universal testimony

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It is the universal testimony of our fishermen that two are never seen swimming close together.

From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane

And such in fact was the universal testimony of the managers throughout Antigua.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

The almost universal testimony was, "They usually want the best and pay for it, and the most fastidious are those who can least afford it."

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various

In favor of the doctrine of Liberty, I next appeal to the direct, deliberate, and universal testimony of consciousness.

From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa

As a writer, speaker, editor, poet, reformer, friend and associate, it was the universal testimony of those who knew him best and esteemed him most truly, that he stood in the forefront of his generation.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)