forsooth

• “Attacked!" repeated Wolfe, -- "attacked!" and then suddenly sinking his voice into a sort of sneer, "why, since the event which this painting is designed to commemorate, I know not if we have ever had one solitary gleam of liberty break along the great chaos of jarring prejudice and barbarous law which we term forsooth a glorious constitution.”

  The Disowned — Volume 02

• “Why must my name forsooth be given up to the Commander-in-Chief as that of the most guilty of the grumblers?”

  The Virginians

• “Thou deem’st it Hell but here, forsooth, is Heaven,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Hear sentence forsooth, that is, the ratling of broken glasses, and the expounding of dreams?”

  The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter

• “So that there on her head sang the ring-sword forsooth”

  The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats

• “But let him now dare _allude_ to Romanism -- he offends one-half of his congregation -- he is _preaching_ politics -- they will hear him no more; or forsooth, which is more common, they will withhold his support and starve him out!”

  Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors

• “You pretend to carry despatches to a general who has been dead these ten months: you have an uncle who is an ambassador, and whose name forsooth you don't know.”

  Barry Lyndon

• “Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any case.”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 09: January/February/March 1660-61

• “Verily", "forsooth" - words consigned to the vocabulary dustbin hundreds of years ago resurrected for use in a video game.”

  VideoGamer.com - All Updates

• “Or drives them to "forsooth" style roleplaying or, more often, to the selfishly fulfilling but socially pathological road of deriving fun from ganking others.”

  Oh tragedy

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