universal testimony

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I think that these were exceptional victims of cruelty, for the almost universal testimony of our soldiers was that the surgeons were their best friends at the South.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

The universal testimony of the great, that fame itself is barren, is thrust aside as of small moment.

From The Spinster Book by Reed, Myrtle

They did not rise up in judgment against me, but there appeared one universal testimony against all the good I had done, and all the sentiments of evil I had entertained.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

It is the universal testimony of the press and people that, during the weary weeks which intervened between the President's injury and death, Mr. Blaine's every action and constant demeanor were absolutely faultless.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various

Such, according to the universal testimony of those who knew him, and according to portraits painted from life and preserved in his family, was the John Rolph of fifty to sixty years ago.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles