1 At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been.
2 But it is your happiness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.
3 My cousins say they are sure I have made a conquest; but for my part I declare I never think about him from one hour's end to another.
4 I declare, I have no patience with your sister; and I hope, with all my heart, it will be a match in spite of her.
5 My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.
6 When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook's indignant stare so taxed me with it.
7 He waited for me to declare that I quite understood that he expressly said that he admitted nothing.
8 I declare,' said my mother, gently, 'they are exactly alike.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON 9 When I awoke next morning, I was resolute to declare my passion to Dora, and know my fate.
10 "Very well, then, we wish to see his rooms," said the lawyer; and when the woman began to declare it was impossible, "I had better tell you who this person is," he added.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE 11 ; and may declare that I see no wonder in this shrubbery equal to seeing myself in it.
12 By that right I do and will deserve you; and when once convinced that my attachment is what I declare it, I know you too well not to entertain the warmest hopes.
13 I meet them wherever I go; and I declare, I never go twice into my nursery without seeing something of them.
14 I had not recollected it before, I declare, but it must be very bad.
15 I declare, Charles, I never heard him mention Anne twice all the time I was there.