Salmasius, who knew much of the Greek tongue, and very little of cookery, avers that the ancients knew two different kinds of truffles.
Tradition avers that Colonel Godfrey Malbone, seeing his house in flames, ordered the table removed to the lawn, and coolly finished his dinner there.
A constant series of disasters has confounded them," avers the witch-hating old divine.
A scanty subsistence at most could be wrung from the soil, though Williamson, the historian of Maine, avers this was once strong and fertile in the valleys.
Darwin avers that the weaker portion of the species having been carried off by natural extinction, the next generation, having been derived only from the stronger portion of the race, will be of a still stronger constitution.
When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed.
An old Cornish legend avers that King Arthur is still alive in the form of a raven; and certain superstitious people refuse to shoot these birds, from a fear that they might inadvertently destroy the mythic warrior.
In truth, we owe the preservation of the features which identify this romantic spot to the very hand which the author of "Crayon Miscellany" avers is "execrated by every poetic pilgrim.
Upon a hill of the forest not far away the body of Aram hung in irons, and local tradition avers that his widow watched to recover the bones as they fell, and when she had at last interred them all, emigrated with her children to America.
And here the burden lay, which crushed this man, from which he never thenceforward could, even for an instant, free himself, and which Saint Paul avers to be the heaviest burden man can bear.
And the petitioner further avers that the issue of said writ of habeas corpus and the discharge of your petitioner thereunder were and are essential to defeat the execution of the said conspiracy.
Again, Mr. Oxford aversthat 'the old Israelites knew no distinction between physical and moral evil.
Mr. Oxford next avers that 'the earliest form of the Israelite religion was Fetishism or Totemism.
Yet Herr Parish avers that, in all calculations, it is assumed that hallucinations are equally readily recalled whether impressive or not!
He here avers that he cares very little "to know his shames or praises" from the tongues of others, and that his friend's judgment is all in all to him; but in Sonnet cxxi.
Yet science avers that the manifestations of energy which we call light, radiant heat, magnetism, and electricity, all come from the activities of the electrons.
On this dark Grass rustic superstition avers that no sheep or lamb will browse.
It has been said that this volume hardly went beyond the circle of Keats's personal friends; nor do I think this statement can be far wrong, although one inquirer avers that the book was "constantly alluded to in the prominent periodicals.
Severn himself avers that Keats never spoke of any one unless by way of saying something in his favour.
A little later he avers that the only way to save the French monarchy is by a civil war, "and England (unless won over) will support the popular party.
The same authority avers that Pitt, on being asked--"If we lose you, where could we find a successor?
The most remarkable point in the libel avers that Leicester's first idea was to poison Amy.
Writing to Mason on Monday, November 29, Walpole avers that Lord Lyttelton was 'attended only by four virgins, whom he had picked up in the Strand.
However, he avers that the story of clairvoyance was current in the spring of 1429.
The libel avers that the conspirators, 'seeing the good lady sad and heavy,' asked Dr.
The account is headed 'A Dream,' and yet the author avers that Lord Lyttelton was wide awake!
Another letter of Marsilly to Arlington, only dated Jeudi, avers that he can never repay Arlington for his extreme kindness and liberality.
Quicherat avers that Alain was present: I cannot find this in his letter.
He avers that their small hands and feet would make an English or American girl die with envy, and that they dance like sylphs.
Ahmad Zohrab,[64] the interpreter of Abdul Baha, avers that "the writings of Azal are most childish.
Subh-i-Azal avers that they wilfully destroyed them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
