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Then this instant, as you ascend, Barack, you may punch the clock, and raise your hand in faith to oath,
"To President Obama" 2009
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The creditors were held in check until the middle of the fifth year by the words, “payment in full,” which the wily old miser threw out from time to time as he laughed in his beard, saying with a smile and an oath,
Eug�nie Grandet 2007
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I have seen Bragg go up to her and squeeze her arm with a savage grind of his teeth, and say, with an oath,
Our Street 2006
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The delegates are of course perfectly aware of what this oath,
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He then, knowing the time when he took to him his wife, and reckoning the months upon his fingers, said, denying with an oath,
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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In a symbolic gesture, after Mbeki had signed the oath,
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But what's happened the last two days is, under oath,
Dee Dee Myers Press Briefing ITY National Archives 1994
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Referring to witnesses who the state admitted had lied under oath,
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But the matter was difficult for her father Tyndarus, whether to give, or not to give [her in marriage,] and how he might best deal with the circumstances, when this occurred to him; that the suitors should join oaths and plight right hands with one another, and over burnt-offerings should enter into treaty, and bind themselves by this oath,
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision
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