put to the proof
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These statements of intent will shortly be put to the proof.
From Forbes ● Oct. 15, 2013
When was your voice heard in the Forum? when has your counsel been put to the proof? when did you do any service either in peace or war?
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
Since the great war they had never seriously been put to the proof; and during the three last decades they had only been altered in the most trifling details.
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
The courage of the people had to be put to the proof, to see whether they were worthy of the heritage of freedom that had been earned by the blood of the fathers.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd
She did not want her dinner, and begged to see the pocket-book; begged it once—twice—and was about to beg it a third time, when I ventured to put to the proof her power of self-denial.
From Household Education by Harriet Martineau
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