depone
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"He's up on the shoulder of Lost Chief, I depone," said Johnny.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
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
She did indeed depone to a line being left for me at her house, which said line miscarried.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 by Robert Chambers
This Nichol Somerville, Mr. Mitchel's brother-in-law, offered, in court, to depone, That the arch-bishop promised to him to secure his life, if he would prevail with him to confess.
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
"She told me not to go any crazier than I already was, and I deponed to her how Doug felt about me, and she went home."
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
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
I was not aware of it until I heard it deponed to yesterday.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
Hislop deponed, in the first place, that Lorimer, not Wotherspoon, was the actual forger of the bill, and that he had seen him write it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
Craigengelt, Gowrie’s steward, who was tortured, tried, convicted, and hanged, deponed that, going up the staircase, just after the King’s arrival, he met the Master, booted, and asked ‘where he had been.’
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
"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
