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  • Our history books attest to that.†   (source)
  • While David was initially the suspect for the charge, I have in my possession statements attesting to the fact that David stopped the spread of the fire set by another minor.†   (source)
  • I'd signed away permission to trace credit cards and ATMs and track Amy's cell phone, I'd handed over Go's cell number and the name of Sue, the widow at The Bar, who could presumably attest to the time I arrived.†   (source)
  • He was Carvahall's smith, as his thick neck and scarred leather apron attested.†   (source)
  • I can now attest that magic camels spit like, poo like, drool like, bite like, eat like, and, most disgustingly, smell like normal camels.†   (source)
  • It read: I, by signing below, hereby attest to the fact that I can neither read nor write.†   (source)
  • — Rev. Montague Summers If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of the vampires.†   (source)
  • Acceptance of "the distinguished gentleman's offer," they wrote, would be "equivalent to a statement that the great body of civil engineers in this country, whose noble works attest their skill abroad as well as throughout the length and breadth of the land, lack the ability to cope with such a problem, and such action could have a tendency to rob them of their just claim to professional excellence."†   (source)
  • Civilians in the first three streets north of here all attest to their haste.†   (source)
  • One of the reasons that the IAT has become so popular in recent years as a research tool is that the effects it is measuring are not subtle; as those of you who felt yourself slowing down on the second half of the Work/Family IAT above can attest, the IAT is the kind of tool that hits you over the head with its conclusions.†   (source)
  • The voting was absolutely free, as Aureliano himself was able to attest since he spent almost the entire day with his father-in-law seeing that no one voted more than once.†   (source)
  • We all may attest to their courage by the fact that they are here ....now ....on Arrakis.†   (source)
  • "She is a hardworking girl, I can attest to that," Mrs. Murphy says.†   (source)
  • But I can attest that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10 suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down.†   (source)
  • Muhammad sided with her—that's when he had the revelation about needing four witnesses to attest to adultery before punishment could be applied—and ordered that the accusers be flogged with forty lashes.†   (source)
  • Constantly they complained of aches and pains, and they carried walking sticks to attest to their handicaps.†   (source)
  • My brother Ithuriel can attest to that.†   (source)
  • Numbers of individual Americans were indeed severely beaten after surrendering, or, like Captain Jewett, run through with bayonets, as reliable accounts attest, but no mass atrocities were committed.†   (source)
  • As more than a few flame-scarred drug users could attest, chemistry is best left to chemists.†   (source)
  • Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contention.†   (source)
  • There were multiple parts involved: the transcript of Shay Bourne attesting that he wanted to donate his heart to the sister of his victim; an affidavit from Claire Nealon's cardiac surgeon, stating that she did indeed need a heart to survive.†   (source)
  • Can you attest that the hags abducted Dr. Rasmussen and tried to cook him?†   (source)
  • Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days.†   (source)
  • Each of us knew of his rise over years of hard work to the presidency, and each of us at some time wished that he had walked to the school or pushed a wheelbarrow or performed some other act of determination and sacrifice to attest his eagerness for knowledge.†   (source)
  • His thinning dark hair was singed and brushed to obscure the bald spots; his eyes were encased in small rolls of flesh, attesting to long hours with good wine.†   (source)
  • My former charges will attest to the fact that I rarely smile, never laugh, and can steal the joy from any room simply by entering and bestowing upon it my unique sense of utter gloom and despair.†   (source)
  • And besides which, I can attest that most of the journalists in attendance were very impressed with Mr. Baldwin's opening statement.†   (source)
  • If there was one clich...she could now attest to, it was that the open air increased the appetite.†   (source)
  • Deo muttered some imprecations; he was far from irreligious, but he'd acquired a lot of anticlerical feeling, in part because of all the well-attested stories of Rwandan priests aiding and abetting the genocide, and in some cases actually wielding machetes.†   (source)
  • The family's diplomas had always hung on the wall in the manner of a reproach to the world, because the diplomas had not automatically produced the material equivalents of their attested spiritual value.†   (source)
  • The architecture, paintings on the houses, and what remains of the ancestral temple all attest to the high quality of life that was once enjoyed by the people who lived there.†   (source)
  • As Lorenzo could attest, the rules applied to everyone.†   (source)
  • What's more,' he added with satisfaction, 'Angus tells me that knowing the neighbourhood so well he has got attested pedigrees for them.†   (source)
  • where visible—was almost completely covered with what may very loosely be called "hangings," meaning a collection of framed photographs, yellowing personal and Presidential correspondence, bronze and silver plaques, and a sprawling miscellany of vaguely citational-looking documents and trophy like objects of various shapes and sizes, all attesting, one way or another, to the redoubtable fact that from 1927 through most of 1943 the network radio program called "It's a Wise Child" had very rarely gone on the air without one (and, more often, two) of the seven Glass children among its panelists.†   (source)
  • I can never get used to the thousands of antique shops along the roads, all bulging with authentic and attested trash from an earlier time.†   (source)
  • Anyone who is acquainted with Jews will attest that, if anything, in the sexual area they are meek and inhibited, unaggressive, even pathologically repressed.†   (source)
  • He looked at the big stone, and into it, and a thousand blue and red lights attested to its worth and purity.†   (source)
  • His high fever attested to his illness
  • I attest this signature
  • It attested to a precision of purpose and the promise of adventure.†   (source)
  • All the Egyptian gods and monsters Carter and Sadie met are attested to in ancient sources.†   (source)
  • Reams of social science attest to the positive effect of a loving and stable home.†   (source)
  • I think their employer will attest to the fact that I'm a reasonably proficient marksman.†   (source)
  • Arya, for one, can attest to its effectiveness.†   (source)
  • She could attest first-hand that there was a powder keg inside him.†   (source)
  • I can attest to the accuracy of that, monsieur.†   (source)
  • He was a picture of health, as visitors and family members would attest.†   (source)
  • The young Rottenfuhrer's incredulity attested to that.†   (source)
  • Archery is definitely easier outside, as I can attest after that one time I tried target practice in my father's throne room.†   (source)
  • He loved to draw—though I could not attest to his skills, at least not then, because he never shared his artwork with me—and I would often catch him up in the study, by the window, or on the veranda, his brow furrowed in concentration, his charcoal pencil looping and circling over the sketch pad.†   (source)
  • But many mapmakers still include paper towns as copyright traps, as my bewildering experience in South Dakota attests.†   (source)
  • Various affidavits were presented attesting to how Ty and Pete, and later, Jess, and Rose and myself had conducted business on the farm over the summer.†   (source)
  • A while later, faced with a new attempt by the workers the lawyers publicly exhibited Mr. Brown's death certificate, attested to by consuls and foreign ministers which bore witness that on June ninth last he had been run over by a fire engine in Chicago.†   (source)
  • Those could have been my first words of our new era, attesting to how strange and far from home I felt taking meat from my refrigerator and salting it with my old red plastic saltshaker and slapping it onto the broiler pan I'd used for seventeen years.†   (source)
  • "They" did not stint where protection was involved-the guards down the hall from his office and on the roof of the building, to say nothing of a temporary receptionist bearing arms as well as a strange computer, attested to their concern.†   (source)
  • And all the girls attest to it.†   (source)
  • Lady Margaery had sworn solemn oaths attesting to her maidenhood, to Her Grace the queen and her late father.†   (source)
  • John Adams was also, as many could attest, a great-hearted, persevering man of uncommon ability and force.†   (source)
  • He seemed to feel the slight burn, the sting against the skin that Jace felt, though Jace had never minded the pain—the map of white scars that covered his biceps and ran down to his forearm attested to that.†   (source)
  • I can attest to that.†   (source)
  • But the British rightfully considered them a windfall, as both Mackenzie's diary and that kept by Ambrose Serle attest.†   (source)
  • Everywhere the multitude of small balconies attested to the demands of cleanliness, as no one ever appeared on them except to hang continuous lines of laundry.†   (source)
  • He had been known to make that climb five or six times a day on the queen's business, as the aches in his knees and the small of his back could attest.†   (source)
  • My client has informed me that this young man cannot be a clone of Max McDaniels, because he can attest that the McDaniels clones are all accounted for.†   (source)
  • The brown sedan sped down the country road, racing past overgrown fields, the driver maniacally gripping the wheel and sporadically glancing at his bound prisoner, a young man who kept straining at his wire-bound hands and feet, his rope-strapped face causing him enormous pain, attested to by his constant grimace and his bulging frightened eyes.†   (source)
  • Under normal conditions the width of the river at McKonkey's Ferry was about eight hundred feet, but with the water as high as it was that night, the distance was greater by fifty feet or more, and the current strong, the ice formidable, as all accounts attest.†   (source)
  • Untrained in diplomacy and by temperament seemingly so unsuited for it, he had indeed succeeded brilliantly, as others and history would attest.†   (source)
  • But at Hancock's Beacon Hill mansion all was in order, as General Sullivan also attested, and there was a certain irony in this, since the house had been occupied and maintained by the belligerent General James Grant, who had wanted to lay waste to every town on the New England coast.†   (source)
  • Lee was followed by Ralph Izard, who said he could attest from personal observation of such occasions at Parliament that members of the House of Commons stood because in the I louse of Lords there were no seats for them.†   (source)
  • Having attended several of the President's levees, Abigail could attest that the "court" of the Washingtons was as crowded, the company as brilliantly dressed as at St. James's, with the difference that here she thoroughly enjoyed herself.†   (source)
  • Other photographs plastered everywhere attested to Blackstock's familiarity with the demigods and goddesses of pop culture, in one after another frantically gemitlich display of palship: Blackstock with a popeyed Eddie Cantor, Blackstock with Grover Whalen, with Sherman Billingsley and Sylvia at the Stork Club, with Major Bowes, with Walter Winchell, even Blackstock with the Andrews Sisters, the three songbirds with their plentiful hair closely surrounding his face like large grinning bouquets, the doctor poutingly proud above the inked scrawl: Love to Hymie from Patty, Maxine and LaVerne.†   (source)
  • She would have been questioned-attested, perhaps.†   (source)
  • 4 Herndon, however, attested that he heard Lincoln refer to having seen slaves on sale.†   (source)
  • Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold.†   (source)
  • O'Reilly had sent to New Orleans for an attested copy of the marriage record of the Olivares couple, and the birth certificate of Señorita Inez.†   (source)
  • Before his death at the age of one hundred and eleven, the phoenix and the unicorn appeared in the gardens of the Empire, in attestation to the perfection of his reign.†   (source)
  • But do these buttons that we wear attest that our allegiance is to Nature?†   (source)
  • The almost instant turning of Lassiter's horse attested to the quickness of that rider's eye.†   (source)
  • He had been shot many times, as was attested to by bullet holes in his torn and limp limbs.†   (source)
  • Yet the vacant doorway, the silence—something attested to the knowledge of Carley's presence.†   (source)
  • The efforts of several succeeding cowboys attested to the extreme difficulty of making a good drive.†   (source)
  • Another muttering among the men attested to the good sense and good will of Kells's suggestion.†   (source)
  • At least Stanton's red face and forceful gestures attested to heat on his part.†   (source)
  • Slow, regular breathing attested to the deep slumbers of her tent comrades.†   (source)
  • Georgia William Few Abr. Baldwin Attest.†   (source)
  • The dignity of our calling the very heavens attest.†   (source)
  • But what you can do is to tell me I am right— to give me an attestation, as it were.†   (source)
  • Oh, yes; and they may have the fact attested whenever they please.†   (source)
  • In the attesting place at the end thou wilt find, when thou comest to it, the name—Ilderim, Sheik.†   (source)
  • The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse.†   (source)
  • "Good works good pay, so to speak it," attested Joseph Poorgrass.†   (source)
  • Do you wish these proofs, these attestations, which I alone possess, to be destroyed?†   (source)
  • "Ye be a very old aged person, malter," attested Jan Coggan, also soothingly.†   (source)
  • The awe which these reflections inspired was attested by the impressive silence and the ranks of staring eyes.†   (source)
  • Rustlings and slow footsteps, and then heavy thuds attested to the probability that Jim was knocking the end of a log upon the ground to split off a corner whereby a handful of dry splinters could be procured.†   (source)
  • When Mrs. Erdstrom had followed the doctor out of the room Carol glanced in a friendly way at the grained pine cupboard, the framed Lutheran Konfirmations Attest, the traces of fried eggs and sausages on the dining table against the wall, and a jewel among calendars, presenting not only a lithographic young woman with cherry lips, and a Swedish advertisement of Axel Egge's grocery, but also a thermometer and a match-holder.†   (source)
  • He was a mason; the levee that buffeted back the rage of the Colorado in flood, the wall that turned the creek, the irrigation tunnel, the zigzag trail cut on the face of the cliff—all these attested his eye for line, his judgment of distance, his strength in toil.†   (source)
  • The sailors must have learned whatever project was on hand, and the vim and snap they put into their work attested their enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • She lingered in her bed long after the crackling of the camp fire and the metallic clinking of Dutch oven and skillet attested to the task of breakfast.†   (source)
  • Shots and yells behind him attested to the fact that his pursuers likewise had seen these new-comers on the scene.†   (source)
  • And as Mason read them, all most movingly, the moist eyes and the handkerchiefs and the coughs in the audience and among the jurors attested their import: You said I was not to worry or think so much about how I feel, and have a good time.†   (source)
  • Several dusty, tired horses stood with drooping heads and bridles down, their wet flanks attesting to travel just ended.†   (source)
  • Beyond the sawmill extended the open country sloping somewhat roughly, and evidently once a forest, but now a hideous bare slash, with ghastly burned stems of trees still standing, and myriads of stumps attesting to denudation.†   (source)
  • The crashing of wild animals into the chaparral, and the scarcely frightened flight of rabbits and grouse attested to the wildness of the place.†   (source)
  • I can't express what followed it save by saying that the silence itself—which was indeed in a manner an attestation of my strength—became the element into which I saw the figure disappear; in which I definitely saw it turn as I might have seen the low wretch to which it had once belonged turn on receipt of an order, and pass, with my eyes on the villainous back that no hunch could have more disfigured, straight down the staircase and into the darkness in which the next bend was lost.†   (source)
  • And the arrival of a heavily laden pack-train, under the guidance of Withers, attested to the fact that the Mormons meant not only to continue to live in the valley, but also to build and plant and enlarge.†   (source)
  • Only the gentian and stubby meadow crocus were still in bloom, and they attested to a freshness hidden within the superficially heated air, a chill that could suddenly go straight to the bone as you lay there singed by the sun, like an icy shiver in the midst of fever.†   (source)
  • The above, appearing in a publication now long ago superannuated and forgotten, is all that hitherto has stood in human record to attest what manner of men respectively were John Claggart and Billy Budd.†   (source)
  • Probably she divined that he did not want to talk, for the fleeting glance she gave him attested to a thought that his voice or demeanor had changed.†   (source)
  • A fire, the size of which attested the desert Indian's love of warmth, blazed in the middle of the hogan, and sent part of its smoke upward through a round hole in the roof.†   (source)
  • The garment itself did not bear out the assertion, nor did the accumulations of grease on stove and pot and pan attest a general cleanliness.†   (source)
  • A physician has attested to the case of a twelve-year-old girl who fell asleep one day, and remained asleep for thirteen years—during that time, however, she did not remain a twelve-year-old girl, but grew into an adult female.†   (source)
  • Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.†   (source)
  • The horses scarcely moved from their tracks, and their erect, alert heads attested to their sensitiveness to the peculiarities of the night.†   (source)
  • Then his mysterious winks and glances, the sympathy she felt in him, all attested to some kind of a change.†   (source)
  • When I had dressed and opened the door, I heard the waves still lapping on the beach, garrulously attesting the fury of the night.†   (source)
  • Pilchuck rode in after sunset, a dust-covered, powder-begrimed figure, ragged, worn, proven, everything about him attesting to the excessive endeavor that made him a great hunter.†   (source)
  • Footsteps crunching on gravel attested to this, and quicker steps, coming with deep tones of men in anger, told of a quarrel.†   (source)
  • These men, and others who spoke or signified their refusal, attested to the living truth that there was honor even among robbers.†   (source)
  • The fact that Hudnall and his men left off work, and Pilchuck insisted on being the arbiter of these selections, attested to the prime importance with which they regarded the matter.†   (source)
  • Kells laughed mockingly, yet the savage action with which he threw his cup against the wall attested to the fact that Joan had strange power to hurt him.†   (source)
  • An absence of spoken praise, a gradually deepening silence, attested to the impression on the visitors of that noble sunset.†   (source)
  • "True, Henery, you do, I've heard ye," said Joseph Poorgrass in a voice of thorough attestation, and with a wire-drawn smile of misery.†   (source)
  • This singular attestation of Madame de Cintre's delicacy, for all its singularity, set Newman's wound aching afresh.†   (source)
  • The shield and quiver at its entrance were richer than common, and the high distinction of a fusee, attested the importance of its proprietor.†   (source)
  • It is never an attestation of a value, or even of our imperfect sense of one, it is never a tribute to any truth at all, that we shall represent that value badly.†   (source)
  • Here, in a corner my indentures were duly signed and attested, and I was "bound"; Mr. Pumblechook holding me all the while as if we had looked in on our way to the scaffold, to have those little preliminaries disposed of.†   (source)
  • Here, an I O U for a hundred and fifteen roubles, legally attested, and due for payment, has been brought us for recovery, given by you to the widow of the assessor Zarnitsyn, nine months ago, and paid over by the widow Zarnitsyn to one Mr. Tchebarov.†   (source)
  • I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.†   (source)
  • He called to mind a long succession of loving passages between his father and himself, and dwelt fondly upon them, his unstinted tears attesting how deep and real was the grief that possessed his heart.†   (source)
  • My uncle would have met it with his inevitable Saknussemm, a precedent which possessed no weight with me; for even if the journey of the learned Icelander were really attested, there was one very simple answer, that in the sixteenth century there was neither barometer or aneroid and therefore Saknussemm could not tell how far he had gone.†   (source)
  • "And will Cora attest the truth of this?" cried Duncan, suffering the cloud to be chased from his countenance by a smile of open pleasure.†   (source)
  • Upon this principle the introduction of the influence of the States into the mechanism of the Federal Government was by no means to be wondered at, since it only attested the existence of an acknowledged power, which was to be humored and not forcibly checked.†   (source)
  • "Twenty witnesses," added he, "could attest the fact"; and he named several distinguished gentlemen, and among them was M. le Duc de la Tremouille.†   (source)
  • 'I will not say, that since I entered into the engagement I have not had some happy moments; but I can say, that I have never known the blessing of one tranquil hour:'—and the quivering lip, Emma, which uttered it, was an attestation that I felt at my heart.†   (source)
  • These fathers, otherwise so apostolic, lacked Heaven's last and rarest attestation of their office, the Tongue of Flame.†   (source)
  • Lord Warburton, however, now that he was face to face with her, was plainly quite sure of his own sense of the matter; though his grey eyes had still their fine original property of keeping recognition and attestation strictly sincere.†   (source)
  • I can attest your fidelity, sir.†   (source)
  • A loud shout from the spectators, waving of scarfs and handkerchiefs, and general acclamations, attested the interest taken by the spectators in this encounter; the most equal, as well as the best performed, which had graced the day.†   (source)
  • 'Remain quietly here, until such a document is drawn up, and proceed with me to such a place as I may deem most advisable, for the purpose of attesting it?'†   (source)
  • The signatures to this instrument purporting to be executed by Mr. W. and attested by Wilkins Micawber, are forgeries by — HEEP.†   (source)
  • These facts are attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand men.†   (source)
  • But numerous fires had been kindled on the beach, attesting that the natives had no thoughts of leaving it.†   (source)
  • In those days the world was agitated about the wondrous doings of Mr. St. John Long, "noblemen and gentlemen" attesting his extraction of a fluid like mercury from the temples of a patient.†   (source)
  • Among the jars and bottles, rolling upon the stony floor, regardless of the crowd and cold, often in danger but never hurt, play half a dozen half-naked children, their brown bodies, jetty eyes, and thick black hair attesting the blood of Israel.†   (source)
  • A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.†   (source)
  • The peasant, furious, raised his hand and spat on the ground beside him as if to attest his good faith, repeating: "For all that, it is God's truth, M'sieu le Maire.†   (source)
  • First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Micawber will attest it.†   (source)
  • The Sunday evening was spent in repeating, by heart, the Church Catechism, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew; and in listening to a long sermon, read by Miss Miller, whose irrepressible yawns attested her weariness.†   (source)
  • It is duly executed and attested.†   (source)
  • See Appendix, E.] These errors are no doubt discreditable to human reason; they attest the inferiority of our nature, which is incapable of laying firm hold upon what is true and just, and is often reduced to the alternative of two excesses.†   (source)
  • His rigid body, clenched fists, and head drawn between his shoulders, all attested to a fierce hate breathing from every pore.†   (source)
  • It went, however, but a certain way, and other lights, contending, conflicting lights, and of as many different colours, if possible, as the rockets, the Roman candles and Catherine-wheels of a "pyrotechnic display," would be employable to attest that she was.†   (source)
  • Before God and before men, I accuse this woman of having urged me to the murder of the Baron de Wardes; but as no one else can attest the truth of this accusation, I attest it myself.†   (source)
  • But you see she isn't known yet, and she's in such very good form"—And Lord Deepmere's conclusion was lost in the attesting glance which he again directed toward the young lady.†   (source)
  • I dressed myself as quickly as possible; my slow and stiff motions all attested that the effects of the narcotic were not yet entirely dissipated.†   (source)
  • Gathering my mantle about me, and sheltering my hands in my muff, I did not feel the cold, though it froze keenly; as was attested by a sheet of ice covering the causeway, where a little brooklet, now congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since.†   (source)
  • I never attested any such document.†   (source)
  • Nature and circumstances concurred to make the inhabitants of the United States bold men, as is sufficiently attested by the enterprising spirit with which they seek for fortune.†   (source)
  • There, in the centre of the earth, where the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmapootra rise to run their different courses; where mankind took up their first abode, and separated to replete the world, leaving Balk, the mother of cities, to attest the great fact; where Nature, gone back to its primeval condition, and secure in its immensities, invites the sage and the exile, with promise of safety to the one and solitude to the other—there I went to abide alone with God, praying, fasting, waiting for death.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the mild, expansive brevity with which it was uttered, and a certain look, at once appealing and inscrutable, that issued from Newman's half-closed eyes as he leaned his head against the back of his chair, seemed to her the most eloquent attestation of a mature sentiment that she had ever encountered.†   (source)
  • Not a hundred years ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, and fared as best it might.†   (source)
  • Albert opened the paper, it was an attestation of four notable inhabitants of Yanina, proving that Colonel Fernand Mondego, in the service of Ali Tepelini, had surrendered the castle for two million crowns.†   (source)
  • Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.†   (source)
  • It was the grace the good man had said simultaneously with his brethren Gaspar the Greek and Melchior the Hindoo, the utterance in diverse tongues out of which had come the miracle attesting the Divine Presence at the meal in the desert years before.†   (source)
  • Wrapped in this sweet idea, d'Artagnan waited half an hour without the least impatience, his eyes fixed upon that charming little abode of which he could perceive a part of the ceiling with its gilded moldings, attesting the elegance of the rest of the apartment.†   (source)
  • Upon the shores of the lake no object attested the presence of man except a column of smoke which might be seen on the horizon rising from the tops of the trees to the clouds, and seeming to hang from heaven rather than to be mounting to the sky.†   (source)
  • At the same time, drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation."†   (source)
  • I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain.†   (source)
  • " When Franz had finished reading this account, so dreadful for a son; when Valentine, pale with emotion, had wiped away a tear; when Villefort, trembling, and crouched in a corner, had endeavored to lessen the storm by supplicating glances at the implacable old man,—"Sir," said d'Epinay to Noirtier, "since you are well acquainted with all these details, which are attested by honorable signatures,—since you appear to take some interest in me, although you have only manifested it hitherto by causing me sorrow, refuse me not one final satisfaction—tell me the name of the president of the club, that I may at least know who killed my father."†   (source)
  • "A written examination attests it," said the cardinal, replying aloud to the mute interrogation of his Majesty; "and the ill-treated people have drawn up the following, which I have the honor to present to your Majesty."†   (source)
  • Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting to have our misery relieved.†   (source)
  • The lawyer did not deny that that character appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in Jean Mathieu; all that was true,— in short, four witnesses recognize Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that he was the thief of the apples?†   (source)
  • Goodwill supplying the place of experience, his character needed no attestation.†   (source)
  • Attest William Jackson Secretary done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independance of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,†   (source)
  • The Greeks themselves had already canonized The Iliad by the fifth century B.C. (when the title "Iliad" is first attested).†   (source)
  • Place one hand on earth, grassland of herds, and dip your other hand in dazzling sea: all gods with Kronos in the abyss, attest that I shall marry one of the younger Graces, Pasithea, the one I have desired all my living days.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Homeric epic attests to a sudden rise in cultural ambition that is so rapid and widespread that the eighth century is sometimes called the Greek Renaissance.†   (source)
  • for the last,
    (Forth from my tent emerging for good, loosing, untying the tent-ropes,)
    In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits
    and vistas again to peace restored,
    To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the
    South and the North,
    To the leaven'd soil of the general Western world to attest my songs,
    To the Alleghanian hills and the tireless Mississippi,
    To the rocks I calling sing, and all the trees in the woods,
    To the plains of the poems of heroes, to the prairies spreading wide,
    To the far-off sea and the unseen winds, and the sane impalpable air;
    And responding they answer all, (but not in words,)
    The average earth†   (source)
  • I am he attesting sympathy,
    (Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that
    supports them?)†   (source)
  • Thee, Xanthus, and thee, Simois, I attest.†   (source)
  • A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands, Attested by the holy close of lips, Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings; And all the ceremony of this compact Sealed in my function, by my testimony: Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave, I have travelled but two hours.†   (source)
  • Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve
    First thy obedience; the other who can know,
    Not seeing thee attempted, who attest?†   (source)
  • But there are other facts not of such consequence nor so necessary, which, though ever so well attested, may nevertheless be sacrificed to oblivion in complacence to the scepticism of a reader.†   (source)
  • In this terrible agitation of mind, I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world; where I was able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand, and perform those other actions, which will be recorded for ever in the chronicles of that empire, while posterity shall hardly believe them, although attested by millions.†   (source)
  • And now he made deep protestations of a sincere inviolable affection for me, but all along attested it to be with the utmost reserve for my virtue and his own.†   (source)
  • For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.†   (source)
  • From Jove he came commission'd, heav'nly bright With radiant beams, and manifest to sight (The sender and the sent I both attest) These walls he enter'd, and those words express'd.†   (source)
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