The general swears rather more than is the fashion of the present day; but it was the mode in the old school.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
I think it was for declining to assist to cure some fish in spring; but if James Brown swears it was for selling fish, that may have been the case.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
My girl was not one of the kind who sends her lover to war and swears she will die an old maid unless he returns.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey