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 like at any rate to think of our easy overstrainings—the possible flaw in many of which was not indeed to be put to the proof.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry
When was your voice heard in the Forum? when has your counsel been put to the proof? when did you do any service either in peace or war?
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
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
No such question was asked, and his fortitude was not put to the proof, nor does it seem that after this Moore dabbled in rebellion.
From Thomas Moore by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
