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Example sentences for "could swear"

  • Now we could let him get speech of the boy; and if any one heard of it, we would say it was only to see whether he could swear to the youth, and he would soon take any message to his people for him.

  • If I was on the rack I could swear to your voice although it is feigned, and though when you came to my crib you kept your face out of sight.

  • I went over the whole grounds this morning—and I could swear it was here that——" The conclusion of the sentence was muttered to himself, and therefore remained unheard by the valet.

  • I know it—I could swear to it: I can tell by the way that the key turns!

  • Could swear he had sold no strychnine himself that day.

  • He is innocent," I said; "I could swear he is innocent!

  • Could swear that he himself remembered nothing about it.

  • He had been ill, and was now convalescent.

  • My friend coughed on the edge of his plaid, and I could swear he was laughing at me.

  • I could swear) for a footstep that would never come again.

  • He had been reading or praying with his master before the physician had come in; he had been doing his duty (I could swear by his stern jaw), and making MacCailein Mor writhe to the flame of a conscience revived.

  • For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

  • And this was really all I could swear to in the matter of his outward appearance; though I told myself confidently enough that if I actually fell in with him again I should recognise him fast enough.

  • I could swear it was German, but O'Brien, who contradicted everything, stuck to it it was Russian.

  • When I thought of them afterwards I could swear to nothing and finally concluded the whole thing was probably fancy.

  • I know this hand well; I could swear to it.

  • Another would say, "I could swear I saw Layton as a witness in one of those pot-house trials where the course of law proceedings is made the matter of vulgar jest.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could climb; could command; could draw; could earn; could gain; could hold; could imagine; could not; could not help saying; could offer; could paint; could play; could sell; could speak; could stand; could stay; could succeed; could swear; could take; could they; could understand; could wish; mile west; queer smile; saving only; with one