2001, Brook Ziporyn, Omnipotence for the Millions, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 2:
Tomorrow came the ax, or so they had said, then as now, once among many times someone or other had said so, neither the first nor the last.
2006, Stan I. S. Law, The Avatar Syndrome, INHOUSEPRESS (→ISBN), page 151:
Or so they had said. Michael had never seen Anne being unfair to anyone. Nor taking advantage of someone weaker than she. If you don't count the flies, ...
2009, Austin Coates, The Road, Hong Kong University Press (→ISBN), page 250:
instincts, prepared to defy anything and anyone—prepared to defy the water, or so they had said. A very ordinary 'good morning', in a completely neutral ...
2012, Amy Wilentz, Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN)
... they could stop Namphy from becoming another obvious dictator like Panama's Noriega, at the time that Namphy was well-intentioned, or so they had said.
2012, Douglas Reeman, The Volunteers, Random House (→ISBN)
Or so they had said. He still wondered about it. Four days after leaving Gibraltar they groped their way into the Tunisian port of Sousse.
2013, Gwen Kirkwood, Home To Lochandee: The Lochandee Series, Accent Press (→ISBN)
... drafting men off to war or to some other service for the good of the country, or so they had said. It had never happened to him in Britain since Mr and ...
2013, DeeAnn Frye, Circle of Five, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 38:
... passed away within a few weeks of each other just about six months ago, his father from old age and his mother from a broken heart, or so they had said.
Or so they had said. She wondered if they were speaking the truth or if they were spies. Her mind wondered as she thought of the past and the present.
2015, Kurt and Celeste Burnum, Time Walkers: Unabridged, Booktango (→ISBN)
Or so they had said. She had attested to the fact that. “There was a man who had apparently performed these acts of violence while he made her watch!)
2017, Christine Feehan, Dark Promises, Penguin (→ISBN), page 128:
Or so they had said. Esmeralda had known. She'd made the initial contact online at a site where readers of vampire novels came together to discuss the books ...
2020, Ronald Wintrick, Antz: Interstellar War, Ronald Wintrick
He was one of the highest rated recessives, or so they had said, and so they would wait for him or fit him in another time.
2021, Amanda Bateman, Tying The Knot, Troubador Publishing Ltd (→ISBN)
... was in exceptionally good shape for a woman of her age, or so they had said. But it had given them cause to think about the unthinkable happening.
2021, Margaret Thornton, Families and Friendships: An enchanting Yorkshire saga of marriage and motherhood, Canelo (→ISBN)
... and the railway stations closed, to make way for improved road travel, or so they had said. Whitesands Bay still had their railway station.
