| 1. | No affidavit would have had half the claim upon her as that simple enunciation. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 2. | I mean no disparagement to the excellent voyager I honour him for a veteran, but in so important a matter it was certainly an oversight not to have procured for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of the Peace. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |