Noun : by my troth. ,in troth. From Dictionary.com.
‘My troth is pledged,’ said the bandit; ‘I can never betray him in whose veins my own blood is flowing.’. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of 'Alroy'] Reference
By my troth, that is good blood to have in one's veins!. From Wordnik.com. [The Thrall of Leif the Lucky] Reference
"By my troth, that is Sir Guy of Gisborne's horn," quoth the Sheriff. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Hood] Reference
I recalled my troth, plighted earlier, before I had ever seen her, -- my faith, pledged in another world. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of a Man] Reference
An in troth I will you sheet. From Wordnik.com. [Bonny Birdie] Reference
My troth is pledged to that place of yours. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I come to recall my troth. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon] Reference
In one man of the earls to have trusting and troth. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
I told him o 'our plighted troth, but it was a' in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
With word or with work the troth should be breaking, 1100. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Prince Sigtryg of, his troth-plight with daughter of King. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
Joy! joy! his love is spoken; his manly troth is plighted. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
"It is ordained," she said, and thus their troth was plighted. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
So, while standing thus together, let us pledge anew our troth. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
"Indeed, and by my troth! there's like to be that!" he repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
But to the gallant young White Cloud her plighted troth she gave. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
A cute attendee winks as if to assure him of her supply-room troth. From Wordnik.com. [Waketaurs] Reference
"By my troth I will not listen to such dreadful words," interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War] Reference
John Burke told me that he loved me, and I plighted my troth to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
"In good troth! thou art a bat of the most blind species," said Frank. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
"By my troth, I know not what you mean, Maud," said Mary, indignantly. From Wordnik.com. [Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War] Reference
"By my troth, Maud, this is more wonderful than anything else," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War] Reference
They met and plighted their troth and were married secretly, and were happy. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
One word, to utter more how can I troth ever presume, when shame overpowers me. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Alastair, beloved; when I've a sign to bury wi 'ye that will prove to ye my troth.'. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
By my troth, we had long ago fled from Asia could fables have been able to scare us. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
"Oh! my lord, my lord," she murmured, "does Heaven disapprove of our plighted troth?". From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
He took the troth-plight of two brothers; the doughty heroes gave oaths one to another. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Clerk Sanders is only disturbed in his grave because he has not got back his troth-plight. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
"In troth I did, sir," said Campbell, "and I think it nae great thing to mak 'a sang about.". From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
"Take away the head and let me not see it; nor will I pledge you my troth to make you glad.". From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
These troth are beauteous purple and fine carmine flowers, which in this way all round do bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
And I 'll be here, probably with a cold in my head as usual, and thereto I plight thee my troth!'. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
And so before the monarch -- in that court which Marguerite called the Court of Love -- they plighted their troth. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Then came the merchant's son and all was going well, so well that they both pledged their love and plighted their troth. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Could one so fair and good be without heart, and indifferent to the unworthiness of him to whom she had given her troth?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Every newspaper and television station in the state should prominently publicize the scoundrels who are feeding off the public troth. From Wordnik.com. [Blake Fleetwood: Ed Koch: You're Either on the Side of the Angels, or You're a Bum] Reference
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