1 I have promised to drive with the duchess.
2 I have promised to meet a man at the Orleans.
3 He won't like you the better for keeping your promises.
4 Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book to any one.
5 "But I thought you had promised Basil Hallward to go and see him," answered Lord Henry.
6 I promised to go to a club in Whitechapel with her last Tuesday, and I really forgot all about it.
7 "This will do," he answered, and having got out hastily and given the driver the extra fare he had promised him, he walked quickly in the direction of the quay.
8 I have promised to dine at White's, but it is only with an old friend, so I can send him a wire to say that I am ill, or that I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement.
9 It was clear to him that the experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions; and certainly Dorian Gray was a subject made to his hand, and seemed to promise rich and fruitful results.
10 He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so; and that of the lives that had crossed his own, it had been the fairest and the most full of promise that he had brought to shame.