Citations:so they said


 * 1858, Azel Stevens Roe, True to the last; or, Alone on a wide, wide sea, page 50:
 * It seems a man had failed, or so they said, and all the things were to be sold
 * 1971, Dhana
 * This is what Mbaite had done - or so they said . No, but not her, Nvanungi, for by the time second term finished she was four months, and it was ...
 * 1989, SPIN, page 58:
 * But it was a bed, or so they said, and I was fading. I was one of the lucky ones; my room had hot water and a shower curtain and only a few cockroaches.
 * 2011, Annie Caulfield, Katie Milk Solves Crimes and so on, Random House (ISBN 9781446451076)
 * Or so they said. Almost as bad. The Burnt Oak Estate girls would have laughed their heads off at a Chinese burn. One of them had a knife when she was nine, ...
 * 2016, Zyranna Zatelē, At Twilight They Return: A Novel in Ten Tales, Yale University Press (ISBN 9780300200713), page 371:
 * ... the first strange indication that something was not right with little Julia, who until then they had marked out—or so they said—for song and dance.
 * 2021, John Mulgan, Man Alone, Victoria University Press (ISBN 9781776564576)
 * "No, boy, no war for me. M&#39;chest&#39;s bad so they said. It&#39;s a good thing it&#39;s over now."