Assertion

Examples

• Remember what I told you on the moor--and ask yourself what my assertion is worth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There could be but one suitable reply to your assertion, Mr. Clayton, she said icily, and I regret that I am not a man, that I might make it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Now act as you please: write and contradict my assertion--expose my falsehood as soon as you like. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He said he was a Jew, but there was no distinctive feature to verify this assertion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I owe to her--what I would concede to no man alive--a PROOF of the truth of my assertion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I doubt the correctness of the assertion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All the jewellers consulted, at once confirmed the Colonel's assertion that he possessed one of the largest diamonds in the world. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There is the fact of the funeral at Limmeridge, and there is the assertion of the inscription on the tomb. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• None of those present ventured to make any remark on this assertion, although all felt that it was merely a random guess, based on the sanguine dream of an inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This family fiction was the family assertion of itself against her services. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was most convenient to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Now it is a matter of fact that in the gospels all that body of theological assertion which constitutes Christianity finds little support. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We could only hope to succeed in throwing a serious doubt on the assertion of her death, a doubt which nothing short of a legal inquiry can settle. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Both assertions were gratuitously made, and both were false. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have already assured you of my fidelity, said Raymond with disdainful coldness, triple assertions will avail nothing where one is despised. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Such assertions had a certain element of truth in them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• How could she deny that credit to his assertions in one instance, which she had been obliged to give in the other? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It will be a comfort to me to speak where belief has gone beforehand, and where I shall not seem to be offering assertions of my own honesty. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For Gerald came down like a sledge-hammer with his assertions, anything the little German said was merely contemptible rubbish. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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