"Did you hear me ask a plain question, you pattering spy?" he shrieked in a high, crazy voice. "Are you, or are you not, a police detective?"
"No!" answered Syme, like a man standing on the hangman's drop. "You swear it," said the old man, leaning across to him, his dead face becoming as it were loathsomely alive. "You swear it! You swear it! If you swear falsely, will you be damned? Will you be sure that the devil dances at your funeral? Will you see that the nightmare sits on your grave?英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Thursday》
"Barbara, I swear that I am innocent; I swear I was not present when the man was murdered; I swear that from my own positive knowledge, my eyesight, I know no more who did it than you. The guessing at it is enough for me; and my guess is as sure and true a one as that the moon is in the heavens."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
"Swear that to me! Swear to me that I shall not be constrained to labor, swear that you will govern for me, that I may devote my time to the enjoyment of life!"英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》
"I demand of thee that thou swear before me a great oath, and that thou keep it carefully. Swear unto me that thy heart shall be ever filled with hatred of Afrasiyab, and that thou wilt not let this flame be quenched by the waters of forgetfulness, and that thou regard him not as the father of thy mother, and that thou think only of Saiawush thy sire, whom he hath slain. And swear unto me further that there shall be no other mediator between you save only the sword and the mace."英文原著 · 《The Epic of Kings》
"Thou shalt swear me an oath," said Robin, "On my bright brand, Thou shalt never awayte me scathe, By water ne by land; And if thou find any of my men, By night or by day, Upon thine oath thou shalt swear, To help them that thou may."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"Why do you swear?" she said. "I never heard a man swear before, -- at least, not one with whom I was talking. That's one of your gulch habits. You must get over it."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Is it the swearing? Is it the constant swearing?美剧 · 《Friends》
I swear to God -- I swear to God, we are going through with this wedding so that I can kill you, and then I'm gonna divorce your corpse!美剧 · 《Modern Family》
The task of swearing on the Bible and we give them a chance to cheat, the task of swearing on the Bible and we give them a chance to cheat,演讲 · 《Our buggy moral code ~ Dan Ariely》