Asserting

Examples

• Now that medical attendance was no longer indispensable, I played the first move in the game by asserting myself against the doctor. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But there was a strange tension, an emphasis, as if they were asserting their wishes, against the truth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They were solid, too, in asserting that no prohibition could prevent their exportation, when private people found any advantage in exporting them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He too seemed, by his manners, to have entered a little more on the way of humility; he was quieter, and less self-asserting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was getting stronger, it was re-asserting itself, the inviolable moon. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her heart tried to persist in asserting that George Osborne was worthy and faithful to her, though she knew otherwise. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A Buffer, suddenly astounding the other three, by detaching himself, and asserting individuality, inquires: 'How discovered, and why? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The groom and gamekeeper affirmed to the contrary--both asserting that, if hers was not a clear case of hydrophobia, there was no such disease. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Biddy, said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, I must request to know what you mean by this? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Edited by Jeremy