The pursuers aver that the defenders were late in completing the contract works. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Gordon (G.E. R.) on the word aver, 292. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
In France "aver" denoted the animal produce or stock on a farm; and there were "averia lanata" likewise. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
That there was any proof of this, I dare not aver. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Some traditions aver that Spain taught the art to Flanders. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
I aver there is a fatal fallacy adopted by a large number of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
She was restless, and as I lay awake, thinking aver all my game with. From Wordnik.com. [Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle] Reference
Intelligence, the Darwinian systematizers are not bold enough to aver. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
At the same time, it is absurd for missionaries to aver of Christians at. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Revenues at his restaurants are twice as high as at the aver age Burger King. From Wordnik.com. [Fast-Food Fast Tracker] Reference
So we may well aver that to read understandingly requires thought and industry. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Then licking his lips, did aver to be true, I was each way as full well accomplish'd as you. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference
Yes, they aver, but Plato falsified when he named his seer a philosopher rather than a poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Most of the faults charged to them, poets aver, exist solely in the evil minds of their critics. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Happy he who can go a little further and aver, "Because I find it the most entrancing of sports.". From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
I solemnly aver that yesterday I found a pair of drawers made for a case of amputation at the thigh. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
This, following upon his imperturbable coolness throughout, had, I can aver, a most aggravating effect. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
"I will defend her with my life, sir," I hastened to aver, "since you are so good as to intrust her to me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Nay, we go further, and aver that he ought when possible to write in the unscrupulous character of a partisan. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
No impartial reader of St. Paul's Epistles can aver that the apostle made a virtue of ignorance and credulity. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
I can solemnly aver, that, till the time when I was bound to a master, I never knew what it was to have a whim. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Yet I would not venture to aver that in Germany no vein of gold or silver is produced; for who has ever searched?. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
You have been of use to me in other matters also, unconsciously I aver -- but we shall talk of that another time. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
No power, poets aver, is stronger to awaken a religious mood than is the quietude of the beauty which they worship. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Besides other things, they'll aver that they harbour evil designs, and that they wish to deprive them of their post. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
I leapt in transport to encounter a majestic Me; and in this impulse I can honestly aver that there was no tinge of vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Marlborough's mercy, which was always looked on as equal to a pardon, and which I can aver was never refused to any one but myself. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Yet I aver that I had not the slightest feeling of personal enmity toward my old friend and classmate General Hood, or his comrades. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
I speak the simple truth when I aver, that these words of the baron gave me infinite distress, and for a moment deprived me of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
For my own part, I distinctly aver that during the altercation upon my arrival there, between them and my Jehaleen, I did hear the words. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
And instantly every one beamed with satisfaction, and was ready to aver that music affords the most delightful and rational entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Notwithstanding this, we cannot aver from experience that our ballads have wrought any marked effect in modifying the laws of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
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