universal testimony

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Skarlie was a person who was less transparent; according to universal testimony he had settled in this town merely to study the prevailing conditions and utilize them for his own benefit—"without competition and without control."

From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

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

Results of this Unnatural Crime.—It is the universal testimony of physicians that the effects of abortion are almost as deadly upon the mother as upon the child.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

It is the almost universal testimony that Scully’s rule in that county has reduced 250 tenants and their families to a condition approaching serfdom.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

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