Seeing him and listening to him one opines that suffering is not such a horrible thing after all.
"The New Book Of Martyrs"
Georges Duhamel
Papa X. has some plans for a German opera in London, and opines that your operas would have a fine effect there.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
It was just after this event that Uncle Jack, sanguine and light-hearted as ever, suddenly recollected his sister, Mrs. Caxton, and not knowing where else to dine, thought he would repose his limbs under my father's trabes citrea, which the ingenious W. S. Landor opines should be translated "mahogany."
"The Caxtons, Part 2"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton