Proven

Examples

• The Wilmington expedition has proven a gross and culpable failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It trebled the output of grain, and the welfare of the people has proven largely dependent on their food supply. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Nay, it is common and proven knowledge with _Gitanos_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Second--To devise an electric lamp that would give about the same amount of light as a gas jet, which custom had proven to be a suitable and useful unit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Even if the canal had proven a success, so far as to be navigable for steamers, it could not have been of much advantage to us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It has been proven conclusively that they can not worship together around the grave of the Saviour of the World in peace. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• That Edison did produce speech with solid electrodes before Berliner is clearly proven. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This is absolutely proven by the exact duplication of the pattern on sets of spoons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We gained an advantage on the morning of the 6th, which, if it had been followed up, must have proven very decisive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Subsequent experience has amply proven the value of Edison's prescience at this time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The soul, I said, being, as is now proven, immortal, must be the fairest of compositions and cannot be compounded of many elements? Plato. The Republic.
• All I have revealed about the Wandering Jew can be amply proven by reference to our guide. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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