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They swore never to take up arms again, and never did, although the Two thousand stripling warriors were recruited from among their sons.
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They swore that they would " in the fear and reverence of our Almighty God, mutually and severally promise amongst ourselves and each to profess and practice one truth according to that most perfect rule, the foundation whereof is ever lasting love.
They prayed to St. Joseph for deliverance, and when they were saved, they swore to honor the saint each year on his feast day.
They swore to prevent Glory from using The Key, and they attempted to kill Dawn ( The Key ) before Glory could find her.
They swore upon the mountain that they would take wives among the daughters of men and take mutual imprecation for their sin ( Enoch 6 ).
They swore allegiance to Isildur, but betrayed him and were cursed: they became known as the Dead Men of Dunharrow, of the paths Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and the Rangers later took.
They claim that over 180 popes, down to and including Pope Paul VI, swore this oath during their papal coronations.
They claim that by this oath the popes swore never to innovate or change anything that has been handed down to them.
They had also threatened and swore at staff that refused to sell them any more alcoholic drinks at the bar.
They are met there by the three remaining " Four Generals " ( Shitennō ) ( one was killed by Yasha-ō earlier ), warriors who swore to protect Taishakuten.
They also gained mainstream exposure by opening a European leg of U2's Zoo TV Tour in 1992, although they were nearly booed off the stage and almost started a riot when front man Coughlan swore at a Milan audience and insulted the Pope.
They were later buried in secret in the farm of two brothers who swore to keep the burial place in secrecy until Cuba would be free and independent and the correspondent military honors could be given to the hero.
They refer to Bill Grundy, the television host who started a great controversy two years earlier when Steve Jones swore on his live show ( egged on by Grundy ), as well as Martin Bormann and " Nazis on the run ".
They adopted a system of collective responsibility, and swore to a code of " complete submission to the laws of criminal life, including obligations to support the criminal ideal, rejection of legitimate employment ( must support oneself through criminal enterprises ) and refusal to participate in all political activities.
They swore reciprocal fidelity, although Aratus, understandably, was scared, after years of war, and especially since his own career had begun hating the previous Macedonian Kings.
They point out that European physicians of previous centuries traditionally swore some variation of the Hippocratic Oath, which in its ancient form excluded euthanasia: " To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death .." However, since the 1970s, this oath has largely fallen out of use.
They and never
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.
They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.
They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.
They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.
Almost the first step in the corruption of Pip's values is the unworthy shame he feels when Estella cruelly remarks the coarseness of his hands: `` They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages ''.
They were good-living religious people, and I can truthfully say I never heard them spread any gossip about anybody.
They justified this relatively low ranking ( though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600 ) with the summary statement: " Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company's new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a sexier way of playing Atari 2600 titles.
They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to A Hard Day's Night, but the plans were never fulfilled.
They operated under a series of laws that were added from time to time, but Roman law was never reorganised into a single code until the Codex Theodosianus ( AD 438 ); later, in the Eastern Empire the Codex repetitæ prælectionis ( 534 ) was highly influential throughout Europe.
They were virtually never used with personal computers and have now been replaced by high-speed laser printers.
They never seem to succeed, despite being supreme fighters, brilliant detectives, extraordinary hackers and duplicitous conwomen.
They saw to it that he received an excellent education at the Collège des Quatre-Nations, but he was never a good student: he had a facial tumor that impeded his speech, and he was always preoccupied with drawing.
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