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Two decades ago Alastair Morgan made solemn promise to his dead brother that he “would not rest” until the corruption was exposed.

It was a litany of our challenges and his solemn promise to meet them.

He consented to the trial, receiving Planner's solemn promise that, in the event of failure, it should be the last.

Her cousin had only forced a solemn promise from her with the intention of covering her own ignominy.

My lady carried it down, with a solemn promise that I should receive an unassisted French letter.

With tears enough to float a ship, Verena gave him her solemn promise that she never would leave him again.

I was under a solemn promise not to tell—a promise that I've jest now broken.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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