I have at this moment in my possession apparently irresistible evidence of the reality of what then took place; and I am sure that there exists at a point on the earth's surface, which unluckily I cannot define, strong corroborative proof of my story.

He did not doubt the old doctor's word; his own knowledge gave corroborative evidence that it was quite true, and he wondered he had not thought of it.

Corroborative evidence had been pouring in; the doctor was the only man who could defeat the present member.

If you think him odd and ridiculous, he becomes more and more so every minute, à la folie, till he is a wonder gazed at by allset him against a good wit and a ready apprehension, and he brightens more and more ... P.G. Patmore's testimony is also corroborative:

This is vague and metaphysical enough; but it bears corroborative intimations, that the impression which he early made upon me was not incorrect.

"If you can offer any corroborative evidence" "Well, thenthere's a cat in that basket.

I can back up my assertion by any amount of corroborative detail.

He taxed his memory for corroborative evidence, and brought out the result with honest pride.

On the 30th November 1776 Sir John Pringle, President of the Royal Society, in his address to the Fellows, announced that the Copley Gold Medal had been conferred on Captain Cook for his paper on the Treatment of Scurvy, and gave some corroborative facts which had come under his own observation, concluding his speech as follows:

This seems to me absolutely to require some such origin as Sir George Darwin has given it, and thus furnishes corroborative proof of the accuracy of the hypothesis that our moon has had an unique origin among the known satellites, in having been thrown off from the earth itself.

Then seating himself, he bowed to his wife, and listened in corroborative silence while she related the following incident: "Last Summer when the Judge went on his circuit, he took the carriage, and I accompanied him on his travels.

Consequently, the smallest germs of the feeling are laid hold of and nourished by the contagion of sympathy and the influences of education; and a complete web of corroborative association is woven round it, by the powerful agency of the external sanctions.

Corroborative testimony,facts, similar to those established by the testimony of others,is highly valuable.

It is, reasonably enough, conjectured from several corroborative circumstances, that the altar above described is no less than 1,645 years old.

"Of course, what Boston can send us will be only corroborative; unfortunately we can't wire affidavits.

He did not hesitate to season his harangue by a sarcasm on the cast in the prosecutor's eye, or the wen on the defendant's neck, and to direct the attention of the court to these points, as though they were corroborative evidence of a moral deformity.

The examination of the younger Frenchman, a smart, alert young man, of pleasant, insinuating address, with a quick, inquisitive eye, followed the same lines, and was distinctly corroborative on all the points to which M. Lafolay spoke.

It is strangely but convincingly corroborative of our suspicions against her.

Various travelers touring the South, keen for corroborative evidence but finding none, still nursed the belief that a further search would bring reward.

We are so accustomed to deal with concurrent impressions that it is exceedingly difficult, even with the best intention of good faith, to ignore the influence of any corroborative impression that may be present.

This interesting question will be further considered in the chapters on India and Greece, where corroborative stories will be quoted.

It is corroborative of this that the Hebrew word kedem, signifies, in respect to place, the east, and, in respect to time, olden time, ancient days.

He did not doubt that Ghita, she whose testimony had just proved so serious a matter against him, would testify that she believed such was alone his motive; and this, too, in a way and with corroborative circumstances that would carry weight with the, more particularly as she could testify that he had done the same thing before, in the Island of Elba, and was even in the practice of paying her flying visits at Monte Argentaro.

"Well, maybe he did," he assented generously, gleaning a box from the pile on the bunk and sitting down, "but it sure looks like corroborative evidence, in here.

The Beethovens had neither kith nor kin in Bonn; the families Ries and Salomon, their intimate friends, were Israelites; hence the appearance of the neighbors, Frauen Loher and Müller, at the ceremony of baptism;a strong corroborative evidence, that No. 515, Bonngasse, was the actual birth-place of Beethoven.