Citations:declare


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Nay, I have leave (Example too, and that from them that have God better pleased, by their words or ways, Than any man that breatheth now-a-days) Thus to express my mind, thus to declare Things unto thee that excellentest are.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.
 * By the utmost self-violence I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which sometimes desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice.
 * 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.