" "Sure, Mister," Nick said, with great positiveness.

" Now, nothing vexed the old gentleman more than to hear William Pitt called by his tardy honors; and yet, unwilling to give up what he thought his political opinions, he exclaimed, with an unanswerable positiveness of argument, "Billy Pitt, sir, was the minister, sir; butbutbuthe was our minister, sir.

But, with much positiveness and indignation, she refused to give her consent, declaring that my wife could as well do without her husband as she could do without her boy.

Or had he been patient with her difficulties and solved them with terrible positiveness?

But this abrupt positiveness did not convince.

He ceased to use words like "certainly," "undoubtedly," or anything that gave the air of positiveness to an opinion, and said "I apprehend," or "I conceive," a thing to be so and so.

; infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness, unquestionableness^. gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res judicata [Lat.], ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer; doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist^, Sir Oracle; ipse dixit [Lat.].

" "Indeed!" "Yes, sir!" asserted the little man, with surprising positiveness.

He has avoided such phrases as 'absurd,' 'impossible,' 'preposterous,' that his opponent has dealt in so freely, but he has weighed and balanced the evidence piece by piece; he has carefully guarded his language so as never to let the positiveness of his conclusion exceed what the premises will warrant; he has dealt with the subject judicially and with a full consciousness of the responsibility of his position [Endnote 77:1].

And, lo! in this very negativeness lies the whole secret of the multifarious positiveness of tails.

That author says, and repeats with great positiveness, that the Sun was in Peru a secondary divinity, and that the supreme deity, the Creator and ruler of the world, was Viracocha.

Clouds in vain strive to imitate it; they are made of slighter stuff; they can be blunt or ragged, but they cannot have that solid positiveness.

She shook her head with eager positiveness.

"I'm sorry to contradict you, General," I asserted with equal positiveness, "but I have myself seen their bodies.

He spoke with great positiveness, I remember, having been, you see, in both the Cuban and Philippine campaigns.

Its positiveness of statement is puzzling, when tested by what is known from other sources of the nature of the discoveries and inventions of that early time; and were there reason to question Bacon's truth, it would seem as if he had mistaken his dreams for facts.

"For I believe not positiveness therein essential to salvation.

To answer with positiveness is difficult; but this much may be readily concededthat a belief in the decadence of conversation is natural to those who have specially cultivated Links with the Past; who grew up in the traditions of Luttrell and Mackintosh, and Lord Alvanley and Samuel Rogers; who have felt Sydney Smith's irresistible fun, and known the overwhelming fullness of Lord Macaulay.

The verbose positiveness of the doctor did not permit any doubt whatever....

Three raps are here again instantly heardthe characteristics of the sounds in this instance being rapidity and energy, or positiveness.

" Happily my experience enables me to remove all doubt as to the locality of the Spirit's 'home,' and to state with positiveness its exact location.

Love's worthwhat is love worth, anyway?" He did not answer the question with any degree of positiveness, and he went to bed wishing that he had never seen the valley of Santa Clara.

"That's tattooin', if ever there was tattooin'; an', what's more," she went on, nodding her head with great positiveness, "I know who done it, leastways I know part of 'is name . . .

"D'ye think he'd sooner stay in California!" She nodded her head with positiveness.

Either mode is here correct, the indicative expressing greater positiveness, and the subjunctive more doubt, in the supposition.