| You need no other proof of this but experience, to stop the mouth of any gainsayer. |
| About the middle of the twelfth century came, so far as the world now knows, the first gainsayer of this general theory. |
| Nor is it open to the gainsayer to contend that they were kings indeed but of some chance city. |
| My words may seem a jest to the gainsayer, but I call the god Mut to witness that what I say is true. |
| If, again, it is objected that in any case the lady's gift was money thrown away, it is not so easy to convince the gainsayer. |
| Should any doubt the actuality of these essential moments, Cyril conveyed the sense that the events themselves in their entirety would aggressively rebuke the gainsayer. |
