"I think swearing, though it sounds cool, is overrated," Gottwald said.
In his weekly column, Matthew d'Ancona wrote that Mitchell has admitted that he swore, though it was not aimed directly at the police.
Its dictionary is stuffed with business words and, oddly, names of Nokia executives, but no swear words, though these can be added.
It was in the punishment cell at Recsk that Faludy composed his luminous Western Australia, containing these lines (in Robin Skelton's translation): "'Not so!' I cry, and smiling, stand up, still bloody from the latest kicks and beatings, and swear, 'Instead, though jailed and shackled, I will fight this tyranny, give it no peace from my rhymes, not even when dead.'" In 1953 Stalin died.
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I wouldn't swear to it, though.
"Jack, I swear — " he said, though Jack had never asked him to swear anything and was himself not the swearing kind.
Men with dry skin or especially coarse hair swear by it, though it's best applied with a brush.
"I swear to you, though you did not ask me to make an oath, instead of enduring all these beatings I would tell you where he is if I knew".
The 1689 Toleration Act introduced the right to affirm rather than swear before God, though when Lionel de Rothschild was elected as an MP in 1847, and declined as a Jew to swear on the Bible, he was not allowed to take his seat.
