Example Sentences

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Their well-approved prowess by none could be denied.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

At which the angry mother turned on the well-approved physician as if he had caused all the trouble that he had come to cure. 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

So his heart was uplifted with great joy and delight at that thought; that he was now a well-approved knight-champion, worthy of his knighthood.

From The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Pyle, Howard

At first William was for making a clean sweep of the Honours' List, or limiting it to two or three well-approved recipients.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

And all this because the great, broadminded majority of the people is prudent enough to show deference only to well-ascertained and well-approved truths?

From An Enemy of the People by Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson)