Sentence Examples

1. He was accused of having a delightful voice, and a perfect knowledge of music which was properly denied and that he knew nothing of the matter, and had no voice at all, roundly asserted.
2. Yet his dominant nature asserted itself, and he had first to thrash them into an acknowledgment of his superiority and leadership.
3. His free nature asserted itself, and he showed his teeth and snarled fearlessly in the face of the wrathful god.
4. With much asserted effort, she forced her attention to his eyes where she saw the lone hunter who admired the harmless peasant alone in the wood and, at once, she doubted that such a man could be responsible for all the terror beset on her kin.
5. Many said your father had only to show himself to crush the charge against him many others said he would not appear while some asserted that they had seen him start for Brussels and others went to the police-office to inquire if he had taken out a passport.
6. I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a dominant spirit asserted itself.
7. He asserted them, adding insult to injury where most tried to brush them up under the carpet.
8. They asserted a society that probes pitilessly at secrets until all is apparent.
9. The steamer passed along near the shores, but the savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity, but are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance.
10. He said it was very reasonable to think, not only that the species of men were originally much larger, but also that there must have been giants in former ages, which, as it is asserted by history and tradition, so it has been confirmed by huge bones and skulls casually dug up in several parts of the kingdom, far exceeding the common dwindled race of man in our days.