Proves

Examples

• I am afraid that proves you are already caught. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This proves that he can leave the Churchills. Jane Austen. Emma.
• That proves you must have been an honest and faithful servant. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The absurdity of the two last suppositions proves sufficiently the veracity of the firSt. Nor is there any fourth opinion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This connexion or constant conjunction sufficiently proves the one part to be the cause of the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I admit that the mark of the paint proves the nightgown to have made the smear on Rachel's door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The removal of either of these destroys the passion; which evidently proves that the cause Is a compounded one. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing--I used to be a good boy, for that matter. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• That is what your argument proves. Plato. The Republic.
• Then Palamedes, whenever he appears in tragedy, proves Agamemnon ridiculously unfit to be a general. Plato. The Republic.
• But its possession proves nothing without this. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The fact that the movement was unopposed proves this. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The ring, after all, proves nothing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It proves him unspoilt by his uncle. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• At first the drugs seem to restore the lost energy, and without harm; however, the cost soon proves to be one of the highest Nature ever demands. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The Christian tradition did not survive because of Aquinas or fall before the Higher Criticism, nor will it be revived because someone proves the scientific plausibility of its doctrine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Then, the more violent syndicalism proves itself to be, the more hysterically we bait it in the usual vicious circle of ignorance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This gas proves to be colorless, tasteless, and odorless. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The occupation, as at present conducted, is very unhealthy, for the fumes of the phosphorus produce a disease of a remarkable kind in the jaw-bone, which often proves fatal. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Nonsense--that proves nothing either way, said Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• One proves to be oxygen, a substance with which we are already familiar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Which proves, of course, that the book was dropped after the crime was committed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Adeimantus further argues that the ideal is wholly at variance with facts; for experience proves philosophers to be either useless or rogues. Plato. The Republic.
• This constant conjunction sufficiently proves, that the one part is the cause of the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• His lapse from honesty proves him honest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This suffices to satisfy the imagination, and proves there is no repugnance in such a motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This can be demonstrated by evaporating the neutral liquid to dryness and examining the residue of solid matter, which proves to be common salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I am the exception that proves the rule, he replied audaciously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Edited by Janet