All 11 Uses of
assert
in
Bleak House
- Not that she is so, but that "the most is made," as the Honourable Bob Stables has frequently asserted upon oath, "of all her points."†
Chpt 1-3
- Mr. Tulkinghorn re-asserts it by another inclination of his head.†
Chpt 10-12
- It wasn't a bad profession; he couldn't assert that he disliked it; perhaps he liked it as well as he liked any other—suppose he gave it one more chance!†
Chpt 16-18
- Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appellation," says Mr. Snagsby, breaking off with a mistrust that he may have unpolitely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, "because I have known writers that have gone into brewers' houses and done really very respectable indeed.†
Chpt 31-33
- Mr. Smallweed is at once permitted so far to assert his supremacy as to be carried on a visit of sentiment into the next house and upstairs into Miss Flite's deserted room, where he looks like a hideous bird of prey newly added to her aviary.†
Chpt 31-33
- "At least there is no opposition to YOU," Volumnia asserts with confidence.†
Chpt 40-42
- He also descries promise in the figure of Mr. George himself, striding towards them in his morning exercise with his pipe in his mouth, no stock on, and his muscular arms, developed by broadsword and dumbbell, weightily asserting themselves through his light shirt-sleeves.†
Chpt 46-48
- "Well," observed my guardian, half pleasantly, half seriously, "that's a great occasion and will give my fair cousin some necessary business to transact in assertion of her independence, and will make London a more convenient place for all of us.†
Chpt 49-51
- If I cannot with my means and influence and my position bring all the perpetrators of such a crime to light, I fail in the assertion of my respect for that gentleman's memory and of my fidelity towards one who was ever faithful to me."†
Chpt 52-54
- "Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life—what I call truly venerable, mind you!†
Chpt 52-54
- That I assert no cause whatever of complaint against her.†
Chpt 58-60 *
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed