aver

Nothing had happened, yet they averred that something was going to happen.

His mother avers that she never expected her children to take up the family trade.

"They were in it almost from the start," he averred.

Others averred that it all happened too fast to be sure of details.

Because, they averred, it kept their hair from turning gray!

The voice was low but carried even aver the biting wind.

For teaching, he avers, "covers everything and everyone these days."

The date of the lost Latin original is 1461, as the author himself avers.

Only a Korean, he averred, could possess so strong a head.

If, indeed, there was one, as he had constantly averred.

The boy grinned and averred he'd take care of it all personally.

Beatrice averred that she had a poor opinion of a man who would not stay and face whatever was coming.

He averred that the windows of a house made or marred it.

I must get back to the kitchen,' he averred.

Efforts to find out "what really happened" are wisely abandoned, he avers.

"There is a primal connection between people and animals," he averred.

He averred that by Arkansas standards the spelling was correct.

But Wilson, as he later averred, "could hear the roaring of the sea".

"He will aver believe in me again," she said in a voice of winter.

The adult woman would be able to live a full sexual life, he averred, with the exception of being unable to have children.

A counterpart of Heisenberg, she'd have us doubt what we aver.

He had been possessed by many a spirit, he averred.

"Better than any gift you could give me,"she averred.

The kind of death you chose did not much matter, he averred; the great thing was to die handsomely.