With all due respect to the labor leaders, who are not to be blamed for volubly asseverating otherwise, terrorism is a well-defined and eminently successful policy of the labor unions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
One may say that linguistics has no choice but to presuppose what it can only name (without asserting — or asseverating). ❋ Unknown (2008)
His quick conclusion was to explain his absence this evening by a second invitation which had come later, also by asseverating that the Griffiths being potentially in charge of his material welfare, it was becoming more and more of a duty rather than an idle, evasive pleasure to desert her in this way at their command. ❋ Unknown (2004)
If an article were missing Beethoven would declare that he knew just where to put his hand upon it; and then, when two or three days 'search failed to discover its whereabouts, he would storm at the servants, asseverating that they hid his things away on purpose to annoy him. ❋ Francis Jameson Rowbotham (N/A)
This attitude of his had not troubled me before, but I was annoyed at it now, and I retaliated by asseverating my affection for ❋ Various (N/A)
It was only by addressing his reason in repeated arguments, and by solemnly asseverating my entire fidelity, that I induced him to yield. ❋ Various (N/A)
He was sentenced to death by parliament on the 4th March, and died asseverating to the last that he had done ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Wade's hand, with the voices of the men coming back to her, hoarse, fragmentary, ejaculatory, reciting Creed's offences asseverating that they had expected nothing else, was like a nightmare to Judith. ❋ Alice MacGowan (N/A)
Pépe el Lagarto was pleading his innocence of the only thing which he counted sin, and asseverating his devotion to the only being he loved; and this, condensed, is the story to which Mrs. Brundage attached all meanings but the right one. ❋ Oliver Fleming (N/A)
Could we see as cogent a motive for asseverating his guilt as we find for his insisting upon his innocence, we should lend as much credence to the one as to the other. ❋ Melvin Linwood Severy (N/A)
But as his voice grew stronger, instead of weaker, at every repetition of the phrase, doubts were entertained of his veracity; and a surgical inspection showed beyond cavil, that he was laboring under a hallucination, and asseverating with needless energy what was not strictly true. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
Evelina ran it -- and then one of them started on it, and the other ran and caught up with her -- and then one burred for some time on thee-e-e-e-e, while the other ran up and down, still asserting as rapidly as possible, and insisting boldly, and stoutly asseverating, "I love only thee!" ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Afterwards he ate the most astonishing dinner imaginable, loudly asseverating that he was as right as nine-pence and sick of slops. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
I think I am right in saying, in asseverating, in committing myself to the statement that his has been a night which none of us present here will ever forget. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Georgie cried day and night, merely asseverating that she hated Joe, and loved Ma, and she wished people would let her alone. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
The laws were followed by authoritative statements from over ninety reports of committees, bureaus of statistics, commissioners of hygiene, and government inspectors, both in this country and in all the civilized countries of Europe, asseverating that long hours of labor are dangerous for women, primarily because of their special physical organization. ❋ Edith Wyatt (1915)
To extract from the great and shining ones of political life commendations of Certina; to beguile statesmen who had never tasted that strange concoction into asseverating their faith in the nostrum's infallibility for any and all ailments; to persuade into fulsome print solemnly asinine Senators and unwarily flattered Congressmen -- that was the touchstone of his living. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)
What might be urged as the greatest imperfection of Lynch's polemic, its too great wealth of detail, had not escaped the attention of the able author, who excuses the diffuseness to which he is compelled by asseverating his determination to follow Giraldus closely to the end. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
On his return, when he asked to be admitted, they felled him dead, even while he was asseverating that he was the king. ❋ Louis Ginzberg (1913)
No man ever had a more effective manner of asseverating, or made promises with more solemn protestations, or observed them less. ❋ Unknown (1909)
