As every one attending courts knows, this is an almost intuitive movement in a witness; he thinks it corroborates him somehow.
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald
"Month" is called in the Yucateco language "U," which means also "the moon;" and this corroborates the presumption that the Indians went on from the computation of lunations to determine the course of the sun, calling the months "moons."
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I."
John L. Stephens
I have been surprised to find how completely a study of Knox's own works corroborates the views of Dr. Robertson and Lord Hailes.
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang