As Sir William Thiselton-Dyer avows: "I do not see even the beginning of a materialistic theory of protoplasm."
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
Price now candidly avows, that he hesitated some time before he invested seven hundred dollars in William W. Brown; for William was a noted runaway!
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
He avows that it is a matter of duty to admire and venerate any performance in a field so difficult as that of letters.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill