My avowed one, or what I avowed to myself, was to see whether your sister were still partial to Bingley, and if she were, to make the confession to him which I have since made.
Does not one Thackeray shamelessly avow on the last page of a grossly " subjective" novel that he had killed Lord Farintosh's mother at one page and brought her to life again at another?
He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers without bridges, by putting on full steam;and many of those present avowed themselves of the engineer's mind.
An honest Youth of Cordova, Journeyman to an Apothecary, found that her fortune would be sufficient to set him up in a genteel Shop of his own: In consequence of this reflection He avowed himself her Admirer.
Many of these countenances belonged to the old days, when the gospel of Pellerin was unknown, and it required considerable intellectual courage to avow one's acceptance of the very doctrines he had since demolished.
When his opponent, after careful conversation, avowed the secret of his own purposes, confident that he had secured his listener's assent, Grandet answered: " I can decide nothing without consulting my wife" .
As I just said, honey, this is important, that first part of that sentence, in expressing, in avowing and asserting the proposition, what I'm doing effectively is saying that I do believe it.
Whilst women avow, and act up to such opinions, their understandings, at least, deserve the contempt and obloquy that men, WHO NEVER insult their persons, have pointedly levelled at the female mind.
So when Hamlet's mother says that the Queen in the play protests too much, she means that she's promising or avowing too much, so much so that she loses credibility.
The textbooks refused even to discuss theories, frankly throwing up their hands and avowing that progress depended on studying each rock as a law to itself.