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• Frederick himself is a pretty little man to me, veracious, courageous, invincible in his small sphere; but he does not rise into the empyrean regions, or kindle my heart round him at all; and his history, upon which there are wagon-loads of dull bad books, is the most dislocated, unmanageably incoherent, altogether dusty, barren and beggarly production of the modern Muses as given hitherto. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
• A just man, I say; and a valiant and veracious: but rugged as a wild bear; entirely inarticulate, as if dumb. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• If Stevenson's Homeric account of the Four Black Elliotts in "Weir of Hermiston" is historically veracious, we might fancy that one of their descendants would feel his activities somewhat cramped on Beacon Street, Boston. —  The Painter of "Diana of the Tides"
• No pocket of any sex would tolerate them, and we had been given to understand by veracious (?) —  Russian Rambles
• One traces and unconsciously accepts as a veracious narrative the record of a fantastic though abiding love. —  The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher

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