Then, my dear Mrs. Caswell, if you will affirm nothing, I have a way to make you speak.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
We may affirm of it, as has been affirmed of another great poem, that it was the work of the Poet's life, his favourite child, for which he stored up the riches of his science and the fruits of his inspiration.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Now here they are right in what they affirm, wrong in what they deny.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae