hearers

Example Sentences

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The bond swearers loitered around the court ready to gaurantee any bail for him. things have improved though: nowadays you don't starve to death in the insolvency clink.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2018

Nothing can be so silly and unmeaning—not to say shocking, repulsive, and sinful—as the oaths so common in the mouths of vulgar swearers.

From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel

By statutes of Donald VI. and Kenneth II., the penalty of cutting out the tongue was inflicted upon swearers.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

Did you not see sparks of our fire in the tongues of the swearers and of the scolds, when seeking to get their husbands home? 

From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry

I've heard that old Jube Early is one of the hardest swearers in the Southern army," he said, "and I've heard, too, that he's just as hard a fighter.

From The Tree of Appomattox by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)