Kind of oath

Usage examples of loyalty.

In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.

The people hauled in to testify about why they voted absentee offered a vivid picture of the fierce loyalties, rough politics, and economic pressures that shaped the lives of Arkansas hill people.

Marshall, the initiator of the command crisis, refused to acquiesce in the recall in which his own policy as much as loyalty to Stilwell was involved.

The sight of his head, when it was exposed to the eyes of the people, convinced them of their deliverance, and admonished them to receive with acclamations of loyalty and gratitude the fortunate Constantine, who thus achieved by his valor and ability the most splendid enterprise of his life.

I, who was already overwhelmed with distress, could bear this aggravation of misfortune and disgrace: I, who had always maintained the reputation of loyalty, which was acquired at the hazard of my life, and the expense of my blood.

Having by the proclamation extended amnesty on the simple condition of an oath of loyalty to the Union and the Constitution, and obedience to the Decree of Emancipation, the President had established a definite and easily ascertainable constituency of white men in the South to whom the work of reconstructing civil government in the several States might be intrusted.

What makes a man great and freed of soul, here or anywhither, is loyalty to the laws of right, of truth, of purity, of love, and the lofty will of God.

Courage, loyalty, sacrifice, the knowledge to survive in the most appalling conditions.

Binalshibh rejoined Atta and Jarrah, who said they already had pledged loyalty to Bin Ladin and urged him to do the same.

It was very difficult for him to transplant feelings of loyalty from the Baptist, to this relative Stranger.

She had hated the way Benet had looked, so intently, so fascinated, at Mervion, as they had been introduced at the great state dinner, but she was desperately sure that her loyalty to her beloved should be above such petty jealousies, that he should be warned.

Willa for he had known Bevel too long to harbor doubts about his loyalty.

Sometimes they bore the name of the reigning pharaoh and were worn as a token of loyalty, in other cases the bezel was ornamented with the image of a god favored by the wearer.

The man was French, but spoke good English, and his loyalty was proclaimed by the white cockades that he wore, not only on his brown cloak, but also on his bicorne hat.

It had been given to him by Bokram, as a reward for his loyalty and bravery.