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  • Who has won the triumph's evidence -- Pilate or Christ?

    The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

  • Sensation may reach its finest pitch, excitement be an unfailing fillip, and fun the leaven which leavens the camping-trip from start to finish, even though the triumph of killing for triumph's sake be left out of the play-bill.

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

  • But if he will take his stand, with poise and serenity, on spiritual truth; if he will amend his life according to spiritual laws; if he will accept failure as merely a stepping-stone to ultimate success, -- as "the triumph's evidence," -- ill fortune can establish no dominant power over his life.

    The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

  • Of our loved ones, gave triumph's rejoicing a check.

    War Poetry of the South Various

  • And it seemed to his fancies, set a-tingle in the early dawn freshness, that the rising sun, ancient symbol of youth and vigor and hope with triumph's wings, was coming to meet him.

    Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912

  • And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence

    Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904

  • And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence

    Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904

  • "And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence?"

    The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Failure, even the failure of knowledge, is triumph's evidence in these earlier days; and complete failure, the unchecked rule of evil in any form, is therefore impossible.

    Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

  • The "apparent failure" of knowledge, like every apparent failure, is "a triumph's evidence for the fulness of the days."

    Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

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