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At the next street crossing two men, one fat and the other lean, came running, revolvers in hands, to intercept them. They were too late. Before they reached the corner the outlaws had galloped past in a cloud of white dust, still flinging bullets at the invisible they were escaping. The big lean cow-puncher stopped with an oath as the riders disappeared.

Once a neighbour stepped in unawares, and found the strong man stretched with his face on the settle, and sobbing hard; but he sat up when he found he was not alone, spoke an oath or two, and was ready for everyday chat. In the autumn Casely happened to be out on the green, watching the women spreading the nets to dry.

The main characteristic of the jury is that it does not want to be in court. The name comes from the French word Juré, sworn, or the man who has taken an oath.

"Unwilling, however, to have any intercourse with these people, we declined his invitation, upon which he returned to the hill, and struck the earth three times with his gun, a great oath among the Indians, who consider swearing by the earth as one of the most solemn forms of imprecation.

No, I renounce a torture which you suppose will bring me happiness, but which consumes and eats away my very life; to see her in the presence of strangers, and not to tell her that I love her, when my whole being reveals my affection and betrays me to every one; no! I have sworn never to do it again, and I will keep my oath." "Yet, sire, pray listen to me for a moment."

On the future day the judge admitted as much. "We have gained a bit of a victory in the Admiralty Court," said the same writer in a letter dated the 9th of June, "the judge having been compelled to pronounce in favour of his lordship's right to be believed on his oath."

The tied-up horse whinnied, and the waves gave a soft splash and that was all, if I except Sweetwater's muttered oath. Coming back, he looked again at the window, then, with a gesture toward Mr. Grey, turned the corner of the building and began to edge himself along its side in an endeavor to reach the rear and see what it offered. But he came to a sudden standstill.

His father uttered a quick oath. "Bigamy! Who talks of bigamy?" "You do, Sir! I have married a beautiful and innocent woman, she is my lawful wife in the sight of God and man; yet you coolly propose to give me a second wife under the 'morganatic' law, which, as I view it, is merely a Royal excuse for bigamy!

When I looked across the road, blessed it the party wasn't in already, at least as much as he ever was in, which, so far as I can make out, never has been anything particular, though how he had got in, unless it was through a window in the middle of the night, is more than I should care to say, there was nobody in the house when I went to bed, that I could pretty nearly take my Bible oath, yet there was the blind up at the parlour, and, what's more, it was down, and it's been down pretty nearly ever since.

Finding that the new magistrates, who had been appointed by the Earl of Warwick, kept the people everywhere from joining him, he pretended, and even made oath, that he came, not to challenge the crown, but only the inheritance of the house of York, which of right belonged to him, and that he did not intend to disturb the peace of the kingdom.