depone
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It would have seemed utterly impossible, but "El Hombre propone y el Deos depone" as the Mexicans say.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson
Mr Melmotte had been asked to depone the title-deeds, and had promised to do so as soon as the day of the wedding should have been fixed with the consent of all the parties.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
One of the hands speaking in vulgar English accent was heard to depone, 'By George if I could only get that prize I'd be a happy man, and would go back to old h-England.'
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
Hill, in his deposition, doth further depone, that he hasten'd him away all he could, and gave him a letter to Ardkinlas to receive him as a lost sheep; ...
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by James Pringle Thomson
Hislop deponed, in the first place, that Lorimer, not Wotherspoon, was the actual forger of the bill, and that he had seen him write it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
"I deponed I'd come, didn't I?" repeated the old fellow, and he was still deponing when Douglas started homeward.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
‘All these are deponed, not to be given till farther orders.’
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
I guess if the truth be deponed he's fonder of me than he is of anybody—excepting maybe Judith.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
"Ay, wha kens that but herself?" said Saddletree; "she deponed farther, and declined to answer that interrogatory."
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
"I deponed I'd come, didn't I?" repeated the old fellow, and he was still deponing when Douglas started homeward.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
"I heard Jimmy Day deponing at the post-office to-day that Charleton was still off on a trip."
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
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