gospel oath
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But be it the strongest of the strong, I'll take my Gospel oath it's weak to what my pore mother made, and that anybody in Much Moddle parish would tell you, for man, woman or child who took one of Mrs. Marjoram's Mixtures and got over it, remember it, he would, until his dying day.
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That’s what the gentleman was wearing as I drove this morning—take my Gospel oath on it.”
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I have heard tell that he sware a gospel oath in bygone times, and has bode by it ever since.
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