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Examples
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Where Broadway skirts the corner of the square presided over by George the Veracious is the Little Rialto.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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The only trouble is, I'm on one of the Word Meister three-person teams, called the Veracious Verbarians, that will compete in the event.
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The only trouble is, I'm on one of the Word Meister three-person teams, called the Veracious Verbarians, that will compete in the event.
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Mulla Sadra uses this doctrine as part of his own ontological proof for the existence of God known as the Proof of the Veracious (burhan al-siddiqin).
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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Manly, Noble, Open, Polite, Quickwitted, Rich, and the S's according to the saying, and then Tender, Veracious: X does not suit him, for it is a rough letter; Y has been given already; and Z
Don Quixote 2002
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The worthy man explained that the Koran declares that no True Believer might take Jew or Christian to be his friend, that the Veracious Book also assures the Faithful that Jews will be turned to pigs or monkeys for their unbelief, and that the metamorphosis will be painful.
Morocco S.L. Bensusan
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"George the Veracious," running between the silent and terrible mountains, finally, with a shriek and a crash, to dive headlong into the tunnel at Thirty-fourth Street, and never to be seen again; or even some purlieu of the great East Side, where he could sit listening at ease in the humble shop of Fitbad the Tailor.
Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909
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One day she read in a Veracious Newspaper that if the Left Hand of a
More Fables George Ade 1905
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[141] Veracious is perhaps one of the 'four or five words' which Johnson added, or thought that he added, to the English language.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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In commenting upon these words, an able writer of the North exclaims: “Veracious prophecy, showing that insight which is one of the highest marks of generalship!”
A Life of Gen Robert E Lee Cooke, John E 1876
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