I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with ''she asseverated,'' and had to stop reading to get the dictionary. ❋ Arhyalon (2010)
I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with “she asseverated,” and had to stop reading to get the dictionary. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Broder asseverated, as if it were true, that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had exonerated Rove because "In fact, the prosecutor concluded that there was no crime; hence, no indictment." ❋ Unknown (2008)
I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with she asseverated, and had to stop reading to get the dictionary. ❋ DAVID BISHOP (2007)
"It is profound what has happened," Rush asseverated when I asked for his reflections on the past four decades. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“Amen!” asseverated his wife, and the daughter, Hester, or Esta, as she was called by the family, moved by the need of as much public support as possible for all of them — echoed it after her. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Now whether that word hath origin in a Greek term meaning a conflict, as the best-read boys asseverated, or whether it is nothing more than a figure of similitude, from the beating arms of a mill, such as I have seen in counties where are no waterbrooks, but folk make bread with wind — it is not for a man devoid of scholarship to determine. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
He still asseverated that it was a land of gold, and he believed that if he could get to Egypt the rest would be easy. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass, down to the commissionaire and the hovering chestnut man, who rigidly reasserted their own watchfulness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“I did, Laura!” asseverated Pin, on the brink of tears. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Have we not long ago asseverated that wisdom is only the knowledge of knowledge and of ignorance, and of nothing else? ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was asseverated by Count Gozzi, whose own plays were influenced both by fairy tales and by the Italian scenarii, that there were no more than thirty-six elemental situations for the stage. ❋ HARRY LEVIN (1968)
In the state of nature, Wise asseverated, men possessed three ❋ MERLE CURTI (1968)
Boots, chamber-maid, and waiter were collectively summoned -- all assisted in the search, and all asseverated their own integrity. ❋ Various (N/A)
In such cases there is often no certain and readily recognizable line of demarcation between the two kinds of enterprise; and an undertaking that may present all the appearance of being a purely commercial scheme, and be solemnly asseverated to be such by the Power or Powers promoting it, may turn out on closer examination to be one of great political significance and incalculable political consequence. ❋ Stanley Shaw (N/A)
As I gazed in reply, my steady eyes, the soul that kindled my smile, my open arms, all must have asseverated for me the truth of my devotion. ❋ Various (N/A)
A very few weeks ago, the Convention asseverated, in the usual acclamatory style, that they would never even listen to a proposal for diminishing the value, or stopping the currency, of any description of assignats. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)
"A.B.," he replied, "always A.B.;" and certainly, in speech and appearance, he seemed nothing better than a foremast man, although, shaking hands with me again and again, he each time asseverated that it was the hand of a gentleman. ❋ James Allan (N/A)
