well-authenticated

Upon this occasion a well-authenticated anecdote is told of him, which gives us a deep insight into the character of the man, and the feelings which induced him to abandon the altar for the sword.

Chris Rodda: "Debunk U" Study Guide -- Lesson 1 2010

He died in 899, and no other well-authenticated king of that whole first millennium is so revered or honoured, or even remembered.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

Upon this occasion a well-authenticated anecdote is told of him, which gives us a deep insight into the character of the man, and the feelings which induced him to abandon the altar for the sword.

Chris Rodda: "Debunk U" Study Guide -- Lesson 1 2010

Do you want good, well-authenticated barbarities — good and well-attested massacres, rivers of blood which have actually flowed — fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, infants at the breast, who have in reality had their throats cut, and been heaped on one another?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The cook too had terrified her by the most well-authenticated stories of the disappearance of this and that young man of the neighbourhood.

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

That the fear of man often remains excessively strong in the carnivora is proved from well-authenticated cases in which the lioness, in the vicinity of towns where the large game had been unexpectedly driven away by fire-arms, has been known to assuage the paroxysms of hunger by devouring her own young.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

I believe that these clam mRNAs were the first really well-authenticated case of specific translational control.

Tim Hunt - Autobiography 2002

Up to this moment I have stated, so far as I know, nothing but well-authenticated facts, and the immediate conclusions which they force upon the mind.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

There was a vague, though well-authenticated rumour among us that Shatov's wife had at one time had a liaison with Nikolay Stavrogin, in Paris, and just about two years ago, that is when Shatov was in America.

The Possessed 2003

To all which I could only say that the thing had been actually known to happen, and that there were several well-authenticated instances of people having died and come to life again — instances which no man in his senses could doubt.

Erewhon 2003