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Sentences starting with prove

Prove it, will you--that's all. [12]
Prove it," answered the young man, pale and startled, but cool in speech and action. [11]
Prove the guilt of him who perverted the army and sought to destroy thee. [11]
Prove yourself worthy, and all may be well--but prove yourself you shall. [11]
Prove me wrong. [11]
Prove it. [12]

Sentences ending with prove

What should it prove? [5]
That's in the power of a doctor to prove. [11]
The legend that one of the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills came here to play, with invisible hands, the music of the first years of the world, became a truth, though a truth that none could prove. [11]
What is it meant to prove? [2]
We were all lazy and satisfied, now, as the meager entries in my note-book (that sure index, to me, of my condition), prove. [5]
It was no great discovery that we see many things as truths which we cannot prove. [6]
But this law gets little or no attention in the Deerslayer tale, as Natty Bumppo's case will amply prove. [5]
He shrank instinctively from the humdrum, and sought the heights, stormy though these might prove. [9]
What does this duel prove? [2]
After all, what could they prove? [9]

Short sentences using prove

I'll prove it to you. [5]
The election returns prove this. [7]
How does it prove it? [5]
I'm going to prove it. [5]
An' I'll soon prove it. [13]
Doesn't that prove it? [9]
Who can prove it? [10]
Shall I prove it? [10]
I can prove it. [10]

Sentences containing prove two or more times

Mr. Carvel thought you dead, and we cannot prove undue influence by Grafton unless we also prove that it was he who caused your abduction. [9]
I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic--for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it. [5]
To prove that Tell did shoot the apple from his son's head would merely prove that he had better nerve than most men and was skillful with a bow as a million others who preceded and followed him, but not one whit more so. [5]
She certainly looks innocent enough; but what does a blush prove, and what does its absence prove, on one of these innocent faces? [6]
To prove that, he must at once prove himself--who he was, whence he came. [11]
Such men, when elected, may prove true; but such votes are given them in the expectation that they will prove false. [7]
That hearing would either prove he was the rightful earl--in which case our course would be plain--or it would prove that he wasn't--in which case our course would be equally plain. [5]

More example sentences with the word prove in them

Well, see: if your sword and stomach prove the stronger, you shall go your ways to where you will. [11]
I believe in you, and here's my life to prove it. [13]
I say that you took your hat off your head, and you prove me a liar by putting it on your head. [7]
You'll prove that you threw a stone, or it shall go hard with you. [5]
Early tomorrow, before you proceed to business, they will be replaced by a stronger division, so that they may not prove a reinforcement to your brother's troops here if things come to fighting. [10]
I am sorry you disbelieve it, Madam,--I said, and added softly to my next neighbor,--but you prove it. [6]
Do you think you can prove that? [9]
I assert that you [pointing to an individual] are here to-day, and you undertake to prove me a liar by showing that you were in Mattoon yesterday. [7]
The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
One of his wounds was considered quite dangerous, and it was thought by many that it would prove fatal. [5]
The first match would prove to be wet. [4]
Finally, if I would lend him $500 a year for two years, (this was 4 or 5 years ago,) he knew he could make a success as a lawyer, and would prove it. [5]
May be prove worthy of his name and his parentage! [6]
But happily the world does not believe this, and indeed would be very unhappy if it could not try and prove all the possibilities of human nature, to suffer as well as to enjoy. [4]
This is a wonderfully interesting supposition of yours, and may prove to be strictly in accordance with the facts. [6]
That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also. [2]
I do not wish to question unduly the intellects of those members of this House who by their votes will prove that they have been convinced by the gentleman's argument. [9]
The nuggets of wisdom that are dug out of the Oriental and remote literatures would often prove to be only commonplace if stripped of their quaint setting. [4]
I suppose he will prove a superfluity, but I have got him on my hands, and I mean that he shall be as little in the way as possible. [6]
We can understand why a classification founded on any single character or organ--even an organ so wonderfully complex and important as the brain--or on the high development of the mental faculties, is almost sure to prove unsatisfactory. [1]
He guessed for whom were these lamentations, and prompted by the wish to prove the falsity of the accusation that charged him with having entered the house as a spy, he spoke to the widow. [10]
He saw the whole danger, and drew up his powerful form as if to prove whether it were an equal match for such a foe. [10]
She it was who had a secret passion for Prince Charles, and these letters to Sir John, who had been with the Pretender at Versailles, must prove her ruin if produced. [11]
Besides the sun, which when the battle began had just risen, was already sinking to rest and should it prove necessary to force an entrance into the oasis it was not advisable to fight in darkness. [10]
It matters little whether the needle prick him by accident or blunder or design, he will burst all bounds, and establish again the old truth that each of us will prove himself a fool given perfect opportunity. [11]
By and by, when the youth I love is my husband, I will prove my gratitude; for he is as rich as he is handsome and kind, and will, I know, refuse me nothing. [10]
I care not what you say of me--say your worst, and I will not resent it, for I will still prove that your way lies with me. [11]
A series of what are called facts is brought forward to prove some very improbable doctrine. [3]
Added to this were methods learned abroad, which might prove useful now. [11]
The municipal geese were gone, but it was impossible to prove that this particular fox had used his enlightened reason in their procurement. [9]
It is time we were up and dressed to prove it. [4]
We are who we say we are; and in a day or two, when I get the baggage, I can prove it. [5]
What these were we need not stop to mention,--only remarking that there were dresses of various patterns, which might afford an agreeable series of changes, and in certain contingencies prove eminently useful. [6]
Before all things we must prove ourselves equal to those in Thebes over there, and win the people over to our side. [10]
He said that was true enough, but they would hang to it until it did prove rich. [5]
The question now was to which the goddess would prove most faithful. [10]
Also Crozier's evidence was expected to be sensational, and to prove the swivel on which the fate of the accused man would hang. [11]
Her very look was enough to ensure the respect of any vagabond who might cross her path, and if matters came to the worst she would prove as dangerous as a panther. [6]
How hard it was at this distance of time to tell the world the tale, and to be forced to prove it by Philip's letters. [11]
He thought she was anxious, as on a former occasion, lest his election to the office of Eletto might prove his ruin, so he drew her towards him, exclaiming "Have no fear, Bonita. [10]
En besides, dey warn't no 'casion to prove it. [5]
To this the voice of the priests directed him and the cries of the sacred animals were believed to prove a divinity at hand. [10]
If we left Utah I could prove--I reckon I could prove this thing you call love. [13]
The Scripture teaches us to prove before we retain. [10]
She gave herself up for lost; but whatever fate might have in store for her, life lay open before him; he would have time to prove his splendid powers, and that he would do so, as she would have him do it, she felt certain. [10]
You understand, the University decided emphatically that it was fiends who spoke in those Voices; it would need to prove that, and it did. [5]
It was an unhappy outcome of an enterprise which in itself was to prove of little profit. [5]
Now, if you undertake to disprove that proposition, and to show that it is erroneous, would you prove it to be false by calling Euclid a liar? [7]
The simplest things turn out to be unfathomable mysteries; the most mysterious appearances prove to be the most commonplace objects in disguise. [6]
What you are trying to prove by subtlety I am proud and glad to declare. [10]
An' Willie was tryin' to git a word in to prove he wasn't at home all the day it happened--which was true, as I know--but Willie couldn't git a word in, an' then Judge Dyer went on layin' down the law. [13]
And, if they took the moral to heart, it would prove every bit as effectual as their own epitaphs. [9]
Let me prove to you that every vote withheld from Fremont and given to Fillmore in this State actually lessens Fillmore's chance of being President. [7]
They will prove to you by convincing argument that yonder lion is a rabbit. [10]
She is well--even to wantonness, since--wishing to prove the swiftness of her horses--she ran over the daughter of the paraschites Pinem. [10]
Dr. Woodville, Physician to the Small-Pox and Inoculation Hospital in London, found it improbable, and exceedingly inconvenient to himself, that cow pox should prevent small-pox; but Dr. Jenner took the liberty to prove the fact, notwithstanding. [3]
Evil tidings-which, owing to the loss of time involved, might prove fatal. [10]
He wished first to test whether this new fancy would prove more lasting. [10]
You have only to see what kinds of instruction they very commonly flock to in order to guess whether they would be likely to prove sensible practitioners. [6]
He sent me to say would you come directly, and that he knowed all about Kit, and could save him yet, and prove his innocence. [12]
They had lived to prove, once more, a sad truth which had been proven many times before in the world: that whereas principle is a great and noble protection against showy and degrading vanities and vices, poverty is worth six of it. [5]
And I propose to prove to you that, before the Honourable Adam B. [9]
But it goes to prove that you can never be exact in your estimate of character. [11]
When Floras tried to prove that under Hadrian's rule Rome had risen to the highest stage of its manhood, his friend, Demetrius, of Alexandria, interrupted him, and begged him to tell him something about the Emperor's person. [10]
The orator appeared to prove that there wasn't a respectable man in the opposite party who wasn't an office-holder, nor a white man of any kind in it who was not an office-holder. [4]
They were ready to prove that memory is a matter of will and cultivation. [11]
Destiny meant us to prove our case against it, as well as we might; to establish our right to be here as long as we could, so discovering the world day by day, and ourselves to the world, and ourselves to ourselves. [11]
As nothing happened to prove or to disprove the fact, she said, "I move we put Coonrod up to gittun' it out of Miss Vance, at some of their meetun's. [8]
I am content to prove myself. [9]
I'd do much to prove myself no enemy. [11]
Dicky challenged him to prove his libels by probing the business to the bottom, like a true scientist. [11]
Such spirit seems to prove health. [14]
I will undertake to prove by the record here that he made that charge against more and higher dignitaries than the editor of the Washington Union. [7]
He cannot prove to me that I am insane, for my mind has the same defect that afflicts his. [5]
Downing, has communicated to me facts which seem to prove that this does occur in certain families of short-horn cattle. [1]
I was now to learn what circumstances I should find in my new relations, and in what way they would prove teachers to me. [10]
You ask me to lay bare my past, to prove my identity. [11]
May it prove to him who comes after me like the cave of the Sibyl, out of the gloomy depths of which came the oracles which shone with the rays of truth and wisdom! [6]
She had sought to help one who loved her, and to fully prove the other--though the proving, she knew, was not necessary--before the darkness came. [11]
I was ready to give up all, throw all my life, my career, to the winds, and prove myself loyal to that which was more than all; or I was willing to eliminate myself from the scene forever. [11]
Dame Susannah intended to find him employment at a future date on her estates, or at Memphis, the centre of their administration, as he might prove himself capable. [10]
They will amount to convictions, yet we cannot prove them. [9]
I stand prepared to bring thirty reliable witnesses to prove that Putnam's famous feat at Horseneck was insignificant compared to this. [5]
If it prove to be true, as is probable, that the people of Utah are in open rebellion to the United States, then Judge Douglas is in favor of repealing their territorial organization, and attaching them to the adjoining States for judicial purposes. [7]
At the same time, to prove to his friends how sincerely he desired to please them, he proposed that he and Justinus should immediately cross the Nile to lay his application before the Khaliff's vicar. [10]
Later when she thought about the breaking of the phial, the conviction grew upon her limited intelligence that this accident would perhaps prove in the end to be the best thing that could have happened, not only for her but for all mankind. [10]
Then prove that those were no empty words, and be entreated by us. [10]
I tell you this, and I tell you quite calmly, that if you prove to be what, for the first time, I have a vision you are, I shall never look upon your face again if I can help it. [11]
I merely mention this to prove to you that I am not unmindful, in spite of the circumstances of my own life, of the unfortunates whose mental equipment is not equal to my own. [9]
The officer believed this strange traveller, jumped out of the carriage, flourishing his scourge and calling to his men: "This nobleman has come on purpose to prove Bartja's innocence, and must be taken to the king at once. [10]
To prove that this is true, I will open it at random and copy the page I happen to stumble upon. [5]
You can get this done at the Sakhi Binayak Temple, and it is best to do it, for otherwise you might not be able to prove that you had made the pilgrimage in case the matter should some day come to be disputed. [5]
I come to this court of justice, and my word is doubted ere I can prove the truth. [11]
The sincerity of this conviction he intended to prove by the best means at a merchant's command-the pledge of his own large capital. [10]
We can prove this by four hundred witnesses--we shall call but three. [5]
Say that you think the rebels are weaker than is commonly supposed, but, on the other hand, that they may prove to be even stronger than is anticipated. [6]
This sort of thing is common enough, but there is another case that may prove deceptive if you undertake to judge from appearances. [6]
Not only are they liable, as has been mentioned, to various accidental complications which may prove suddenly fatal, but too often, after convalescence seems to be established, relapses occur which are more serious than the disease had appeared to be in its previous course. [6]
They prove nothing, they disprove nothing, they illustrate nothing--except that a statesman may forget himself. [6]
The statements agree; they agree with--with--anyway, they agree; I noticed that; but what is it they prove I mean, in particular? [5]

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