depone
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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
"He's up on the shoulder of Lost Chief, I depone," said Johnny.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
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
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
"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 deponed that same thing to Peter the other day.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
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
It had been deponed to me offeecially that no’ a tradesman—no’ the Deacon here himsel’—could have made a cleaner job wi’ Andra Simpson’s shutters.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
"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
