universal testimony
Example Sentences
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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
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
And such in fact was the universal testimony of the managers throughout Antigua.
From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
A careful examination of the relics discovered at the sites of the old camping 11 grounds suffices to confirm the universal testimony of early writers regarding the nomadic habits of the Indians.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)
It is the almost universal testimony that Scully’s rule in that county has reduced 250 tenants and their families to a condition approaching serfdom.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
