universal testimony
Example Sentences
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In the face of such arguments, based, as they obviously were, on universal testimony, even the faith of the person most nearly concerned and wholly responsible must, it was judged, eventually give way.
From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Gambier-Parry, Ernest
The universal testimony of the great, that fame itself is barren, is thrust aside as of small moment.
From The Spinster Book by Reed, Myrtle
How often we should have been disappointed and dissatisfied with such books, and have thrown them aside impatiently, had we not remembered the great universal testimony to their surpassing excellence!
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
By the universal testimony of his friends, Robert Emmet was a youth of modest character, pure motives and winning personality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
It is the universal testimony of our fishermen that two are never seen swimming close together.
From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane
