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Examples
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“Faithless Knight of Boghall! step forth and defend yourself against the imputation of having deserted your lady-love, and of being a man-sworn disgrace to the rolls of chivalry!”
Castle Dangerous 2008
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“He wanted,” answered Jeanie, “that I suld be man-sworn.”
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“But,” replied Jeanie, whose judgment was too accurate not to see the sophistry of this argument, “I shall be man-sworn in the very thing in which my testimony is wanted, for it is the concealment for which poor Effie is blamed, and you would make me tell a falsehood anent it.”
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I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering,59 to forgive and receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfred of Ivanhoe.
Ivanhoe 2004
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And now to turn upon her, to try to tear her from her own lad, to make her man-sworn!
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and _nidering_, *
Ivanhoe 1892
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Had he not been as faithless to her, was he not as much man-sworn, as though a thousand oaths had passed between them?
The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848
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` ` But, '' replied Jeanie, whose judgment was too accurate not to see the sophistry of this argument, ` ` I shall be man-sworn in the very thing in which my testimony is wanted, for it is the concealment for which poor Effie is blamed, and you would make me tell a falsehood anent it. ''
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` ` He wanted, '' answered Jeanie, ` ` that I suld be man-sworn. ''
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I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering, Infamous. to forgive and receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfred of Ivanhoe.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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