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We must wake up to the iron veracities of this war," he wrote, "and then face them not merely without flinching but with redoubled energy of will and effort.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this aspect of it, then, I say it is the simplest and nakedest of lovely veracities.

From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by Ruskin, John

On the contrary, a canal or cattle piece of Cuyp's had many veracities about it; but they were, at best, truths of the ditch and dairy.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John

For who had thought before her of making women's stitches write or paint a great historical event, crowded with homely details which now are dubbed archaeological veracities?

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman

To spoil a child is no easy task, for Nature is all the time working in behalf of the childish virtues and veracities, and is gently correcting the abnormalities of education.

From Humanly Speaking by Crothers, Samuel McChord