1 'I ask one promise,' said Harry.
2 'I promise you solemnly,' answered Rose.
3 By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission.
4 Oliver, quite elated and honoured by a sense of his importance, faithfully promised to be secret and explicit in his communications.
5 I have promised for your being quiet and silent; if you are not, you will only do harm to yourself and me too, and perhaps be my death.
6 They asked her,' said Noah, who, as he grew more wakeful, seemed to have a dawning perception who Sikes was, 'they asked her why she didn't come, last Sunday, as she promised.
7 Finally, the officers, without troubling themselves very much about Oliver, left the Chertsey constable in the house, and took up their rest for that night in the town; promising to return the next morning.
8 Mr. Giles acted in the double capacity of butler and steward to the old lady of the mansion; Brittles was a lad of all-work: who, having entered her service a mere child, was treated as a promising young boy still, though he was something past thirty.
9 Having described the precise situation of the office, and accompanied it with copious directions how he was to walk straight up the passage, and when he got into the side, and pull off his hat as he went into the room, Charley Bates bade him hurry on alone, and promised to bide his return on the spot of their parting.
10 The doctor then communicated, in reply to multifarious questions from his young friend, a precise account of his patient's situation; which was quite as consolatory and full of promise, as Oliver's statement had encouraged him to hope; and to the whole of which, Mr. Giles, who affected to be busy about the luggage, listened with greedy ears.