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Even the old travelers, who saw the phoenix expire in her odoriferous nest, whence the chick soon flew forth regenerated, or who found dead lions slain by the quills of some "fretful porcupine," or who knew that the stare of the basilisk was death even those who saw unicorns graze and who heard mermaids sing were veracious when compared with the explorers of railroad routes across the continent.
"I should like to speak to you er about your brother, Miss Brown," he began, "if you can spare me the time, of course. I trust I do not er intrude or presume. He is a charming little man but er I fear not veracious. May I accompany you a little on your way? I am er much attracted to your er family. I er should like to know you all better.
And to tell the truth in this deeper sense, that is, genuinely to face realities and to refuse to be put off with shams, to see through the plausibilities and to detect the hollowness of moral and social pretences and conventionalities, to have, in short, the spiritual and moral instinct for reality, is a much harder thing than to be verbally veracious.
Michael, where the devil cuts a very good figure under the angel, in memory of this adventure now consigned to these veracious histories. King Louis The Eleventh was a merry fellow, loving a good joke, and the interests of his position as king, and those of the church on one side he lived jovially, giving chase to soiled doves as often as to hares, and other royal game.
Of the principal persons put to death, no one, it was asserted, had been more devoted to the ancient church than was the brave Count Egmont, who, for his famous victories in the service of Spain, could never be forgotten in veracious history any more than could be the cruelty of his execution. The land had been made desolate, continued the Queen, with fire, sword, famine, and murder.
Thus a vast number of well- authenticated cases of veracious visions will be required before science could admit that it might be well to investigate hitherto unacknowledged faculties of the human mind. The evidence can never be other than the word of the seer, with whatever value may attach to the testimony of those for whom he "sees," and describes, persons and places unknown to himself.
These conclusions, to my own mind, are irresistible. No theory which consists with the common honesty of the writer can bring these books down to a later date. And I cannot doubt the honesty of the writer. His writings prove him to be a careful, painstaking, veracious historian. In many slight matters this accuracy appears.
The room looked like Thorley's this morning." Mrs. Wintermill could not stand it any longer. "What have you done with them, my dear?" Anne enjoyed being veracious. "I took a whole truckload up to my sister- in-law. She's going to have a baby." Her visitor stiffened. "I was not aware that you had a sister-in-law. Mr. Thorpe was especially free from relatives." "Oh, this is George's wife.
There is a strangeness in the story of "The Man Who Knew" which brings it into the category of veracious history.
Her extraordinary beauty, however, had already made observers numerous and given the habitues of the Pincian plenty to talk about. The echoes of their commentary reached Rowland's ears; but he had little taste for random gossip, and desired a distinctly veracious informant. He had found one in the person of Madame Grandoni, for whom Mrs. Light and her beautiful daughter were a pair of old friends.
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