Asserted

Examples

• A cursory examination of the latter revealed no mortal injuries and after a brief rest he asserted that he felt fit to attempt the return voyage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Having now asserted my independence in a proper manner, I may come to how do you find yourself, and I hope you're pretty well. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• God knows, I put my trust in his vows, and believe his asserted faith--but for that, I would not seek what I am now resolved to attain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Already the common sense of the natural political map had asserted itself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This agency of the supreme Being we know to have been asserted by [As father Malebranche and other Cartesians. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Whatever might be the truth about all this misery, there was one dread which asserted itself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I believe it scarce will be asserted, that the first species of reasoning alone is ever the cause of any action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Human nature asserted itself, now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am not an angel, I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The helpless condition of the servant had made the police distrustful of his asserted recognition of his master. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• O' course it can't,' asserted Sam: 'I know'd that, afore I came. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Not that she is so, but that the most is made, as the Honourable Bob Stables has frequently asserted upon oath, of all her points. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It has been asserted that no vessel has yet been made to successfully fly unless made on the balloon principle, and Count Zeppelin's boat is on that principle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It has been asserted by some city health officials that many cases of typhoid fever in cities can be traced to the unsanitary conditions existing in summer resorts. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Oh, no--it's merely a bore, she asserted, gathering together the ends of her feather scarf. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He recapitulated the statements which Becky had made, pointed out the probabilities of their truth, and asserted his own firm belief in her innocence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Through a long, hard, vigorous opposition the virtues of billiards have asserted themselves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her sister asserted the family gentility by flouting the poor swain as he loitered about the prison for glimpses of his dear. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It is commonly asserted, that without self-denial there is no virtue, and that the greater the self-denial the greater the virtue. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was whisperingly asserted that footsteps, in the dead of night, had been heard descending the garret stairs, and patrolling the house. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He took enough to kill a horse, and asserted it had as good an effect as morphine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And as the nineteenth century went on, the plain logic of the new situation asserted itself more clearly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is nothing so absurd, says Cicero, which has not sometimes been asserted by some philosophers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He then with a lazy grandeur asserted his rights as lord of Pubsey and Co. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mingling with the coward band there assembled, they reviled their admirable leader, and asserted their own superiority and exemption. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They asserted you would not come, she said. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It has often been asserted, but the assertion is incapable of proof, that the amount of variation under nature is a strictly limited quantity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It has been of late asserted, that the honour of completing the experiment with the electrical kite does not belong to Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Presently Mr. Wood said-- I cannot proceed without some investigation into what has been asserted, and evidence of its truth or falsehood. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In the midst of this appalling ruin of the monuments of man's power, nature asserted her ascendancy, and shone more beauteous from the contrast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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