declare

• "I declare, they are splendid pictures Then you like them?" —  The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods
• I declare--if he isn't pulling! —  Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way
• He had dived under the cover of the grapevine and hid in a chink between the stones, where Jasper could not find him I declare--" said Jasper Jay at last--"I declare, he's got away from me!" —  The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales
• She began to half believe the truth of what she had once with great astonishment heard Anne Valery declare--ay, even Anne Valery--that if the noblest moral type of man and of woman were each placed side by side, the man would be the greater of the two But this thought she kept fondly to herself, and suffered Emma to talk on without much attending to her conversation. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
• "I declare, here's a beast been and shoved its head into a hole, and converted its tail into a trap We all three lay down as quietly as possible, and I could not but smile when I thought of the literal correctness of my friend's quaint description of what we saw The insect was a species of ant-eater. —  The Gorilla Hunters

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