Example Sentences

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Quavered he: 'If all of us old men and old women were put in the front rank, I'm not sure there'd be a war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Longshanks, trembling at the knee, Quavered, "Hans, he's watching me!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 by Various