"Gospel truth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... love me any more! So that is your boasted German constancy of which you are so proud! These are your vows which I took for gospel truth!" ...
— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau
... guy like Andrews or Sergeant Coffin or them. They can suck around after 'Y' men, an' officers an' get on the inside track, an' all we can do is stand up an' salute an' say 'Yes, lootenant' an' 'No, lootenant' an' let 'em ride us all they goddam please. Ain't that gospel truth, corporal?" ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... no yarn!" declared the veteran puncher in an ominous voice. "It's gospel truth. I'll tell you ...
— The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley - or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery • Willard F. Baker
... loving sympathy to the different persons in the tale, and the natural distresses in which they are involved, without suspecting, for a moment, that by so much as a breathing of exaggeration or of embellishment the pure gospel truth of the narrative could have been sullied. She listened, in a kind of breathless stupor, to my frank explanation—that not part only, but the whole, of this natural tale was a pure invention. Scorn and indignation flashed from her eyes. She regarded herself as one who had been hoaxed and swindled; ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... what would we not gladly have given and done for but a single Gospel truth in our distress and trials of conscience! True, when one was discouraged or perplexed he was advised to seek and follow the counsel of some intelligent and judicious mind; but such judicious one who might assist with his counsel was nowhere ...
— Epistle Sermons, Vol. III - Trinity Sunday to Advent • Martin Luther
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