Did you know that MLK used the word gainsaid actually "gainsaying" in his Letter From a Birmingham Jail?. From Wordnik.com. [Racism over, black people say.] Reference
But what's this "sense of revulsion" that has come over Ann, just from a chance encounter with "gainsaid"?. From Wordnik.com. ["It cannot be gainsaid..."] Reference
That the argument is effective cannot be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
This was perfectly lawful, and could not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Donald's test of impecuniosity could not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
It appeals to common-sense and it cannot be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
"And a boast that cannot be gainsaid," said Mrs. Hill. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
The Emperor was not to be gainsaid, and the fleet set sail. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
It could not be gainsaid that Parloe's initials were there. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
The advance was indeed costly, but it could not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
It cannot be gainsaid that the lifelessness and emptiness of the. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
But with the perversity of fever Cheniston would not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
Then Erik rose up and gainsaid the project with contrary reasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Ned Newton possessed traits of caution that could not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
It would seem, logically, that this statement could not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
But that Mr. Blaine is an orator of the first order cannot be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The general probability of his statements could not, unfortunately be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
But he was not to be gainsaid, and so I had reluctantly to be carried into bed. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
The plain fact that he hadn't got twenty guineas in the world could not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Only the discoveries of recent years have brought proof too positive to be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
On hearing this mighty marvel, the Brahmana Dhaumya, said, 'This should not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Nevertheless, the fact cannot be gainsaid that to move forward, we have to use both legs. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The squire was not used to being gainsaid, and the more she refused him the more he wanted her. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
This is one legal nicety which has never been gainsaid, whether one likes it or does not like it. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Eisenman: Christiane Amanpour's God's Warriors, "the Jews," and "the Occupied Territories": Is this for Real?] Reference
We are thus brought to a striking conclusion, the essential soundness of which cannot be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
The Bull Court is a world to itself, with laws which spring from its own nature and cannot be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
And so the rest of us follow suit, determined that our beliefs are sacrosanct and must not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Why is everyone determined to be outraged all the time?] Reference
That the liquor selling was causing a festering sore in the community of Polktown could not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
That these anniversaries and wakes led to much unseemly revelling we have evidence that cannot be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
"The day was fixed and cannot be gainsaid," answered the Justiciar, who was sitting at meat with others in the hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
The Hand which set the orbits of the universe created the laws of Truth and Justice and these never could be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
Sorely she gainsaid it, but then came Gernot, her brother, and Giselher, the youth, and lovingly bade her ease her heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
It may be doubted whether the Sultan's writ would have run in either of his new provinces had their conqueror gainsaid it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Dalton were all that she had heard, and that if she should really prove her son's choice, he should not be gainsaid by her. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
The fact, however, ignore it as we may, cannot be gainsaid: no man-made or woman-made "emancipation" will change nature's law. From Wordnik.com. [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference
The French Encyclopædists took hold of social, moral and juridical questions with an unsparing vigor that could not be gainsaid. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
"'Where the foot rests, that is home,' is a saying among my people; a truth, that so far as my experience goes, has never been gainsaid.". From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
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