swore

“I swore I wasn’t going to say that!”

“I swore I wasn’t going to say that.”

“When he took office, he swore to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’

“She had lots of friends, most of them bad. She was driven by a thousand desires, a few of them decent. She sinned. She stole. But she swore she never murdered.”

On one occasion, she said, she had been near a group of boys in the park who were throwing apples at him, following which she said Mr Kohli swore at her and her friend.