put to the proof
Example Sentences
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These statements of intent will shortly be put to the proof.
From Forbes • Oct. 15, 2013
The lesson was quickly learned and put to the proof by our forces on the western front.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
Vanished on the instant you are put to the proof.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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 Beyerlein, Franz
And I doubt not, my dearest madam, that these generous feelings will be put to the proof, for ...
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
