The church authorities add this ominous note: "We are credibly informed that more than thirty souls of the Oregon emigrants perished from hunger in the mountains last season."

Nothing, I am credibly informed, can exceed the shocking and disgusting spectacle of mendicancy displayed in that capital.

I believe there are dodos and auks' eggs, in very small numbers, still to be procured in the proper quarters; but the unsophisticated Gretchen, I am credibly informed, is an extinct animal.

We are credibly informed, in reference to the nation whom this choice spirit so happily disposed of, that the caricatures and stage representations which were current in England some half a century ago, exactly depict their present condition.

I am credibly informed that persons of culture have forgotten John Leyden.

This was your idea, or so I'm credibly informed.

We are credibly informed...that a number countrymen with several Californians are actively engaged in building an extensive caral, or enclosure, in the valley of the river San Joaquin, for the purpose of capturing wild horses.

"I am credibly informed," said Dinny, "that Lord Saxenden is a tough proposition."

Myriads of white storks, of course, but also, as I am credibly informed, the occasional black stork too, God bless her, a bird that I have never yet beheld, a dweller in the plashy forests of the remotest north.

The President says he was credibly informed of the terrorist threat by various sources.