as a matter of fact

• “There could not be as a matter of fact any doubt as to the proper order of the "Apologies", the first is quoted in the second (iv, 2; vi, 5; viii, 1).”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “There was one of those — a supposedly very advanced type of mind-reader, as a matter of fact — about which she could get detailed first-hand information without going farther than the Bank of Rienne.”

  The Complete Federation Of The Hub

• “Bill Friday would have been concerned with any legislation and, as a matter of fact I know that he was, it was during that period of time when the effort was being made to establish a medical school at East Carolina University, which created a great deal of controversy.”

  Oral History Interview with Robert W. (Bob) Scott, April 4, 1990. Interview L-0193. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “Most German Catholics were very apprehensive for the future welfare of their religion in the ancient fatherland; as a matter of fact it was Protestant Prussia, the birthplace of Kant and the source of Hegelianism, that had accomplished the unity of Germany.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “It is a common saying with old Boston families that their ancestors came to America in the “Arbella” with Governor Winthrop, but as a matter of fact there were at least fifteen vessels that brought colonists to Massachusetts in 1630, and I cannot discover that any lists of their passengers have been preserved.”

  The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “The English engineers have as a matter of fact discovered,”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “By a rare coincidence this very free interpretation could be made to apply to an actuality at the time the “letter” was received, but as a matter of fact it came from quite a different source to the black fellow who had engaged to let some students of the aboriginal character know when the next corrobboree would take place.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• “For many generations it was held that the restoration of sculpture as a fine art was due to Italy, and specifically to Niccolo Pisano, but as a matter of fact the task was accomplished in France a century before his time.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “Meanwhile, it is as a matter of fact chosen by the process I have not over-respectfully referred to as the counting of noses; and, moreover, by an unwritten law more binding than any in the Statute Book, that counting of noses is with us localized.”

  'Tis Sixty Years Since

• “He also told a lady who applied to him for infor mation that cats do not as a matter of fact go to heaven, though they have, he added, souls of a sort.”

  A room of one's own

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