Convincing

Examples

• End of Penelope's evidence--and very pretty and convincing, too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And this may be received as a convincing argument for our preceding doctrine with regard to property and justice. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Here again was given a most convincing demonstration of the truth that such an addition to the resources of mankind always carries with it unsuspected benefits even for its enemies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But there were some upright and honorable men in the South Carolina Legislature, and they finally succeeded in convincing their associates that Whitney had been maligned. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By these experiments Franklin's theory was established in the most convincing manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• His teacher then tried the experiment himself, with a still livelier and more convincing result, whereupon he declared that he would not repeat the trial for the whole Kingdom of France. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Such evidence is to be received with great caution, and the presumption of novelty arising from the grant of the patent is not to be overcome except upon clear and convincing proof. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I answered him--more because my tongue is a woman's, and must answer, than because I had anything convincing to say. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There is convincing proof of the existence of God in the very fact that Nature, even in chaos, cannot proceed otherwise than regula rly and according to law. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I have lived, sir, a long time: and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, _That_ GOD _governs in the affairs of men_! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You never, returns Tony with a most convincing steadfastness, said a truer word in all your life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To confirm this we may add the following argument, which to me seems perfectly decisive and convincing. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It looked convincing enough. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And Amy, who was very dignified in public and very fond in private, gave convincing proofs of the truth of her words. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Accept light on the same terMs. I thought this very convincing and attentive. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These phaenomena, when duly weighed, will be found convincing proofs of this hypothesis. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In examining these sentiments, I find they afford many very convincing arguments for my present purpose. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But a more convincing argument still is the miserable state of the world, which he touchingly describes. Plato. The Republic.
• He had no reason to disbelieve them; the girl's manner being so natural as to be almost convincing, if he had had any previous doubts. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I could not have resisted its entreaty, if the assurance that it gave me had been less convincing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I cannot make speeches, Emma: he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Then shall we try to find some way of convincing him, if we can, that he is saying what is not true? Plato. The Republic.
• Nor is there any convincing evidence of man in America before the end of the Pleistocene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This exact conformity of experience to our reasoning is a convincing proof of the solidity of that hypothesis, upon which we reason. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These words had such a round and convincing sound for him that he said them twice. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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