universal testimony

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And such in fact was the universal testimony of the managers throughout Antigua.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

I will leave to the doctors the description of its effect on nerve and brain, and to common observation the universal testimony to the peculiar blurring of judgment which stimulant of any kind usually produces.

From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah

The almost universal testimony was, "They usually want the best and pay for it, and the most fastidious are those who can least afford it."

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various

As a writer, speaker, editor, poet, reformer, friend and associate, it was the universal testimony of those who knew him best and esteemed him most truly, that he stood in the forefront of his generation.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

Skarlie was a person who was less transparent; according to universal testimony he had settled in this town merely to study the prevailing conditions and utilize them for his own benefit—"without competition and without control."

From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne