Some aver that she indeed walked the earth, a Wonder Woman, and that her charm perhaps stirred up strife among nations, but that her fame kept on growing after she was dead, until-even as hundreds of jokes were attributed to Joe Miller that Joe never perpetrated or even heard-people got to making her the heroine of a myriad impossible deeds and adventures that no one woman or no ten women could have achieved.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
But for the private satisfaction of so good a man, I left him out of doubt that we were man and wife, though I did not directly aver it.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
Let me aver, that there are thousands and ten thousands, who have worse stories to tell than this would appear to be, had I not interested thee in the progress to my great end.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson