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depone

[dih-pohn] / dɪˈpoʊn /


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"But you depone that he charged you to tell only the truth?"

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

Mr Melmotte had been asked to depone the title-deeds, and had promised to do so as soon as the day of the wedding should have been fixed with the consent of all the parties. 

From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

"He's up on the shoulder of Lost Chief, I depone," said Johnny.

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

I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow

I guess if the truth be deponed he's fonder of me than he is of anybody—excepting maybe Judith.

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow

And she hath deponed that on other nights, too, this has happened, that the Queen's Highness, when she hath come late to bed, hath equally done the same thing.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford

One witness deponed that she saw the accused in a certain place at 5.40 P.M.

From Law and Laughter by George A. (George Alexander) Morton

"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?" asked old Johnny.

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

"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




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