sworn friendship

An old and sworn friendship was already shredding through forces not of their own fault or making.

The gladiator looked at the hand and the bond of sworn friendship it represented.

Dain has crowned their chief with gold, and sworn friendship with them for ever.

Now Var knew what the man had gone through, and why he had sworn friendship to the wild boy who had aided him then.

It appears that you and I have sworn friendship, Nob, and so bound our lives, or our deaths, together.

He did not say what he most feared: that Larry, through sworn friendship and fear for Barron, might have set Valdir on his track.

The more Juanna thought of the matter, the more she became convinced that her only hope lay in Olfan himself, who had sworn friendship to her, and who certainly was no traitor.

The attic of the family's house is the nostalgic setting for a retrospective of love and marriage, birthday celebrations, proposals, sworn friendships and all manner of positive human connections, which are sometimes referred to as family values.

Still, I tell you this, that had it not been for the omen of the diviner I would have refused your prayer and delivered you and the Swallow over to Bull-Head, for with him I have sworn friendship long ago.

According to Fredegar, who seems to have been personally interested in this event, the last which he recorded, both were the victims of divine judgement, for they had sworn friendship in holy places and had subsequently despoiled land to enrich themselves and made war on each other.

He seemed to taste again the half-forgotten days of his own boyhood, when he, the clumsiest of the cadets, had been accepted as one of them because of his sworn friendship with Coryn, who, like Domenic, had been the best liked, the most energetic and outrageous of them all.

He thought of Yisselda, to whom he had sworn to return, of Count Brass, whom he had sworn to aid in the struggle against Granbretan and he thought of Oladahn, with whom he had sworn friendship after the little beast-man had saved his life.