All 16 Uses of
assert
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'Excuse me,' I responded; 'you, my good friend, are a striking evidence against that assertion.†
Chpt 7
- I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness.†
Chpt 10
- 'How can you say I am harsh, you naughty fondling?' cried the mistress, amazed at the unreasonable assertion.†
Chpt 10
- There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible — still she asserted she caught their shining.†
Chpt 12
- As he spoke he took the servant to the door, and then repeated his demand to know her reasons for such an assertion.†
Chpt 12
- It appeared dry and cold; but at the bottom was dotted in with pencil an obscure apology, and an entreaty for kind remembrance and reconciliation, if her proceeding had offended him: asserting that she could not help it then, and being done, she had now no power to repeal it.†
Chpt 13
- Can I trust your assertion, Isabella?†
Chpt 14 *
- It is a foolish story to assert that Catherine could not bear to see me; and as to surprising her, I don't desire it: you must prepare her — ask her if I may come.†
Chpt 14
- It asserted its own tranquillity, which seemed a pledge of equal quiet to its former inhabitant.†
Chpt 16
- I was much vexed at her and the servant for their mutual revelations; having no doubt of Linton's approaching arrival, communicated by the former, being reported to Mr. Heathcliff; and feeling as confident that Catherine's first thought on her father's return would be to seek an explanation of the latter's assertion concerning her rude-bred kindred.†
Chpt 18
- 'Oh, I'll ask YOU, uncle,' cried Miss Cathy, recollecting the housekeeper's assertion.†
Chpt 21
- I suffered her to enjoy it a while; then I expostulated: deriding and ridiculing all Mr. Heathcliff's assertions about his son, as if I were certain she would coincide.†
Chpt 22
- Master Heathcliff, much irritated, asserted her relation was false.†
Chpt 23
- I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation.†
Chpt 24
- I couldn't affirm that you are,' observed my young lady, wondering at his pertinacious assertion of what was evidently an untruth.†
Chpt 26
- Though he seldom before had revealed this state of mind, even by looks, it was his habitual mood, I had no doubt: he asserted it himself; but not a soul, from his general bearing, would have conjectured the fact.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed