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"Vow" in a Sentence (18 examples)
With every broken vow, you bring our ideal closer to destruction.
If I wanted to stop speaking to all the people I despise, I would have to take a vow of silence.
For you, against myself I'll vow debate, for I must ne'er love him whom you do hate.
By the God of the Hungarians we vow, we vow, that we will be slaves no longer!
I have made a vow never to get married.
"Whoe'er thou art, henceforward blot from mind / the Greeks, and leave thy miseries behind. / Ours shalt thou be; but mark, and tell me now, / what means this monster, for what use designed? / Some warlike engine? or religious vow? / Who planned the steed, and why? Come, quick, the truth avow."
Lady Stair sent him for answer, that her daughter, sensible of her undutiful behaviour in entering into a contract unsanctioned by her parents, had retracted her unlawful vow, and now refused to fulfil her engagement with him.
She particularly insisted on the Levitical law, which declares that a woman shall be free of a vow which her parents dissent from.
“It was a deadly sin,” said Lucy, turning pale, “to make a vow so fatal.”
I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.
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The old hermit, up in the mountains, took a vow of silence.
And Moses spake vnto the heads of the tribes, concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded. If a man vowe a vow vnto the Lord, or sweare an othe to bind his soule with a bond: he shall not breake his word, hee shall doe according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
There are also waxen vows, that represent other parts of the body mixed with them; but of these there are few in comparison of the number of the Priapi.
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it.
We do not vow that we will never sin, nor neglect a duty (nor ought we to do so).
The wronged woman vowed revenge.
The rebels vowed to continue their fight.
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