ring true

I will read you one of the best of them and then tell you why it does not seem to me to ring true.

"I shall die if I do," Margaret Elizabeth declared; but somehow the assertion failed to ring true.

They are new and keen, and they ring true when you strike them.

The old-fashioned sea-yarns of Captain Marryat ring true as far as they go, but they do not go far enough.

The woman before her was shabby enough to be a beggar, but her plea did not ring true.

There was a note in her voice which did not ring true—a good-naturedly mocking note, which accorded ill with the words themselves.

I tell you, it is a talent by itself to pay compliments gracefully and have them ring true.

Only a few of them ring true at every point, Yuba Bill the stage driver is one.

He had to admit to himself that such a theory did not ring true.

"Oh, I don't know," and Alice tried to laugh, but it did not ring true.