Sentence examples for great oath from inspiring English sources

In response, Sigrdrífa told Odin she had sworn a great oath that she would never wed a man who knew fear.

The great oath-taking scene involves the male chorus getting their shirts off and smearing themselves with blood and earth.

For the moment, Ms. Richardson, whose installation was accompanied by great pomp — the oath, prayer and benediction were in Latin — wishes the issue would go away.

To a great extent, the Oath's value lies with those who are yet to embark on an MBA and still considering which path to pursue in life.

But this doesn't change the fact that the lifting of the student oath is great news for pupils.

According to his jury citation he is a "history painter"; the name of David, the great artist of the Oath of the Horatii, was invoked.

So MPs start work after the election with a combination of two great British traditions: the oath of allegiance and a long queue.

At the end of the week, four dozen of us boarded a convoy of minivans in the White Swan's driveway and headed to the U.S. Consulate to take a communally administered oath in great solemnity in an airport-lounge-like waiting room and be handed our kids' visas.

Legal experts agreed that there is great symbolic value to oath-taking.

He really didn't have to make that promise; public weariness over the war was so great that Ike's generic oath to visit the troops was enough to help sink Truman.

The problems Obama faces today are probably the greatest since FDR took the oath in 1932.