All 9 Uses of
assert
in
Anna Karenina
- "No," he said; "I would point out the fact that if, as Pripasov directly asserts, perception is based on sensation, then we are bound to distinguish sharply between these two conceptions."†
Part 1
- Then he recalled the scandal with a sharper, to whom he had lost money, and given a promissory note, and against whom he had himself lodged a complaint, asserting that he had cheated him.†
Part 1
- Alexey Alexandrovitch asserted and believed that he had never in any previous year had so much official business as that year.†
Part 2
- How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert….†
Part 3
- "I never did assert it," thought Konstantin Levin.†
Part 3 *
- In spite of the village elder's assertions about the compressibility of hay, and its having settled down in the stacks, and his swearing that everything had been done in the fear of God, Levin stuck to his point that the hay had been divided without his orders, and that, therefore, he would not accept that hay as fifty loads to a stack.†
Part 3
- In spite of his assertion to the contrary, she was firmly persuaded that he was as much a Christian as she, and indeed a far better one; and all that he said about it was simply one of his absurd masculine freaks, just as he would say about her broderie anglaise that good people patch holes, but that she cut them on purpose, and so on.†
Part 5
- He asked for supper, and began telling her about the races; but in his tone, in his eyes, which became more and more cold, she saw that he did not forgive her for her victory, that the feeling of obstinacy with which she had been struggling had asserted itself again in him.†
Part 7
- "But the point is, my dear fellow, that there may be cases when the government does not carry out the will of the citizens and then the public asserts its will," said Katavasov.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed