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

It passed from the impossibles to the possibles—a possible under strict and distrustful observation, but a possible that should be put to the proof.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

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

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