There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. From LearnThat.org. [William Shakespeare (1564-1616)]
For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself. From Wordnik.com. [Page 2] Reference
Did he perjure himself and did he obstruct justice?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashback: Larry Craig Called Bill Clinton "A Bad Boy, A Naughty Boy"] Reference
“It would be wise not to perjure yourself,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
"How may a man dare perjure his soul to bring her to this!". From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
“And — hey — maybe he actually did perjure himself.”. From Wordnik.com. [Conservatives Refuse to Defend Gonzales on Faux News] Reference
COOPER: What does that mean, she has a chance to perjure herself?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2009] Reference
No, it was not this that caused you to perjure your plighted vows. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Is it because you are a liar and you're going to perjure yourself?. From Wordnik.com. [Yo Bush, Listen Up!] Reference
We were told by our lawyer that we would have to perjure ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2006] Reference
No, it was not that which caused you to perjure your plighted vows. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
BLITZER: Did the president perjure himself in that civil deposition?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: President Begins Trip to South Asia; NRA and Clinton Administration Blast Each Other; Pat Buchanan Campaigning for Reform Party Nomination - March 19, 2000] Reference
COOPER: What does that mean, she has a chance to perjure (ph) herself?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2009] Reference
We perjure ourselves on made up truths - white picket fenced normalcy. From Wordnik.com. [Histrionics of Men] Reference
And I'm not going go up and perjure myself in front of the U.S. S.nate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2006] Reference
"In Cork you shall be, if I have to perjure my soul to prove it!" cried. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
The witnesses perjure themselves without scruple and without exception. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
“If she asked you to lie for her, to perjure yourself, would you do it?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and Monsieur Charles]
But on the big issues - did Clinton perjure himself? did Hillary obstruct justice?. From Wordnik.com. [A Starr-Crossed Probe?] Reference
M'Carter offered to swear it in, when Mason said if he did so he would perjure himself. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference
By those laws, men were forbid to perjure themselves, or to forswear, that is, swear falsely. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
By our Hermes of the market-place, if caught in the act, why, I perjure myself before those who saw me. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
She has a chance to perjure herself, the way it was ordered by the courts, if she produces Daniel Hauser. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2009] Reference
He certainly wasn't deterred by such a nuisance as an oath, evidenced by his willingness to perjure himself. From Wordnik.com. [What Passes for Argument Among the Bushites] Reference
She has a chance to perjure (ph) herself the way it was ordered by the courts, if she produces Daniel Hauser. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2009] Reference
And about the witnesses he had hired to perjure themselves if necessary and swear that she was both a thief and a murderer. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
And I kept wondering and asking, but never getting a satisfactory answer, what's a perjury trap if you don't perjure yourself?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2006] Reference
RODRIGUEZ-TASSEF: Hey, there were Secret Service agents in that room watching him perjure himself and they didn't say anything. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2004] Reference
So, in most jurisdictions, if a lawyer knows that his client will perjure himself, he must refrain from putting him under oath. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Ask, Don't Tell] Reference
There shouldn't have been a Watergate Committee where Dean could perjure himself to death and where there was no way to check it. From Wordnik.com. [Silent Coup: The Removal of a President] Reference
Though warned by the waterfairies not to perjure himself, he neglects their advice and Undine finds him in the arms of her rival. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Q One of the other things that the polls show is that the majority of the people believe he did perjure himself before the grand jury. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
After the administrator and Marjorie Tench forced me to perjure myself in the press conference, they knew I couldn't go back on my word. From Wordnik.com. [Deception Point]
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