Example Sentences

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So the wizards at the flower show can guess again if they like, for nobody who knows the Bible will gainsay them.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will gainsay nought of what thou utterest here.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

For that we have my grandfather's word; and no one, I think, will gainsay it.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

"Then shall he bear my standard," said the bishop, "and none will gainsay it," and so he turned to me.

From A Thane of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Certainly these two have so ill-used him that if he is going to sing improper songs in self-defense, this is the time to do it; no one will gainsay that.

From Look Back on Happiness by Wiking, Paula