asseverate

She did not asseverate any more, nor even say she was innocent.

And I hereby do fully and freely declare and asseverate, that the Woods did not tremble to a kiss, and that the lovers did.

"He and Bertha Petterick are together, that is why he is so late," the fiend would asseverate.

And she was very glad also that he did not deign to asseverate that he had been ignorant of his half-sister's plight.

"She belongs to the machine," he would asseverate with warmth.