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Example sentences for "prove that"

  • She would only have to extend her hand to prove that he was telling a falsehood.

  • But he attempted to prove that he was no fool by reading and rereading the contract before he would consent to append his name to it.

  • And as if to prove that he had divined even the details of the scheme devised by his young friend, he added: "Besides, every one knows that a millionaire's business agent is anything but a pleasant person to deal with.

  • It is, in fact, easy matter to prove that, so far as structure is concerned, man differs to no greater extent from the animals which are immediately below him than these do from other members of the same order.

  • He often told his tale to sympathetic ears, and would point to the old mill to prove that it was true.

  • It's impossible for me to prove that I was there all the time.

  • I'm not an expert, but you ought to prove that ground to the East more thoroughly.

  • When day after day and night after night you've thought of nothing but how to keep them both, you might a little want to prove that it was possible, mightn't you?

  • Can he prove that we are at age, or that our several parts of the heavenly house are already delivered into our own power?

  • But he renewed his entreaties, and his wife pressing me in the most engaging manner I told them, in order to prove that I was not trying to elude their invitation, that I was expected to sup at Silvia's house.

  • No doubt to prove that a wit as well as a fool has his weak points; in all probability the duke knows nothing about it.

  • I warned the post-master that no one should leave the place before me, and that if he opposed my will there would be a sanguinary contest; in order to prove that I was in earnest I took out my pistols.

  • The fool said he wished to see me again to prove that he would return everything gladly.

  • At the sight of this, she pours out every insulting word she can think of; I endeavour to prove that she is to blame, but it is all in vain.

  • It is quite clear, from the nature of the reasoning which is here used to prove that it is more improving to work with others than to work alone, that the studies of pupils only are under consideration here.

  • Is not this sufficient to prove that it was only in quite exceptional cases that the writer intended the consecutive pages to remain connected, when he should, at last, carry out the often planned arrangement of his writings?

  • There is nothing to prove that La Sahla returned to France the second time with the same intentions as before.

  • I immediately communicated the business to the First Consul, who ordered me to supply Harrel with money; but not to mention the affair to Fouche, to whom he wished to prove that he knew better how to manage the police than he did.

  • The burden of the discourse is to prove that this is so; that religion is compatible with the business of Common Life.

  • In the Middle Ages the clergy spoke of nothing but a future state; they hardly cared to prove that a sincere Christian may be a happy man here below.

  • This would be enough to prove that at such periods no new religion could be established, and that all schemes for such a purpose would be not only impious but absurd and irrational.

  • They therefore do not deny that every man may follow his own interest; but they endeavor to prove that it is the interest of every man to be virtuous.

  • The variation may on the contrary be due to the addition of some new element, but to prove that it is so is by no means an easy matter.

  • If the voters of New York were influenced at all by the "so-called pickets," could even President Wilson himself satisfactorily prove that it had been an adverse influence?

  • How simple he had apparently thought it would be, to prove that I had an obsession on the subject of President Wilson!

  • Also it would be difficult to prove that the "small fraction" had not shown political wisdom in injecting into the campaign the embarrassment of a controversy which was followed by the above statement of *the President.

  • You may rely upon us to prove that," said I.


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