Forsooth

"Attacked!" repeated Wolfe, -- "attacked!" and then suddenly sinking his voice into a sort of sneer, "why, since the event which this painting is designed to commemorate, I know not if we have ever had one solitary gleam of liberty break along the great chaos of jarring prejudice and barbarous law which we term forsooth a glorious constitution. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Why must my name forsooth be given up to the Commander-in-Chief as that of the most guilty of the grumblers? ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

Thou deem’st it Hell but here, forsooth, is Heaven, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Hear sentence forsooth, that is, the ratling of broken glasses, and the expounding of dreams? ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)

So that there on her head sang the ring-sword forsooth ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

But let him now dare _allude_ to Romanism -- he offends one-half of his congregation -- he is _preaching_ politics -- they will hear him no more; or forsooth, which is more common, they will withhold his support and starve him out! ❋ William Gannaway Brownlow (1841)

You pretend to carry despatches to a general who has been dead these ten months: you have an uncle who is an ambassador, and whose name forsooth you don't know. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

"Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any case." ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)

"Verily", "forsooth" - words consigned to the vocabulary dustbin hundreds of years ago resurrected for use in a video game. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or drives them to "forsooth" style roleplaying or, more often, to the selfishly fulfilling but socially pathological road of deriving fun from ganking others. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He brings home woolly rabbits and indiarubber elephants, and expects the Child to be contented "forsooth" with suchlike aids to its education. ❋ Unknown (1893)

On all these matters then I advise that you dispatch an embassy to confer with the king, and put aside that nonsense which has so often damaged you -- "the barbarian," forsooth, "the common enemy" -- and the like. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1837)

You pretend to carry despatches to a general who has been dead these ten months: you have an uncle who is an ambassador, and whose name forsooth you don’t know. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any case." ” ❋ Pepys, Samuel (1661)

A plaintive whine about those mean Conservatives, and then a proposal for a "national conversation," forsooth, where the common folk can all talk about Canada seven years hence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He spoke of a politics of unity as opposed to a politics of division: his language was dated ( "two solitudes," forsooth), but his welcome notion of inclusion, versus Harper's perennial, angry us-vs-them divisiveness, would have been balm for an electorate weary of that nasty and fundamentally unproductive game. ❋ Unknown (2009)