Citations:commit


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But when you are come to the town, and shall find fulfilled what I have here related, then remember your friend, and quit yourselves like men, and commit the keeping of your souls to your God in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
 * Besides, he that kills another, can but commit murder upon his body; but for one to kill himself is to kill body and soul at once.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * It is certain these people do not commit this as a crime; it is not against their own consciences reproving, or their light reproaching them; they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of divine justice, as we do in almost all the sins we commit.
 * But among all my relations or acquaintances I could not yet pitch upon one to whom I durst commit the gross of my stock, that I might go away to the Brazils, and leave things safe behind me; and this greatly perplexed me.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.