Thirteen cut in with arrogant assertiveness; "all we've been waiting for, hoping for, praying forthe end of the ruling classes, extinction of the accursed aristocrats, subjugation of the thrice-damned bourgeois, the triumph of the proletariat, all at a single stroke, swift, subtle, and sure!

The door opened queerly; slowly, and with a timidity not at all in keeping with the blundering assertiveness of the Pilgrim.

Churchill had grave and even gross faults, a certain coarseness, a certain hard boyish assertiveness, a certain lack of magnanimity, a certain peculiar patrician vulgarity.

" The new arrivals entered the room gaily with the breezy assertiveness of persons who were assured of their welcome and very much at home.

Markham walked in silence for some moments, speaking after a while with a cool assertiveness.

His dogmatic self-assertiveness which had before been found so irritating was laid aside; his manner was subdued, his tone was sympathetic as he apologized for all the annoyance to which his host and hostess were being put.

" "There is that in her face which maketh argument useless," Fra Paolo said low to his friend Santorio, for he was himself no mean physician, having contributed discoveries of utmost importance to the medical science, "and there is a physical weakness combined with this mental assertiveness which doth make it a danger to oppose her beliefs.