proofs

• Miss Stevens said, “Of course not, but if Miss Hillyard had gone in, she could have seen whether the proofs were already in the room, and so provided a terminus a quo , or alternatively ad quern , for that part of the investigation.” This was really all the material evidence available, except that a large bottle of copying-ink had disappeared from the office of the College Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Allison. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
• Jesus is not a philosopher: for his proofs are his miracles, and from the first his disciples adored him. —  Napoleon Bonaparte
• Essentially they no longer receive printed proofs, they get e-proofs instead. —  Me And My Big Mouth
• All alterations, so far as practicable for the same reason, should also be made in the galley-proofs, especially those which involve an increase or decrease in the amount of matter, since changes of this nature made in the page-proof necessitate the added expense of a rearrangement of the made-up pages of type On the return of the galley-proofs to the printer, the changes indicated on the margins are made by compositors selected for the purpose, and the galleys of type and the proofs are then turned over by them to the "make-up." —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
• And yet the proofs were there, as clear as daylight. —  The Child of Pleasure

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