Did he ask after me?' 'Yes.' He looked at her again and said suspiciously: 'I suppose you didn't mention' 'Mention what?' 'Edith!' 'Yes?' He cleared his throat and then said with an effort of self-assertion that she thought at once ridiculous and touching: 'Look here, I don't wish to blame you in any way for whater arrangements you like to make in your own household.

Is the Golden Rule practicable in the modern business world? Is modesty rather than self-assertion regarding his own merits and abilities the better policy for an employee? Are substantial, home-keeping girls or girls rather fast and frivolous the more likely to obtain good husbands?

Oh, I said, it had so much woman in it,muliebrity, as well as femineity;no self-assertion, such as free suffrage introduces into every word and movement; large, vigorous nature, running back to those huge-limbed Germans of Tacitus, but subdued by the reverential training and tuned by the kindly culture of fifty generations.

It is the undue self-assertion of the part against the interests of the whole.

Yet he acted thus without self-assertion and without ostentation.

Her respect for Teddy was gradually increasing, though nothing seemed to quench her self-assertion and independence of thought and action.

John Hammond had a noble outlook: bold, without impudence or self-assertion; self-possessed, without vanity.

This is a pity, as their lilliputian self-assertion is most amusing.

Walker was a Negro who hoped to arouse his race to self-assertion.

This is the thing which redeems all didactic writing or speaking from the charge of offensive assumption and self-assertion.

It was unanimously decided to republish the obnoxious article, with comment adapted to fire the inflammable Southern heart and rouse it against any further self-assertion of the negroes in politics or elsewhere.

And from first to last throughout that interview, and subsequently to the point where Jimgrim out-maneuvered and out-played him, he relied on the German philosophy of self-assertion that teaches how to get and keep the upper hand by making yourself believe in your own super-intelligence and then speaking, acting, making plans in logical accord with that belief.

I could hardly believe my eyes, expecting to find in him something of the fire, enthusiasm, and dogmatism of his book, and seeing only a gentleman of the most gentle type, blonde, refined, and with as little self-assertion or dogmatic tone as was possible consistently with the holding of his own opinions; suggesting views rather than asserting them, and as if he had not himself come to a conclusion on the subject of conversation.

As a part of this power of merging his own individuality in that of his client was his absolute freedom from egotism, conceit, self-assertion, and personal pride of opinion.

Above all, Anglicanism was too limited; it was local, insular, national; its theory was made for its special circumstances; and he describes in a remarkable passage how, in contrast with this, there rung in his ears continually the proud self-assertion of the other side, Securus judicat orbis terrarum.

Nature's strongest force is self-assertion, and excessive self-assertion is vanity, and vanity is sinful, and

Calling the hypothesis of the absolute by the name of the 'coherence theory of truth,' he calls the problem of understanding how the complete coherence of all things in the absolute should involve as a necessary moment in its self-maintenance the self-assertion of the finite minds, a self-assertion which in its extreme form is error,he calls this problem, I say, an insoluble puzzle.

The sublime self-assertion, addressed by Prometheus to Zeus, under whose sentence he was groaning, has never before been put into such plain English.

Angelina knew that humility was the chief of the Christian virtues, and often she believed she had attained to it; but there was too much self-assertion, too much of the pride of power, in her composition, to permit her to go down into the depths, and prostrate herself in the dust as Sarah did.

In any company in which he was thrown he was sure to attract attention, and there were very few companies in which he did not take the leading part by virtue of his ability and not of his self-assertion.

In his personal bearing there is nothing of that self-assertion, that posing, which is a common defect of his distinguished countrymen.

The pagans insisted upon self-assertion because it was the essence of their creed that the gods, though strong and just, were mystic, capricious, and even indifferent.

But his pride was roused to such furious self-assertion, that his heart lay beaten down under the sweep of its cyclone.

In the first place the effort after system is called self-assertion, and the effort after width or expansion is called self-sacrifice.

The circle of his friends was small, but intimate, and his timidity with men, his suspiciousness, his lack of self-assertion, made him an easy prey to such unscrupulous opponents as Voltaire.