14 Verbs to Use for the Word asseverations
They have also added the asseveration and the attrectation, which I do not approve.
On the same voyage Augustin Pugh of the adjoining Bertie County carried seventy slaves whose manifest, though it bears no such asseveration, gives evidence that they likewise were not a trader's lot; for some of the negroes were sixty years old, and there were as many children as adults in the parcel.
We have now to deal brieflyamid conflicting asseverations it is hard to deal fairlywith the last of the vexatiously controverted episodes which need perplex our narrative.
After having witnessed the execution of his sentence on the eighteen citizens, whose asseverations he had determined not to believe, Nackee Khan immediately sent for a devout man, called Saied Hassan, who was considered the sage of the place, and, for his charities, greatly beloved by the people.
he difficulty being to discover the asseveration which they consider binding.
Therefore, disregarding the asseverations of my rascally Jehu that the remaining animal was fully equal to the task alone, I descended, and proceeded on foot.
There was not the slightest reason for doubting the asseveration of the accused on this point; her depositions had throughout been found in accordance with the facts, and the same was evidently the case in this.
" "And why did not they?" speaking with breathless panting, and forgetting my stout asseveration that the whole tale is a lie.
But the more he told himself "impossible", the more positive grew a certain perverse inner asseveration that it was quite possible.
Most commonly, for Truth needs no asseveration.
And they shook each other's hands and repeated their asseverations of friendship and esteem, but, at the same time, breathed in their hearts their curses and execrations.
If these words were true,and the Lord prefaces them with Verily, verily, Amen, Amen, which was as solemn an asseveration as any oath could bethen the Lord Jesus Christ is none other than the God of Abraham, the God of Moses, the God of the Jews, the God of the whole universe, past, present, and to come.
I understand now my father's solemn asseverations, and why Bertram brought you to me.
He did not do this from a selfish or vain ambition to have the praise of his name sounded, nor to increase the number of his addresses of gratitude, or written asseverations of affection.