16 Verbs to Use for the Word proves

Both good and bad, as doth the sequel prove: For (wretched) I have found and lost my love, If that be lost which I can nere enjoy.

| I'll con | -stant prove; Those thoughts, | to me | like oaks, | to thee

She has told all, or nearly all, she knew, 'And like poor Andrew must advance, Mean mimic of her master's dance; But similes, like songs in love, Describing much, too little prove.

Madam, that grief the better is sustain'd, That's for a loss that never yet was gain'd; You only lose a man that does not know How great the honour is which you bestow; Who dares not hope you love, or if he did, Your Greatness would his just return forbid; His humble thoughts durst ne'er to you aspire, At most he would presume but to admire; Or if it chanc'd he durst more daring prove, You still must languish and conceal your Love.

Many years of Leslie's life were devoted to disputes with Catholics, Quakers, Socinians, and Deists, and the seven volumes which his writings fill prove that he was an extremely able controversialist.

At all events 1 consider 'the first-born of every creature' as a false version of the words, which (as the argument and following verse prove) should be rendered 'begotten before', (or rather 'superlatively before'), 'all that was created or made; for by him' they were made.

Then in the name of Rome I here present The rods and axes into Sylla's hand; And fortunate prove Sylla, our dictator.

I seized the vermin, home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread: Slow crawled the snail, and, if I right can spell, In the soft ashes marked a curious L. Oh, may this wondrous omen lucky prove!

How can a person who has paid his tax prove that he has paid it?

And the worst of all is that the heroic part which I imagined I was playing proves to have been almost the reverse.

Remember you those tender lines of Logan? "Our broken friendships we deplore, And loves of youth that are no more; No after friendships e'er can raise Th' endearments of our early days, And ne'er the heart such fondness prove, As when we first began to love.

Why, thou whoreson refuge of a tailor, that wert 'prentice to a tailor half an age, and because, if thou hadst served ten ages thou wouldst prove but a botcher, thou leapst from the shop-board to a blue coat, doth it become thee to use thy terms so?

But still, shouldst thou faithless prove, Thy plighted vows resigning, Leave me and seek another love, I'd bear, without repining.

And, as if to put aside all doubt, the bottle from which this Eugénie de Tourville admits she took the cordial proves to contain distilled laurel-water, a deadly poison, curiously colored and flavored.

Can aught more sweet, more genial prove, Than melting music, wine, and love?

Listen to Matthew Arnold: "But in the world I learnt, what there Thou wilt too surely one day prove, That will, that energy, though rare, Are yet far, far less rare than love.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  proves