All 12 Uses of
testify
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- And Ella Mae was not so beautiful now as she was when she was singing and testifying, but looked like a sullen, ordinary girl.†
Chpt 1.1 *testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- It was like all this, and it was like the walls that witnessed and the placards on the walls which testified that the wages of sin was death.†
Chpt 1.1testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Every now and again one of them came home to testify of the wonders the Lord had worked through him, or her.†
Chpt 1.1testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- She was younger than Sister McCandless by several years, a single woman who had never, as she testified, known a man.†
Chpt 1.1testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- But they came like many trumpets; even if they had come to hear and not to testify it was not they who could forgive her, but only God.†
Chpt 2.1testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- And, thinking of tomorrow, when the church would rise up, singing, under the booming Sunday light, he thought of the light for which they tarried, which, in an instant, filled the soul, causing (throughout those iron-dark, unimaginable ages before John had come into the world) the newborn in Christ to testify: Once I was blind and now I see.†
Chpt 2.1
- he wanted to know himself to be the Lord's anointed, His well-beloved, and worthy, nearly, of that snow-white dove which had been sent down from Heaven to testify that Jesus was the Son of God.†
Chpt 2.2
- "Then," he testified, "I heard my mother singing.†
Chpt 2.2testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- How many could testify, as Isaiah testified, "Mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts"?†
Chpt 2.2testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- How many could testify, as Isaiah testified, "Mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts"?†
Chpt 2.2testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- But, near the end of the dinner, when the women brought up the pies, and coffee, and cream, and when the talk around the table had become more jolly and more good-naturedly loose than ever, the door had but barely closed behind the women when one of the elders, a heavy, cheery, sandy-haired man, whose face, testifying no doubt to the violence of his beginnings, was splashed with freckles like dried blood, laughed and said, referring to Deborah, that there was a holy woman, all right!†
Chpt 2.2testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- It came to him that he must testify: his tongue only could bear witness to the wonders he had seen.†
Chpt 3.1testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
Definition:
provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law