put to the proof

These statements of intent will shortly be put to the proof.

Well, well, Sir Roger, your offers shall soon be put to the proof.

Whether she could ever under the most favorable conditions prove an Anne of Austria may well be doubted; and we must all hope for her own sake that she may never be put to the proof.

His courage was not to be put to the proof.

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.