Read full poem →Gnash my teeth when I look in your French or your English papers,
What is the good of that? Will swearing, I wonder, mend matters?
Cursing and scolding repel the assailants? No, it is idle;
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Common Phrases
. swearingallegiance swearingswearing falseswearing profane
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Poetry examples for “swearing”
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Read full poem →your father by swearing. — foes. — yowr here, but «A.y in the
Read full poem →recovered his composure, merely saying to our hero in a low tone: “I tell
you what, Pierre Bon-Bon, we must have no more swearing.”
Read full poem →While through her yellow teeth the spittle hist,
Swearing by all her lucky powers of fate.
Which like as footboys on her actions wait.
Read full poem →Hounds are pulling, prickers° swearing, °17
Horses fret, and boar-spears glance.
Read full poem →Then their friends all come round me, with cringing and leering,
To melt me to pity, and soften my swearing.
First, Sir Charlès advances, with phrases well strung:
Read full poem →Then their friends all come round me with cringing and leering,
To melt me to pity, and soften my swearing.
First Sir Charles advances with phrases well strung, 55
Read full poem →I ance was ty'd up like a stirk,
For civilly swearing and quaffing;
I ance was abused in the kirk,
Read full poem →One was swearing that he had been shot in the arm through
the commanding general’s mismanagement of the army. One was