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Some commenters have been swearing off the West fandom and others defending him as a “free thinker.”

From Slate • May 4, 2018

Had the voters obliged, Bird, the first woman to serve as her state's chief justice, would have been swearing in the nation's first elected black Governor, California's Thomas Bradley, on Jan. 3.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Miss Sanchia and I have been swearing eternal friendship," said Lady Maria.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

His especial delight, to the last, seems to have been swearing against the doctors, whom he treated like the individual in Anstey's 'Bath Guide,' shying their medicines out of window upon their own heads.

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Wharton, Grace

"I have been swearing to him that as soon as we had found out to-day what we were to do I would have wired him at once."

From The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story by Brown, Arthur William