depone
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I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
These two females did afterwards depone that Mr Willet in his consternation uttered but one word, and called that up the stairs in a stentorian voice, six distinct times.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens
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
It was not in his quality as confessor that Fra Gervasio heard the dying man depone.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini
She did indeed depone to a line being left for me at her house, which said line miscarried.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 by Robert Chambers
And she hath deponed that on other nights, too, this has happened, that the Queen's Highness, when she hath come late to bed, hath equally done the same thing.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
‘All these are deponed, not to be given till farther orders.’
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
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
Craigengelt, Gowrie’s steward, who was tortured, tried, convicted, and hanged, deponed that, going up the staircase, just after the King’s arrival, he met the Master, booted, and asked ‘where he had been.’
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
He deponed that, on the night of August 4, Gowrie bade him and Andrew Ruthven ride early to Falkland with the Master, and return, if the Master ordered him so to do, with a message.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
"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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