The remnants of what was once one of the most powerful Armies in the world are now flowing back in disorder and without hope up the mountain valleys down which they came with proud self-assurance.

Two maids pounced upon the ladies with the self-assurance of their kind and country, and led the way upstairs, while the men removed fur coats in the hall.

Political preferment and self-assurance keep some men constantly before the public eye, while others, the men of real merit, who have spent the best part of their lives in the service of their country, are often permitted by an ungrateful community to go down to their graves unhonored and unsung.

Self-confidence is a good thing in its place, but self-assurance is a quality not nearly so attractive.

"Oh! papa won't say anything," he declared, with no little self-assurance; "they are far too beautiful.

So he greeted Collins with a self-assurance and aplomb quite removed from his ordinary manner.

Is it this note that you wish to sell?" "Oh, not that," corrected Tellier, with a little offended gesture, his self-assurance back in an instant.

Therefore, eager for the unknown, she hastens to lay hold of the first rascal who comes forward, having a little self-assurance, talkativeness and good looks, and who will be for one day the ideal she has dreamed of, if he knows how to brazen it out.

His self-assurance, kindness, and determination dominated the situation.

It was the sort of letter which a very young woman will sometimes write to a man whose existence she does not understand, a little patronizing in tone and superior with the self-assurance of successful and unfeeling youth.

She thought Mrs. Fairford "bright," and wanted to be liked by her; and she was in the state of dizzy self-assurance when it seemed easy to win any sympathy she chose to seek.

All my old self-assurance back; the more arrogant if it isn't quite the real thing.

It had seemed quite natural and unaffected to her, in fact she had not at all noticed it before; but now that she knew of his great wealth, she instantly conceived a resentful idea that possibly it might come from the self-assurance of a man who knows himself much courted.

He took his small defeat with his usual imperturbable good nature, in which Sylvia not infrequently thought she detected a flavor of the unconscious self-assurance of the very rich and much-courted man.

Ray's dreadful crime of a few days past had given him an added insolence and self-assurance that complicated the problem still further.

He greeted Saltash with the quiet self-assurance of a man who treads his own ground.

I had seen some fine portraits by Lembach, but only men's; besides, I did not like his self-assurance and sketchiness, which, as I am fond of French painting, I can endure only from a Frenchman.

There was something distasteful in her mother's sudden and almost aggressive self-assurance.

With love of my own race I cling unto my country, Whatever dubious reason may protesting cry; The shame alone of all her blood bought glory, Her haughty self-assurance, conscious pride, And the ancestral faith's traditions dark, With woe have penetrated all my heart.

What charming, fearless self-assurance, what noble self-confidence in his smile, in his glance!

The main thing at the time was that something in himself responded instinctively to the higher degree of polish and self-assurance which he now for the first time was able to observe at close quarters.

He strode up to Mrs. Ingleton, confronting her with aggressive self-assurance, "Delighted to meet you, madam.

" "Not if I advise it," said Kieff, with a self-assurance that seemed to knock aside her resistance as of no account.

Say it's all right!" He spoke imperiously, meeting her scorn with a dominating self-assurance.

This card I presented with a graceful flourish of the arm to the proprietor of the establishment, whilst I said with that lofty self-assurance which is one of my finest attributes and which I have never seen equalled: "M. le Marquis is my friend.