1280 examples of testify in sentences

and, as a wife can't testify against the husband, your client is secure.

He saved the life of one of them who can be brought here to testify.

I shall myself go on the stand and testify to your handiwork.

" <Say, utter, pronounce, announce, state, declare, affirm, aver, asseverate, allege, assert, avouch, avow, maintain, claim, depose, predicate, swear, suggest, insinuate, testify>.

The gay look on their faces, the blood in their cheeks, the upright carriage and quick, elate stepwhen compared with the hang-dog, sallow, dull creatures I knew beforeall testify to the working of some magic influence.

" "I can testify to that, for we've been between ye ever since." said the constable.

After what had recently happenedthe two or three indirect but so worrying questions Mr. French had put to herit would only be some thoroughly detached friend or witness who might effectively testify.

Almsgiving, recommended above all other virtues, was not only to be practised in obedience to Allah's law and in faith in retribution, but it was to testify contempt of all earthly possessions which might impede the striving after eternal happiness.

Since, from my childhood I have ever been, Amidst my play-mates of superior mien; Should friend or foe demand my father's name, Let not my silence testify my shame!

They were personally cowardly, as their own chronicles declare; querulous, passionate, prone to unmanly tears; prone, as their writings abundantly testify, to scold, to use the most virulent language against all who differed from them; they were, at times, fearfully cruel, as evil women will be; cruel with that worst cruelty which springs from cowardice.

The charitable were ready to testify that there was no harm in her.

Being invited to come and do his worst, he passed himself as a docther on a fishing excursion, and having with deliberate intent murthered Captain Wegg, got himself called by the coroner to testify that the victim died of heart disease.

Every European vessel brought new cargoes of the sect, eager to testify against the oppression which they hoped to share; and, when shipmasters were restrained by heavy fines from affording them passage, they made long and circuitous journeys through the Indian country, and appeared in the province as if conveyed by a supernatural power.

"Will you come ashore and testify before the judge in behalf of your master?"

And nothing touchedas the police that were called in at first can testify.

You can find it on any map, and I can testify that the news is true.

It was more than likely that they would want him to testify as a witness.

Your Rhetoric has gained my cause; as least, the greatest part of my design has already succeeded to my wish: which was, to interest so noble a Person in the Quarrel; and withal, to testify to the World, how happy I esteem myself in the honour of being, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble, and most obedient servant, JOHN DRYDEN.

In the year 1809 the elders came in a body to the manse, and said that, seeing that I was now growing old, they thought they could not testify their respect for me in a better manner than by agreeing to get me a helper; and the next year several young ministers spared me from the necessity of preaching.

"Why does not some man of God go boldly into the lecture-room of the sorceress, and testify against her?" he asked.

That there is much truth in the assertion that "the majority of women never look below their chins, and not one in ten ever looks thoughtfully at her back," every observer of womankind might testify.

"What is a few gew-gaws to decorate them that perish, and make them vain, when you come to consider the opportunity of such a trial, and the good it'll do and the draw it'll beif I do winand testify to the congregation to that effect?

American slavery provides impunity for the white murderer of the slave, by its allowing none but whitesnone but those who construct and uphold the system of abominationsto testify against the murderer.

[Footnote B: These two verses are so explicit we quote them entire"And it shall be if thou do at all forget the Lord they God and walk after other Gods and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish, as the nations which the Lord destroyed before your face, so shall ye perish."

The only States, that I am aware of, where secrecy is enjoined by law are New York and Indiana; and in the former of these I can most certainly testify, from personal observation, that in many instances, if not in most, it is a dead letter.

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