Word. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

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1. Read! 2. Your word is as good as the bank, sir. Holcroft.—The Road to Ruin, Act I. Scene 1.	1
I’ll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack both. Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act I. Scene 2. (The Prince to Helicanus.)	2
1. I will not indeed pledge you, like a wicked man, by an oath. 2. You would gain nothing farther at least than by my word. Buckley’s Sophocles, Œdipus Coloneus, Page 77.	3
So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow; for down he knocked me, and laid me for dead. Bunyan.—Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I.	4
And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow. Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Scene 1. (Mercutio to Tybalt.)	5
I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pounds. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To Horatio.)	6