break one's word
Example Sentences
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To break one's word is pleasure-fraught, To do one's duty gives a smart; While man, alas! will promise nought, That is repugnant to his heart.
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred
And it's downright wicked to break one's word.
From A Little Florida Lady by Paine, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Charlotte)
One of these—pride in appearing not to need to break one's word, he supposes too rare to be presumed upon.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
