Okay, you'll get something his own mother would swear was perfect.

"My mother always swore by vinegar, moss and webs."

His mother apologised and swore he wouldn't be back.

"My mother swore we'd never live in a boardinghouse again," he says, "but circumstances did not allow her to keep this promise."

She said that her mother always swore by this.

The mother swears that he will take up orders, but when he does not follow through she dies of grief.

Now they were fully grown, but their mother swore that she would have known them anywhere.

The little boy's mother swore in French that she had never seen anything like it in her life.

His mother had sworn he'd never live that long.

The boy's mother swears distinctly that she heard a voice say, "How dare you break my window?"