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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

By: Stephen Crane

...vid with fury. His small body was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths. “Run, Jimmie, run! Dey’ll get yehs,” screamed a retreat ing Rum A... ...llowed him. They came to a stand a short dis tance away and yelled taunting oaths at the boy with the chronic sneer. The latter, momentarily, paid no... ...aging to and fro among the drivers on their high seats, and sometimes roared oaths and violently got himself arrested. After a time his sneer grew so ... ...n a chair, but a moment later sprang erect and delivered a maddened whirl of oaths. Her son turned to look at her as she reeled and swayed in the midd... ...ke grins. Through their white, gripped teeth struggled hoarse whisperings of oaths. Their eyes glittered with murderous fire. Each head was huddled be... ...angled in it. The rumble of con versation was replaced by a roar. Plenteous oaths heaved through the air. The room rang with the shrill voices of wom...

...madly about the heap and pelting at him. His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths. ?Run, Jimmie, run! Dey?ll get yehs,? screamed a retreating Rum Alley child. ?Naw,? responded Jimmie with a valiant roar, ?dese micks can?t make me run.?...

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Buke Mele Lahui (Book of National Songs)

By: Hawaiian Historical Society

...ght the loyalists; and the sites of the revolution- aries' gradual retreat into Kaimuki, Manoa, and Nu uanu. Other [ xv ] texts present nationalist oaths of allegiance to the deposed Queen Lili uokalani, invoking terms and phrases such as “kupaa” stand firm, “mahope makou o Liliulani” we support Lili uokalani, and the slo- gan “no ka poe i aloha i ka aina” of the people ...

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In the Eye of the Beholder

By: By Sharon E. Cathcart

... to you. Leave it be!” The urchins scattered, but not without calling a few oaths in their wake. I squatted down and called to the cat, wiggling my...

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Werelove Dusk Conspiracy

By: Lakisha Spletzer

...ch a downer,” Britta chided. “I’ll make whatever concessions, promises and oaths I have to, but you, my best friend, will be at my party. I’m not tak...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...who passed all their tests and examinations are sworn by the most serious oaths to not reveal anything of those three parts. Do not misunderstand my ...

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Fire and für : The Last Sorcerer Dragony

By: Roger C. Schlobin

...m the first of the new dragons! We make our own bonds. There will be oaths of fealty and submission to us. All of nature will yield before our...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

... houres debating and paltring, both parties will goe from their words and oaths for the getting or saving of a shilling: yet did I borrow with great... ...rdinary motions of his maister, the inflammation of his face, his unwonted oaths, his chafing, his unquietnesse, and his rash precipitation. http://...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...l people. Feudalism was based upon enslaving people by forcing them to swear oaths of life-long allegiance, obedience and servitude to a feudal lord... ...tried to placate their own consciences. They swore all kinds of promises and oaths which they all, reneged-on later. They all swore to carry on his... ...ay that was taken over by the rich. And used for their sick rituals. Ritual oaths of fealty were renewed every Christmas: so the poor were never al... ...u did for the undead, forget what evil you did for them Swear for them, swear oaths for them, deny your own humanity for them, suffer and deprive you...

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The Passionate Pilgrim

By: William Shakespeare

...ace her. Her lips to mine how often hath she join’d, Between each kiss her oaths of true love swearing! How many tales to please me hath she coin’d, D... ...fearing! Y et in the midst of all her pure protestings, Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings. She burn’d with love, as straw with...

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The Book of Habakkuk : Introduction, Translation, And Notes on the Hebrew Text

By: Various

...bakkuk 2:14 3:8 5 tion? 9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth wi...

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By: William Shakespeare

...overeignty so oft thou hast preferr d With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths. I cannot leave to love, and yet I do; But there I leave to love wher... ...pleased withal. JULIA: That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear: A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears And instances of infinite of love Warrant me w... ...effect! But truer stars did govern Proteus birth His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, Act II, scene vii 35 His love sincere, his thoughts imm... ... s lines: I know they are stuff d with protestations And full of new-found oaths; which he will break As easily as I do tear his paper. JULIA: Madam,... ...t love, For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths Descended into perjury, to love me. Thou hast no... ...hither. PROTEUS: How! Julia! JULIA: Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths, And entertain d em deeply in her heart. How oft hast thou with perj...

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The Volsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies

By: William Morris

...a Gunnar and Hogni shall be thy brethren, and all this shall be sworn with oaths each to each; and then surely shall the like of you never be found on... ... but when it was brought to an end, once more has Sigurd memory of all the oaths that he sware unto Brynhild, yet withal he let all things abide in re... ...gold and the realm withal.” Hogni answers, “Ill it behoves us to break our oaths with wrack and wrong, and withal great aid we have in him; no kings s... ...he deed; he is young, and of little knowledge, and is clean out of all the oaths moreover.” “Ah, set about in ill wise,” says Hogni, “and though indee... ...your lands Lie waste on all sides, As ye have broken Your bounden oaths! Ne’er shalt thou, Gunnar, The gold have joy of; The dear-bo... ... foes: lo now, ill shall it go with thee and all thy kin, O ye breakers of oaths; for on the day thou slayedst him, dimly didst thou remem- ber how th... ...ld, Yea, he who stood On the necks of the strong.” SIGRUN: All oaths once sworn Shall bite thee sore, The oaths that to Helgi Onc... ...had been slain by Helgi in battle, and Helgi had given peace to, and taken oaths of Dag. 133 The V olsunga Saga Water of Lightening, (3) And at... ... full sweetly. This for the tenth counsel: That thou give trust never Unto oaths of foeman’s kin, Be’st thou bane of his brother, Or hast thou felled ...

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Love's Labours Lost

By: William Shakespeare

...rs, and to keep those statutes That are recorded in this schedule here: Your oaths are pass’d; and now subscribe your names, That his own hand may str... ...branch herein: If you are arm’d to do as sworn to do, Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too. LONGAVILLE: I am resolved; ’tis but a three year... ...ILLE, and DUMAIN .] BIRON: I’ll lay my head to any good man’s hat, These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn. Sirrah, come on. COSTARD: I suf... ...f these women, Or women’s sake, by whom we men are men, Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves, Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths. It ... ... to be your house’s guest; So much I hate a breaking cause to be Of heavenly oaths, vow’d with integrity. FERDINAND: O, you have lived in desolation ... ... king. For your fair sakes have we neglected time, Play’d foul play with our oaths: your beauty, ladies, Hath much deform’d us, fashioning our humors... ...e of loose love Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes, Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities, Those heavenly eyes, that look into these faults, Su...

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All's Well That Ends Well

By: William Shakespeare

...ns for the young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises,enticements, oaths, okens, and all these engines of lust, are not the things they go und... ...econd Lord: How deep? PAROLLES: Thirty fathom. Second Lord: Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed. PAROLLES: I would I had any drum... ... How have I sworn! DIANA: Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow d true. Wh... ... swear by God s great attributes, I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths, When I did love you ill? This has no holding, To swear by him whom ... ...y him whom I protest to love, That I will work against him: therefore your oaths Are words and poor conditions, but unseal d, At least in my opinion. ... ...ow he would woo, As if she sat in s heart; she says all men Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me When his wife s dead; therefore I ll lie w... ...TRAM: Damnable both-sides rogue! First Soldier: [Reads] When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it; After he scores, he never pays the s... ...or rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking em he is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir, wit...

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A Few Figs from Thistles : Poems and Sonnets

By: Edna Saint Vincent Millay

... you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer lived, And oaths were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contriv...

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Captain Burle

By: Emile Zola

...such a fit of rage that he had to relieve himself by a volley of appalling oaths. Finally he resumed: “It isn’t the swindle that angers me; it is his ... ...opper.” Just then he slipped into a gutter and, half choked by a string of oaths, he gasped: “You understand—I am going to rout up Gagneux. You must s... ... who struck the books with his clenched fists, yelling through a shower of oaths: “This is more abominable still! At least there was some pluck about ...

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King Henry V

By: William Shakespeare

...hrust, I’ll kill him; by this sword, I will. PISTOL: Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course. BARDOLPH: Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be fr... ...d my movables: Let senses rule; the word is ‘Pitch and Pay:’ Trust none; For oaths are straws, men’s faiths are wafer cakes, And hold fast is the only... ... they con perfectly in the phrase of war, which they trick up with new tuned oaths: and what a beard of the general’s cut and a horrid suit of the cam... ...sp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protesta tion; only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou ... ...urety of our leagues. Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me; And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be! [Sennet. Exeunt.] Act V, scene ii 82 ...

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An Episode of the American Civil War

By: Stephen Crane

...arently all deaf and blind. They heeded not the largest and longest of the oaths that were thrown at them from all directions. Frequently over this tu... ...swearing in a loud voice. From his lips came a black procession of curious oaths. Of a sudden another broke out in a querulous way like a man who has ... ... blunt head of the column pushed. The raving team-sters swore many strange oaths. The commands to make way had the ring of a great impor- tance in the... ...uring of voices broke upon the air. In it there was much bass of grumbling oaths. Strange gods were addressed in condemnation of the early hours neces... ...tors had immediately bristled at him with a great show of resenting unjust oaths. Possibly there was going to be a fight. The friend arose and went ov... ...ibrated from the weight and force of his imprecations. And he could string oaths with the facility of a maiden who strings beads. The friend of the yo... ...dage, pro- duced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and porten- tous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over... ... curse, but it was now with the air of a man who was using his last box of oaths. For the fire of the regiment had begun to wane and drip. The 112 Th... ... and he conceived it to be his privilege, his duty, to use deep, resentful oaths. Another, who was a boy in years, took his plight with great calmness...

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King Henry Vi, Part Iii

By: William Shakespeare

... EDWARD: But for a kingdom any oath may be broken: I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year. RICHARD: No; God forbid your grace should be fo... ...th powerful policy strengthen themselves, And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths. MONTAGUE: Brother, I go; I’ll win them, fear it not: And thus mos... ...were sworn true subjects unto me: And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths? First Keeper : No; For we were subjects but while you were king. ... ... common men. Henry VI, Part III , Act III, scene i 42 But do not break your oaths; for of that sin My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty. Go whe...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

..., in seat of honour, signs circular, elected to Convention, and Dumouriez, oaths by, in Convention, on suf- ferings of People, and Girondins, arrested...

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