It is also strongly corroborative of the statement in the text, that clergymen generally, and especially those who are most accustomed to the use of extemporaneous prayers and sermons, find most ease in replying to an opponent on any subject that is familiar to them.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall
Murray, the traitor, sent us to Fano as a 'delightful summer residence for an English family,' and we found it uninhabitable from the heat, vegetation scorched with paleness, the very air swooning in the sun, and the gloomy looks of the inhabitants sufficiently corroborative of their words, that no drop of rain or dew ever falls there during the summer.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
If Mr. Buffkin's expression was meant to be corroborative it was a distinct failure.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay