If this is not the being and the doing of a novelist this deponent very humbly declareth that he knoweth not what the being and the doing of a novelist are.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
As to size and shape, this deponent sayeth nought.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
If the two can fix it between themselves, I shall cry nunc dimittis, but further than this, the deponent saith and doeth not.
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford