- past tense form of swear.
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And they waxed wroth against the High Priestess and said, Didst thou not sware, even unto seven times, that thou wouldst not call a snap election?
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2017
Club Houses—Whare the hen-pecked go tew sware, and smooth out their feathers.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
To wrong the bonny lassie I sware ’t would be a sin; So I knelt down by the watter To dip my helmet in.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
Then some tooke vp their hawkes in hast, 145 And some tooke vp their hounds; And some sware they wold not marry her, For citty nor for towne.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Is love, that thou sware to me aye and so often, To live too feeble or—how?—doth it soften And weaken away and—to die?—why die?—
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
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