asseverate
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—At this, the Boy suffered some Confusion, then to asseverate, My Tutor is deceased, Sir.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Why merely say something, when they can declare, assert, expostulate, announce, or asseverate it?
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
She did not asseverate any more, nor even say she was innocent.
From Sue, A Little Heroine by Meade, L. T.
As to whether she was young, middle-aged or only well-preserved, no one was in a position to asseverate.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by McCutcheon, George Barr
"He and Bertha Petterick are together, that is why he is so late," the fiend would asseverate.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah
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