How To Use good authority In A Sentence
- I have it on good authority from a web whore that poutine is pronounced "disco fries" in the big apple. Boing Boing: February 2, 2003 - February 8, 2003 Archives
- It should be added, what Mr Holmes tells us on good authority, that the vice of ebriety was not among Mozart's failings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
- I have it on good authority that he is going to be promoted.
- I have it on good authority
- The Freemen of this Province understand, from good authority, that there is a quantity of tea consigned to your house by the East India Company, which is destructive to the happiness of every well-wisher to his country. Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
- I have it on good authority that there's no way this light can cause skin cancer.
- I have it on good authority that spotted grunters are coming on the bite in all our local estuaries right now.
- I have been told on good authority that in the town (lodgings, as opposed to a college) one can live quite decently on 16 or at most 20 crowns: also that sometimes three or four students, or more, take a house or a room, and then club together and engage a cook, and that their weekly bills scarcely amount to a teston < 1/5 of a crown > a head. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
- I have it on good authority, meanwhile, that Manny is an eligible bachelor.
- I lately learned that the principle of one of our newest concentrating machines, the Frue vanner, was known in India and the East centuries ago; and we have it on good authority -- that of Pliny -- that gold saving by amalgamation with mercury was practised before the Christian era. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
