swear to
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Which, at face value, may not sound like the most romantic thing anyone has ever said, but trust me when I swear to you that it was.
From Literature
And yet -he’d made Torak swear to find the Mountain.
From Literature
“I swear to you, I have no reason to lie to you. Lord Jesus Christ,” she is heard sobbing into the phone on video.
From Los Angeles Times
But they did it, somehow, some way, swear to Stafford, they did it, winning 20-17 in overtime with an outcome that could be described in one word.
From Los Angeles Times
With the “Oath,” which depicts Publius Horatius demanding that his three sons swear to fight and die for Rome, David established his reputation as a forceful visualizer of tales from ancient history that conveyed messages of civic virtue and self-sacrifice, themes that were closely aligned with the new philosophy of the Enlightenment.
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