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Sentences ending with proved

Well, what have you proved? [2]
I know their witnesses say that there are cross currents--that, as one witness says, there were three cross currents and two eddies; so far as mere statement, without experiment, and mingled with mistakes, can go, they have proved. [7]
The witnesses prove the will, or, if they are dead, their signatures can be proved. [4]
But, strangely enough, the warning voice reproached him still more sharply for having, in the presence of others, accused and disparaged his brother-in-law's betrothed bride, whose guilt he believed proved. [10]
Tom felt that the thing was settled; if evidence was worth anything, this poor fellow's guilt was proved. [5]
The finding of the knife was verified, the advertisement minutely describing it and offering a reward for it was put in evidence, and its exact correspondence with that description proved. [5]
He kept laughing sarcastically, he demonstrated, and at last contemptuously ceased to demonstrate, like a mathematician who ceases to prove in various ways the accuracy of a problem that has already been proved. [2]
The man has said his deed was but lamely proved. [5]
He was secretly rejoiced to see the sweet modesty which had so charmed him again proved. [10]
It can't be proved. [9]

Short sentences using proved

And so it proved. [9]
Thet's all been proved. [13]
It could be proved. [11]
That is, unfortunately, proved. [10]
But has it proved so? [7]
Nitetis has been proved guilty. [10]
Five of them proved fatal. [3]
Phanes' arrangements had proved excellent. [10]
His pluck proved it. [5]
Suppose she proved it, imperiously! [13]

Sentences containing proved two or more times

After I had proved the lady's innocence--you understand, after I had proved the lady's innocence to him--" "Yes, I understand," came the hoarse reply. [11]
When they tried Mr. Fairoaks, and a cloud of witnesses proved him to be--well, you know what they proved him to be--and his own testimony and his own confessions gave him the same character, what did Congress do then?--come! [5]
Oropastes, who had already entered on his duties as regent of the kingdom, and had clearly proved his non-participation in the crime of which his brother had been proved guilty, bestowed the vacant places exclusively on the Magi. [10]

More example sentences with the word proved in them

You have proved yourself a man, Richard, and there are very few macaronies would have done as you did. [9]
I proved to you just now that I know more about the origin of Scarabei than you do. [10]
They haven't proved you guilty yet. [11]
The thoroughly un-Hellenic wrapping up of the legs proved that. [10]
On no account would she have left the capital during this period of decision, and, though her husband earnestly entreated her to go to the springs, whose waters had proved so beneficial, she remained in Brussels. [10]
Hood, which never would have occurred had not Eliphalet proved without question the incapacity of the ancient manager. [9]
Not one single word of evidence had the defence brought to discredit Crozier, save by Crozier's own word of mouth; and if Crozier had cared to commit perjury, the defence could not have proved him guilty of it. [11]
To intoxicate themselves with wine, the gift of the god to whom they were paying homage, was not only permitted, but commanded, and the juice of the grape proved its all-equalizing power. [10]
The warm confidence with which Mary, the widow of the King of Hungary, who fell in the Turkish war, gazed into Quijada's finely modelled, slightly bronzed countenance proved that she knew how to estimate his worth aright. [10]
The streets swarmed with people, waiting impatiently to see the strange spectacle which the punishment of one of the king's wives, who had proved false and faithless, promised to afford. [10]
They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
Dry night and wind steady enough to require no change in sail; but this A.M. an attempt to lower it proved abortive. [5]
The Demeter, in whom you proved so marvellously that the art of a mortal is sufficient to create immortals, is beginning to show her gratitude. [10]
With an instinct, which proved correct, he opened the door leading into the old kitchen, and there, tied, and with pale faces, but in no other sense disordered, were Sheila and her mother. [11]
His fortunate star, which in the Capital had shone on him so brightly and benevolently, seemed to have proved faithless in this ruinous hole! [10]
The art to which he had gained entrance by so severe a struggle, and on whose soil he had laboured diligently enough, proved, so far as outward recognition was concerned, cruel to the enthusiastic disciple. [10]
During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long-anticipated battle before sunrise. [10]
They proved it when, to stand by their convictions, they put themselves and their families at the mercy of a problematical future; and when, in advanced years, they undertook the gigantic work of compiling so large and profound a German dictionary. [10]
But we found what we sought, the most suitable house possible, whose landlady proved to have been trained as a cook in a Frankfort hotel. [10]
These accusations were what had encouraged the Negro to confiscate the young man's estate, particularly as the bitter tone of the patriarch's document sufficiently proved that in him he had found an ally. [10]
During the weeks we've been at sea, bursting along, have I proved myself? [11]
And if it were proved to her that you were in love with Miss Swain, the barrister's daughter, over whom we were said to have fought, she would as soon marry Chartersea, or March, or the devil, to show you how little she cared. [9]
These perfect creatures were perhaps as fine as the famous team of golden bays belonging to Iphicrates, which so often had proved victorious; but the agitatores, or drivers, attracted even more interest than the horses. [10]
But he was well cared for, and if she was still his clear daughter, she must treat Herr Pyramus Kogel kindly this time, for he had proved a faithful son and good Samaritan to him. [10]
Listen, Bischen; if we really should be executed, go to the Magi, the Chaldwans, and Nebenchari the Egyptian, and tell them they had better not study the stars any longer, for that those very stars had proved themselves liars and deceivers to Darius. [10]
Slow as he was, however, the stout Scotsman had more than once proved himself a man of rare merit according to Hume's ideas. [11]
Their whole strength was to be reserved, as the examination proved, for the attack upon the royal palaces. [10]
What had happened was that news (which afterwards proved to be false) had been received during the night of a movement by the French to outflank the Drissa camp. [2]
At which there was rejoicing at Lebanon, followed by dismay and indignation at Manitou, for one of the smaller merged railways had its offices there, and it was now removed to Lebanon; while several of the staff, having proved cantankerous, were promptly retired. [11]
That I never was in a Know-Nothing lodge in Quincy, I should expect could be easily proved by respectable men who were always in the lodges and never saw me there. [7]
My whole nature was filled with the longing to utilize and enjoy this brief earthly life which Feuerbach had proved was to end with death. [10]
But no man was ever entrusted with it to whom its seductions were less dangerous than they proved to be to Abraham Lincoln. [7]
His local knowledge was especially valuable on account of the marshes which intersected the Pelusian plain, and might, unless carefully avoided, have proved fatal to the Persian enterprise. [10]
Now that he was dead, it would be proved in what way he had remembered the son whom, in his solitude, he had learned to love, what life path John had been assigned by his father. [10]
I knew this was a mistake; and the result has proved it. [7]
New diseases and vices have in some cases proved highly destructive; and it appears that a new disease often causes much death, until those who are most susceptible to its destructive influence are gradually weeded out (33. [1]
We call them vascular glands, and we believe that they elaborate colored and uncolored blood-cells; but just what changes they effect, and just how they effect them, it has proved a very difficult matter to determine. [3]
These, and Colonel Varney, had seen to it that men who had any parliamentary ability had been attended to; all save Krebs, who had proved a surprise. [9]
Burlingame and Van Valkenburgh were on their way to their posts, and their coming to the islands just at this time proved a most important circumstance to Mark Twain. [5]
In short, so useful has that trivial implement proved as a jaw-stopper and a boricide, that I never go to a club or a dinner-party, without wishing the company included our Scheherezade and That Boy with his popgun. [6]
Thou hast told us faithfully all that thou hast heard, and thereby proved that thou canst obey--the first virtue of a priest. [10]
It's her house until you've proved she's got no right there. [11]
It proved an unfortunate journey; the hot weather was hard on Mrs. Clemens, and harder still, perhaps, on Mark Twain's temper. [5]
During her absence Uarda was to rub her grandfather's temples with the leaves which the witch Hekt had laid on her bruises, for as they had once proved efficacious they might perhaps a second time scare away the demon of sickness. [10]
I know and trust him, and whoever expects aught else will sooner or later, by my son's course of action, be proved a liar. [10]
The San Francisco trip proved successful. [5]
Having proved his trial candle's rate, he blew it out--I have already shown it to you --and put his inch-marks on a fresh one. [5]
As Talbott afterwards told me, he went to the General's, but not finding him at home, got the deed from his son, which, when compared with the record, proved what we had discovered was merely an error of the recorder. [7]
His wondering as to why Melissa had returned, had led to many guesses, and had proved fruitless. [10]
They had proved to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlantic. [5]
But the addition to the armies of Germany, France, Styria, and Hungary of John Smith, "this English gentleman," as he styles himself, put a new face on the war, and proved the ruin of the Turkish cause. [4]
You was out to save, and not to lose, a life; that was proved to the satisfaction of the court. [11]
When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish. [11]
It is gratifying to know that the patriotism of the people has proved equal to the occasion, and that the number of troops tendered greatly exceeds the force which Congress authorized me to call into the field. [7]
It was proved to his face, that he begged in Ireland like a rogue, without a lycence. [4]
It is owing to him, and the care and skill of the great leech Erasistratus, that I am still standing before you alive and can praise what my Hermon was and proved himself to me in those days. [10]
Well, I proved to him he might have one hundred and twenty-six other ancestors besides Ebenezer and his wife. [9]
I am sorry to hear that it has not proved effectual in putting a stop to the abuse of a deserving class of men. [6]
Dr. Powell appears to have proved (25. [1]
The streamlet proved to have about the width with which it flowed through my memory. [6]
Now, without attempting to explain, he furnishes me with another witness (Tinsley) by which the same thing is proved, to wit, that the assignment was not manufactured just before the election; but that it was some weeks before. [7]
Experience, he said to Charmian, proved that no man of any feeling could wholly resist the charm of her nature, and to him at least she had never seemed more winning than now. [10]
The man proved to be Swein Poulsson, and the object a big drum, and he straightway began to beat upon it a tattoo with improvised drumsticks. [9]
His will is to be proved tomorrow. [4]
Mr. Siddons proved to be a small and sallow young man with a pointed nose and bright, bulbous brown eyes like a chipmunk's. [9]
The list proved to be a long and varied one. [6]
Mr. Flint found time, too, to write some carefully worded but nevertheless convincing articles for the Newcastle Guardian, very damaging to certain commanders who had proved unfaithful. [9]
But by the time this letter, which proved that the real relation of the forces had already made itself felt in Petersburg, was dispatched, Kutuzov had found himself unable any longer to restrain the army he commanded from attacking and a battle had taken place. [2]
How strong this thread has proved is shown by the action of those of Dutch blood in the Dominion during the present war. [9]
The widow probably thought so, too, for she stroked them with her fat hand, promising, as she did so, to receive her and let her want for nothing if she proved an obedient little daughter. [10]
But the bare thought of having so soon lost the power to bind him to her aroused a storm of feeling in her passionate soul, and when it subsided bitter thoughts followed, and a series of plans which, on closer examination, proved impracticable. [10]
The origin of this distressful thing was this--and I assert here that every fact in the following resume can be amply proved by the official records of the General Government. [5]
Until it's proved, they're entitled--" Burlingame paused. [11]
They proved that they were right in calling themselves "pious lansquenets. [10]
In any of these eventualities the flank march that brought salvation might have proved disastrous. [2]
His name was Theocritus, and although he was distinguished by great personal beauty and exceptional cleverness, his unbridled greed had made him hated, and he had proved equally incompetent as a statesman and a general. [10]
Mistress Dolly was then as mischievous a little baggage as ever she proved afterwards. [9]
I proved to them that in a quarter of a century their wages had advanced but 30 per cent., while the cost of living had gone up 100; and that with us, in a shorter time, wages had advanced 40 per cent. [5]
To add to the troubles, the Ranger proved crank and slow-sailing; and she had only one barrel of rum aboard, which made the men discontented. [9]
But, after all, the tale must have proved readable as a story to account for the large number of editions which it has reached. [6]
In March of the same year he had two moderate cases, in June, another case, and in July, another, which proved fatal. [3]
That it was the right one was proved by the nature of the gratifying news brought by the very last despatches. [10]
Kutuzov's expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, and also that Murat's mistake would very soon be discovered, proved correct. [2]
This was truly the principle of contraries contrariis, which ill-informed persons have attempted to make out to be the general doctrine of medicine, whereas there is no general dogma other than this: disease is to be treated by anything that is proved to cure it. [3]
I carefully examined the President's message, to ascertain what he himself had said and proved upon the point. [7]
He believed in the powers exerted by that remarkable man over spirits, and his ability to work miracles, for he had proved in the most startling manner that he had perfect control even over such a determined mind as that of the prefect. [10]
Well, said Tom, the Petrel hadn't proved much better than a raft, after all. [9]
My mother kept the old books containing the accounts of these excursions, which occupied from two to three weeks, and they possessed a certain interest for me, principally because they proved how skilfully our teachers understood how to carry out Froebel's principles on these occasions. [10]
The remedies of the oculists to whom he had been directed by Daphne herself had proved ineffectual. [10]
Every attempt of the man who had once held so proud a position to get his release, by an act of the senate, proved vain. [10]
The fortifying of the Kremlin, for which la Mosquee (as Napoleon termed the church of Basil the Beatified) was to have been razed to the ground, proved quite useless. [2]
In some cases the guesses had to remain in doubt, in the others they proved distinct errors. [5]
The mention in the foregoing letter of the Napoleon effigy is the beginning of what proved to be a rather interesting episode. [5]
Her conversation with the editor of the Record proved so entertaining that she forgot all about the clipping until she had reached Fairview, and had satisfied a somewhat imperious appetite by a combination of lunch and afternoon tea. [9]
Other difficulties developed; the door in the back of the shed proved to be too narrow for our ship's beam. [9]
The calls of the cheerful notary and the daily visits of the leech, an elderly man, who had depressed rather than cheered him by informing him of many cases like his own which all proved incurable, had been his sole diversion. [10]
When I closed the argument on my part, a large package was handed me, which proved to be the plat you sent me. [7]
After the confession the almoner heard things to which he would gladly have shut his ears, though they proved that the time which the marquise had spent at the French court had benefited her powers of observation. [10]
The stopping of the alarm bells proved that the fire was under control. [10]
The indulgence of the "Inquisitor" Tetzel had proved its power, and rescued her from the fire. [10]

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