real-for-true

Updated: May 23, 2025

At some past time this soap must have been of the shape and size of a building brick, but now it resembled a small dumb-bell, so worn was its middle, so nobby its ends. Then, too, my pins were, to all intents and purposes, her pins; my hair-pins her hair-pins; while worst of all, my precious, real-for-true French rouge was her rouge.

Clara Morris - Stage Confidences

Let me die and go to hell in peace." Father Leblanc knelt meekly and prayed, and the woman's weak pleadings continued, "Tony, I've been true and good and faithful to you. Don't die and leave me no better than before. Tony, I do want to be a good woman once, a real-for-true married woman. Tony, here's the priest; say yes." And she wrung her ringless hands.

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories