204 adjectives to describe assertion

These bold assertions could not fail to excite very general attention.

But there was one in the council who could not rest satisfied with such a partial vengeance on the white strangers; and his fiery eloquence, and false assertions and insinuations, prevailed over the rest of the Chiefs to disregard every treaty, and every obligation that ought to have bound them to the settlers of New Plymouth, and to include them also in their savage scheme of massacre and plunder.

Having him with her will prove, as no mere assertions can, that all the rights are on her side and the 'wrongs' on mine.

And the same vulgar prejudice, which induces people to retain an accustomed remedy upon bare assertion and presumption, either of ignorance or partiality, will, in like manner, oppose the introduction of any innovation in practice with asperity, and not unfrequently with a quantum sufficit of scrutiny and abuse, unless, indeed, it be supported by authorities of still greater weight and consideration.

I wonder why," she went on, half- musingly, before I could make an attempt to persuade her to qualify her rather sweeping assertion.

The girls were silent a while, seriously considering this startling assertion.

Formidable sounds, and furious declamations, confident assertions, and lofty periods, may affect the young and unexperienced; and, perhaps, the gentleman may have contracted his habits of oratory by conversing more with those of his own age, than with such as have had more opportunities of acquiring knowledge, and more successful methods of communicating their sentiments.

It was nothing but a direct assertion, or mere confirmation of the clause which fixed the ratio of taxes and representation.

Believe me, there is great, very great, danger in these broad unqualified assertions that Skelton deals in.

It needs no compilation of fact nor any dogmatic assertion on the part of the Editor of the GUIDE to attest that fact.

In point of brevity, the latter has the advantage, but in nothing else; for, as a general rule for NOUNS AND PRONOUNS, this old brief assertion is very defective; and, as a rule for "THE SYNTAX OF VERBS," under which head it has been oftener ranked, it is entirely useless and inapplicable.

But I was stopped by a round assertion that no good poetry had appeared since Dr. Johnson's time.

"The 'Pax' Society of Priests immediately wrote to the commander of the prisoners' camp, and received this reply: 'The ridiculous assertion of a Berlin paper that fingers had been found in the pockets of Belgian civilians in this camp is false.

That, in fact, it did prevail is clear not only from the constant assertions of German statesmen and of the German Press, but from contemporary observations made by the representatives of a State not itself involved in either of the opposing combinations.

The result, however, did not mean that the President's ideas as to the terms of peace were repudiated, but that his practical assertion, that refusal to accept his policies was unpatriotic, was repudiated by the American people.

From the middle of the eighteenth century until the end of the French Revolution the masses everywhere were influenced by the emotional, and at times hysterical, abstractions of the French encyclopedists; and that these had influenced thought in the American colonies is readily shown in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, with its unqualified assertion of the equality of men and the absolute right of self-determination.

You only know, and the world only knows, that Germany made the vague general assertion that she was "exercising a moderating influence at Vienna."

In view of the many loose and inaccurate assertions regarding the air-raids, it is agreeable to meet with a statement that may be unreservedly accepted.

This will be less precise than the definite assertions of allegory; but for that reason it will be more deeply felt.

I would I knew the motive of your singular assertions, Mr Wilder?"

These, however, ought to be esteemed idle assertions and idle threats.

"But, though I do not ask for gratitude, I think I have been sufficiently a loser to disregard such a monstrous assertion as that I am selfish.

These louts cannot be informed or argued with; they are interested in no one but themselves, and naked self-assertion is their only idea of political argument.

Should those scenes unfortunately recur, the parties to the contest may count on a faithful performance of the duties incumbent on us as a neutral nation, and our own citizens may equally rely on the firm assertion of their neutral rights.

But when the power is affirmed, and something else is denied, the words are written separately; as, "The Christian apologist can not merely expose the utter baseness of the infidel assertion, but he has positive ground for erecting an opposite and confronting assertion in its place."Dr.

204 adjectives to describe  assertion