless Knight of Boghall! step forth and defend yourself against the imputation of having deserted your lady-love, and of being a man-sworn disgrace to the rolls of chivalry!”

Castle Dangerous 2008

“He wanted,” answered Jeanie, “that I suld be man-sworn.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

“But,” replied Jeanie, whose judgment was too accurate not to see the sophistry of this argument, “I shall be man-sworn in the very thing in which my testimony is wanted, for it is the concealment for which poor Effie is blamed, and you would make me tell a falsehood anent it.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering,59 to forgive and receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfred of Ivanhoe.

Ivanhoe 2004

And now to turn upon her, to try to tear her from her own lad, to make her man-sworn!

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and _nidering_, *

Ivanhoe 1892

Had he not been as faithless to her, was he not as much man-sworn, as though a thousand oaths had passed between them?

The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848

` ` But, '' replied Jeanie, whose judgment was too accurate not to see the sophistry of this argument, ` ` I shall be man-sworn in the very thing in which my testimony is wanted, for it is the concealment for which poor Effie is blamed, and you would make me tell a falsehood anent it. ''

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

` ` He wanted, '' answered Jeanie, ` ` that I suld be man-sworn. ''

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering, Infamous. to forgive and receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfred of Ivanhoe.

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819