I hear all the time that it shows a lack of intelligence because the "swearer" simply does not have vocabulary large enough to utilize. From Wordnik.com. [Megan Fox has something to say about peer pressure] Reference
But nobody, including the swearer, believed much in Master. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Let us whisper that the honorable secretary was a profound swearer. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
I know him to be a swearer, a liar, a Sabbath-breaker; I know him to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy War] Reference
The swearer allowed his tongue to move as unchecked in insulting his Maker as before. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
He was a screamer, a swearer, and he threw things, anything he happened to be holding. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
If, however, the swearer uses no guile, he is bound in accordance with his own intention. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
She was well educated, but a roundabout writer, and rather a hard swearer and coarse talker. From Wordnik.com. [A Child's History of England] Reference
So he, too, in spite of old Nan's protestations and entreaties, had become a confirmed swearer. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
Even naming it was dangerous—oaths sworn on it were kept, or the swearer died, sometimes with assistance. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
He stated that he had been claimed by Henry L. Brooke, whom he declared to be a "hard drinker and a hard swearer.". From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
The religious oath is content with searching the conscience in order to verify the sincerity or insincerity of the swearer. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
I called Direct TV everyday and bitched them out that may be the first time I've ever sworn on this blog, I'm not a big swearer. From Wordnik.com. [Questions] Reference
Book H, fos. 220b, 221; a clause having been subsequently added to the latter to the effect that the swearer abjured the opinions of. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
O that this my experience had not cost me so dear! but were I to love a thousand years, I would always suspect the veracity of a swearer. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Judge has said to the swearer and filthy speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet] Reference
The next, as I said, I went to was a common swearer. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer] Reference
"I thort that wur yur bisness," continued the swearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
Compostella, the swearer had been in his most cheerful mood. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
From having been a mighty swearer, owing to Joan of Arc's influence La. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc] Reference
Meetings, and a dreadful swearer, a short time ago died triumphant in the faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Authoritative Life of General William Booth] Reference
I dare say he is like his name -- one of your father's cronies -- a drinker and a swearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Carpenter's Daughter] Reference
He's a hard swearer, to tell the truth; and I am afraid he's too old to be broken of it. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpet-Major] Reference
Why it should follow from this that the Messiah was an inveterate swearer, I cannot imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
You know it's natural to suppose that a bad man should be a drinker, a smoker, and a swearer. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win] Reference
A man or woman is a drunkard, or a rogue, or a swearer: how often their children grow up like them!. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on National Subjects] Reference
He had been a reckless character, a drunkard, a swearer, an ill husband and a worse father, in the sight of all men. From Wordnik.com. [Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not] Reference
'A man is known by the company he keeps; 'take care therefore how you frequent the company of the swearer or the sensualist. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Man's Guide] Reference
A chronic swearer came to be looked upon with disfavour by the community, since the punishment of his transgression fell upon all. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference
In the first place, I never heard a more accomplished swearer, east of the Alleghanies, than one young lady who addressed me and my. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series Two] Reference
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