"Confirmatory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Captain Miles joyously, delighted at such confirmatory proofs that his hopes of righting the Josephine were not unduly sanguine. "As soon as we get the foremast clear she'll come up all standing, never fear! Can't you see how the poor thing is trying hard ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson
... as to particulars in this version, but the main features are well known and vary but little. Some of these stories are termed mythical, in others the truth is never questioned, and together they have a deep hold on the Hawaiian mind. Further and confirmatory information may be obtained from fishermen and others, and by visiting the market the varieties here mentioned ...
— Hawaiian Folk Tales - A Collection of Native Legends • Various
... thought it his best plan to seek out one or other of those gentlemen, both to report proceedings and learn confirmatory tidings concerning Squire Woodcock, touching whose fate he did not like ...
— Israel Potter • Herman Melville
... again conferred together for several minutes, frequently directing their glances at the Flying Fish, as though searching her for confirmatory evidence of her power to enforce her crew's demands; and at length the Russian skipper, facing about, waved ...
— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... Further confirmatory evidence is given in the Globe, copied into the Times of 22 July. "It will scarcely be believed that the coat of the great naval hero, together with his cocked hat, and an immense quantity of his property, was, as it were, mortgaged for the sum of 120 pounds, yet such was the fact. ...
— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton
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