put to the proof
Example Sentences
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These statements of intent will shortly be put to the proof.
From Forbes • Oct. 15, 2013
I dare not ask you for confidences you hesitate to give, fair lady, for I am deeply conscious my worthiness to receive them has not been put to the proof.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
But she immediately recovered her impassibility of features—that wonderful calmness and innocent expression which afterwards was so severely put to the proof without 155 being shaken—and she asked, with apparent unconcern:
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell
And I doubt not, my dearest madam, that these generous feelings will be put to the proof, for ...
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
His courage had been put to the proof in more than a score of battles.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey
