Use truth in a sentence
Sentences starting with truth
- Truth was, Doltaire, who had no sordid feeling in him, loathed alike the cupidity of Bigot and the incompetency of the Governor, and respected Montcalm for his honour, and reproached him for his rashness. [11]
- Truth is, Phips was anxious that Gering should have no chance of objecting to the scoundrel who had, years before, tried to kidnap his now affianced wife--who had escaped a deserved death on the gallows. [11]
- Truth held me to the full, ludicrous tragedy of the tale, to the cheap character of my old Colonel's undertaking, to the incident of the drum, to the conversation in my room. [9]
- Truth compels me to say that she had long ceased to be a factor in my life. [9]
- Truth compels me to admit that the sum total of all his mortgages did not amount to nine thousand "dollars"; but that was a large sum of money for Coniston in those days, and even now. [9]
- Truth to say, there were penetralia in New York society concerning which this successful woman was uneasy in her heart. [4]
- Truth is truth the brown-skinned rascals can do fine work. [10]
- Truth is stranger than fiction--to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. [5]
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. [5]
- Truth is, Virginie Poucette's mind did not define her feelings at all clearly, or express exactly what she wanted. [11]
Sentences ending with truth
- By Apollo and Zeus, that is the truth! [10]
- Ah, I pray you, tell me the truth! [10]
- My family knows you, I laik to have you hear de truth. [9]
- I say to you, at the risk of the accusation of conceit, that I believed myself to have a power in the pulpit if I could only discover the truth. [9]
- Turn it as you will it is simply the truth! [7]
- I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
- I will tell you the truth. [2]
- I will tell you the truth. [11]
- So it is, you see, she is afraid to tell the truth. [11]
- Ah, how little you know of the truth! [12]
Short sentences using truth
- That was the wonderful truth. [13]
- The Lord's truth will prevail. [5]
- Tell me everything--the whole truth. [2]
- I demand the whole truth! [10]
- The unintended truth went home. [11]
- Homely truth is unpalatable. [5]
- Is that the truth? [7]
- It is the truth. [9]
- It's the absolute truth. [5]
- It's the real truth. [2]
Sentences containing truth two or more times
- See, Sheila, I will tell you the whole truth now--aye, the whole absolute truth. [11]
- To tell the whole truth is to bring fresh shame upon Mrs. Llyn and her daughter, and not to tell the whole truth is to take away my one chance of getting out of this trouble. [11]
- In it speech was restricted to absolute truth, iron-bound truth, implacable and uncompromising truth, let the resulting consequences be what they might. [5]
- I planted myself upon the truth and the truth only, so far as I knew it, or could be brought to know it. [7]
- It's just de truth, en nothin' _but_ de truth, so he'p me. [5]
- Nay, Art serves Truth, and Truth with Titan blows, Strikes fearless at all evil that it knows. [11]
- Is not the truth the truth? [11]
- I believe you've told me the truth as you see it and feel it, but I don't think it's the real truth. [11]
- I doubt not this is the truth, and the whole truth of the case, and this is as it should be. [7]
- I shall leave them crippled because I have the truth on my side, and the truth is irresistible. [9]
More example sentences with the word truth in them
- Go back to y'r condinsation, Coolin, an' take truth to y'r Bowl that there's many ways to die, an' one o' thim's in the commysariat, Coolin--shame for ye! [11]
- Your generous heart, your love of truth, and your beautiful reverence for the gods, your courage and heroism, in short, every thing that I love and honor in you, I shall give to the hero of my tale. [10]
- Let me tell your Highness the truth, in return for saving my life. [11]
- I have watched your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the mark. [10]
- He was just young enough, and there was still enough natural health in him, to know the healing touch of a perfect decency, a pure truth of spirit. [11]
- Now I tell you, Doctor dear, I tell you the truth, what I know! [11]
- But I loved you--" She shook her head, and with a smile of pitying disdain--he could so little see the real truth, his real misdemeanour--she said: "Oh no, never--never! [11]
- Yet I'm glad you wrote me; it gave me time to think, and I can tell you the truth as I see it. [11]
- I will tell you the whole truth, Monsieur. [11]
- I will tell you the truth, my friend, even if it cuts me to the heart. [11]
- But to tell you the truth, Jethro, one old friend to another, durned if I don't wish she was married. [9]
- And, to tell you the truth, I believe he would like that a good deal better; I believe that, if there's anything he hates, it's openness and candor. [8]
- I will tell you the truth, Andrew... is Father's way of treating religious subjects. [2]
- It is right you should know the truth about your birth, but it is not right you should declare it to all the world now. [11]
- If pride within you secretly abides That, forced by the elixir's charm, The Sooth You needs must speak--be wholly pure in thought, Despising not the teachings wise, of old; When Truth with equal earnestness was sought If speech be silver, silence then is gold! [10]
- And I'm telling you nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one single drop of rain fell on me--not a single drop, sir! [5]
- In truth, Paula, you have forgotten how to look around and forward. [10]
- I couldn't let you go from me now, ignorant of the truth, you whose trust is beyond telling. [11]
- I am certain you feel this truth in your heart of hearts. [14]
- But, madame, as you are a true woman, believe what I say; for, I repeat, it is the truth. [11]
- This should bring you a barony,--Sir John," my lord added, half graciously, half satirically; for the honest truth of this man's nature vexed him. [11]
- Big-featured and stern, yet he had the kindly eye of the most indomitable of frontier fighters, and I doubted not the truth of what was said of him--that he could kill any redskin hand-to-hand. [9]
- He did not yet guess the truth. [11]
- Has any one yet found the right answer to the old question: 'What is Truth? [10]
- But, in truth, ye had good right to wound. [11]
- Then Hathi was wroth, and said he would have the truth, if he had to go and fetch it himself. [5]
- He might be wrong, but his words carried the evidence of his own serene, unshaken confidence that the spirit of all truth was with him. [6]
- Any of them would say in a moment, if asked, that it was always right and always best to tell the truth. [5]
- Now that he would learn the actual truth from the most credible eye-witnesses she no longer dreaded even the worst calumny. [10]
- In truth, Philip would have said that he saw very little of Evelyn, because he never saw her absolutely alone. [4]
- In truth he would have come to a bad end, but that the younger woman saved him at the risk of her own life. [10]
- Any other word would have answered as well--though--in truth it would not have sounded so Scriptural. [5]
- Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would unmask his deceivers! [2]
- My word "fountain" would be correct; it would speak the strict truth; and it would convey the strict truth to the handful of Syrians, and the strictest misinformation to the North American millions. [5]
- Nothing in this world--and that is just the truth. [5]
- He blindly felt working in the man before him a powerful mind, more powerful because it faced the truth unflinchingly; but he knew that this did not mean calm acceptance of the consequences. [11]
- The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
- Not a single word unconnected with his trade, the weather, or an accident, had ever reached the friends' ears from Chello's thick lips, and this circumstance seemed to warrant Hermon in the expectation of learning from him the pure, unadulterated truth. [10]
- Dear, light of womanhood, I speak the truth now. [11]
- He had died without knowing the truth, and her heart was hardened against him who had brought misery upon her. [11]
- Unless you are without faith that a lie can be successfully contradicted, there is not a word of truth in the charge, and I am just considering a little as to the best shape to put a contradiction in. [7]
- He had been within an ace of losing his Katterle forever, and through no one's guilt save that of the man on whose truth and steadfastness she so firmly relied. [10]
- Only the conviction with which men like Clemens and Origen, who were friends of his wife, declared that the doctrine to which they adhered was the only right one--was, in fact, the truth itself--seemed to the skeptic "foolishness. [10]
- I may say with truth that I should be a useful member of that, as I am accustomed to sitting on financial boards. [9]
- Freedom is lost with too much responsibility and seriousness, and the truth is more likely to be struck out in a lively play of assertion and retort than when all the words and sentiments are weighed. [4]
- She had spoken with the soft irony of truth, the blind tyranny of the just. [11]
- I was wroth with the hard and bitter world for its cruelty; yet it was in truth that very world, and its pitiless call to duty, which at that time rescued me from worse things. [10]
- This was said with no appearance of cunning or deceit, but with an unsuspicious frankness that bore the impress of truth. [12]
- She often argued with her father, and, if the truth were told, had had more than one victory over Judge Whipple. [9]
- I go away with feelings that may be conceived but cannot be described, feeling within myself that desolating truth that my best affections have experienced this night a stifler! [12]
- I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us from this heavy reproach in any practicable way. [7]
- Chartersea came forward with an indifferent swagger, as if to say as much: and, in truth, no one looked for more sport, and some were even turning away. [9]
- It comes suddenly with a terrible blow of truth. [13]
- I was pleased with a kind of truth which it seemed to me to wrap up in its rather startling affirmation. [6]
- I can only wish that I were younger, that my arm were stronger, and that I had always perceived the truth as clearly as I see it now. [9]
- Out of those windows, to Victoria, shone honesty and truth, and the peace which these alone may bring. [9]
- Suppose I'm innocent--how will you feel when the truth comes out? [11]
- If the truth will permit, I propose that you sustain me in the following manner: copy the inclosed scrap in your own handwriting and get everybody (not three or four, but three or four hundred) to sign it, and then send it to me. [7]
- Yes, any one will grant that, for it is the truth. [5]
- I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
- There was trouble wi' the lad-wi' him and Maister Robert at the Court; but I never knowed nowt o' the truth. [11]
- But, Judge Douglas, why didn't you tell the truth? [7]
- To him for whom Apollo, the pure among the gods, and the Muses, friends of beauty, do not open it at the same time with truth, its gates will remain closed, no matter how strongly and persistently he shakes them. [10]
- Tell her the whole truth, out of Irene's hearing, with the gravity the matter deserves, and she will not hinder her sister when she knows how great and how imminent is the danger that threatens her. [10]
- Tell him the whole truth, and send him a ticket of admission to the Institution for Idiots and Feeble-minded Youth? [6]
- Tell me the whole truth of it, Bent-Anat. [10]
- And the falcon-seller, who was thick-set and broad-shouldered, was in truth not unlike a wild-cat in his unkempt shagginess, albeit free from all craft and guile. [10]
- Here were people who knew the truth about him, knew the sort of man he really was. [11]
- The poor woman, who had no cause to doubt her son, but every reason for relying on his honesty and truth, was staggered, notwithstanding, by his not having advanced one word in his defence. [12]
- But honest Appenzelder, who frankly contradicted everything opposed to the truth, would not let this statement pass. [10]
- What I learned while seeking after truth during those night hours ought to have taught me the connection between mind and body; yet I was never farther from perceiving it. [10]
- Nilus, who wrote while Orion dictated, giving the document a legal form, was deeply touched by the young man's fore thought and kindness; for in truth, since his desecration of the judgment-seat, he had given him up for a lost soul. [10]
- Here is one which--well, now, how often we do slam right into the truth without ever suspecting it: The men employed by the Gas Company go around and speculate the meter. [5]
- That blessed clairvoyance which sees into things without opening them, --that glorious license, which, having shut the door and driven the reporter from its key-hole, calls upon Truth, majestic virgin! [6]
- Only the mind which is capable of comprehending the laws of Nature can escape the danger of mistaking the fortuitous, and ever changing reality, for the eternal and unchangeable truth. [10]
- There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. [5]
- The long weeks which had passed since that night at Hamley, when she had told Eglington the truth about so many things, had brought no peace, no understanding, no good news from anywhere. [11]
- I don't know whether you've told me the truth or not, but I think you have. [11]
- And Honora wondered whether there were not an element of truth in what Mr. Dewing said of their hostess--that she thought nothing immoral except novels with happy endings. [9]
- 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]
- I knew not whether he lied concerning Alixe, but my heart was wrung with misery, for indeed he spoke with an air of truth. [11]
- In the shadows where his nature dwelt now he would not allow her good innocence and truth to enter. [11]
- In this world where every thing is deceitful, and no one is outspoken, the man who alone is under the necessity of proclaiming what he considers the truth, is like a warrior who opposes himself without shield or harness to a fully armed foe. [10]
- On the Sundays when the heathen prevailed she studied the congregation, grew to distinguish the local country families; and, if the truth must be told, watched for several Sundays for that ugly yet handsome young man whom she had seen on horseback. [9]
- I'll tell you what, Farrar," said I, "the truth is, that this fellow never embezzled so much as a ten-cent piece. [9]
- The news of what had happened had found its way to her solitary apartments, and, notwithstanding the hour, she had risen in order to try and discover the truth and warn her son against pronouncing a too hasty decision. [10]
- He represents that what food "he carefully provided the rest carelessly spent," and there is probably much truth in his charges that the settlers were idle and improvident. [4]
- You listen to what dat Depeau he say,--dat is not truth. [9]
- If the truth were told, whatever it is, I believe it would be to your credit--I'll say that for you. [11]
- Her own spirits were none too good, and Miss Lucretia's eye, in its search for truth, seemed to pierce into her very soul. [9]
- If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing. [5]
- His positive instructions were full of value, but the spirit in which he taught inspired that loyal love of truth which lies at the bottom of all real excellence. [3]
- It is a well-known law that widely-ranging species are much more variable than species with restricted ranges; and the variability of man may with more truth be compared with that of widely- ranging species, than with that of domesticated animals. [1]
- Night after night we have shivered around through these mildewed halls, dragging chains, groaning, whispering, tramping up and down stairs, till, to tell you the truth, I am almost worn out. [5]
- The truth is, we do not even know that there was any breach at all at this time. [5]
- I don't think we can tell the exact truth about ourselves. [11]
- On such occasions we appealed to my mother, and her answer instantly set all doubts at rest; for we thought she could never be mistaken, and knew that she always told the truth. [10]
- Is that the way to test the truth of any doctrine? [7]
- Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. [5]
- In her primitive way Kitty had intuitively apprehended the main truth, and that was enough to justify her in contributing to Mona Crozier's punishment. [11]
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