Citations:say

English citations of say

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  Am I afraid to say, that holy writ, Which for its style and phrase puts down all wit, Is everywhere so full of all these things — Dark figures, allegories?

  1. I find not that I am denied the use Of this my method, so I no abuse Put on the words, things, readers; or be rude In handling figure or similitude, In application; but, all that I may, Seek the advance of truth this or that way Denied, did I say?

  Truly, said Christian, I have said the truth of Pliable, and if I should also say all the truth of myself, it will appear there is no betterment betwixt him and myself.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

  If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.

  "There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest.

• 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 95:

  ‘All right,’ said Jessamy. ‘I say, Miss Brindle said she’d think about you coming to see the house some time. I said I was sure you weren’t the stone throwing kind, not at windows, I mean.’

• 2022 April 20, Caity Weaver, “I Lived the #VanLife. It Wasn’t Pretty.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

  The Department of Housing and Urban Development characterizes vehicles as places “not designated for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation,” and because of this it counts people who live in them as members of the “unsheltered homeless” population. But it is ordinary to use some specially designed vehicles — R.V.s, say — as a regular sleeping accommodation, so HUD also advises that whether a vehicle-dweller counts as “unsheltered” is, to some extent, at the counter’s discretion.