depone
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One of the hands speaking in vulgar English accent was heard to depone, 'By George if I could only get that prize I'd be a happy man, and would go back to old h-England.'
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
"In great force, you say, serjeant?" added Stubbs; "in overwhelming force—madness to attack them—you can depone on oath before a court-martial?"
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
It was not in his quality as confessor that Fra Gervasio heard the dying man depone.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini
I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
Hill, in his deposition, doth further depone, that he hasten'd him away all he could, and gave him a letter to Ardkinlas to receive him as a lost sheep; ...
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by James Pringle Thomson
John Moncrieff deponed that Gowrie said nothing of Henderson’s message, but sat at dinner, feigning to have no knowledge of the King’s approach, till the Master arrived, a few minutes before the King.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
"Ay, wha kens that but herself?" said Saddletree; "she deponed farther, and declined to answer that interrogatory."
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
"I deponed I'd come, didn't I?" repeated the old fellow, and he was still deponing when Douglas started homeward.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
It had been deponed to me offeecially that no’ a tradesman—no’ the Deacon here himsel’—could have made a cleaner job wi’ Andra Simpson’s shutters.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
"I deponed I'd come, didn't I?" asked old Johnny.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
"I heard Jimmy Day deponing at the post-office to-day that Charleton was still off on a trip."
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
"I deponed I'd come, didn't I?" repeated the old fellow, and he was still deponing when Douglas started homeward.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
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