swear down

She tried to stand, to swear down at him.

It follows a foul-mouthed outburst on the pitch in which Rooney swore down the lens of a live camera.

On April 2, Rooney swore down the camera at Upton Park.

Dangling from the rigging, Joshua Evans flailed and squirmed and swore down at the leader of the detective trio.

He grasped the coarse woolen khalat of the nearest corpse, and swore down Yar Ali Khan's instant objections.

As SSE bigwigs tried to explain why its prices had risen because of levies imposed at wholesale, the staff struggled to pass the information on to numerous customers swearing down the phone.

But this kind of proof is of no value where truth is the aim; a man may often be sworn down by a multitude of false witnesses who have a great air of respectability.

Drogba's antics, particularly swearing down a Sky lens into a million living rooms, have badly damaged Chelsea's image and Abramovich would recoup some kudos for his battered club by sacking Drogba.

Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman, Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths, Though they would swear down each particular saint, Were testimonies against his worth and credit, That's seal'd in approbation?

It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly, so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust.

There were long periods of waiting and endless periods of walking; there were jostlings and disputes and the nameless, brutal caresses of the stray passer-by who was taken by them to some miserable furnished room and came swearing down the greasy stairs afterward.

Another, whom it hath pleased nature to furnish with more beard than brain, prunes his mustaccio; lisps, and, with some score of affected oaths, swears down all that sit about him; "That the old Hieronimo, as it was first acted, was the only best, and judiciously penn'd play of Europe".