All 9 Uses of
assert
in
David Copperfield
- Then Peggotty fitted her mouth close to the keyhole, and delivered these words through it with as much feeling and earnestness as a keyhole has ever been the medium of communicating, I will venture to assert: shooting in each broken little sentence in a convulsive little burst of its own.†
Chpt 4-6
- Sometimes, to make it a more sovereign specific, he was so kind as to squeeze orange juice into it, or to stir it up with ginger, or dissolve a peppermint drop in it; and although I cannot assert that the flavour was improved by these experiments, or that it was exactly the compound one would have chosen for a stomachic, the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning, I drank it gratefully and was very sensible of his attention.†
Chpt 7-9
- Mr. Creakle then made a speech, through Tungay, in which he thanked Steerforth for asserting (though perhaps too warmly) the independence and respectability of Salem House; and which he wound up by shaking hands with Steerforth, while we gave three cheers — I did not quite know what for, but I supposed for Steerforth, and so joined in them ardently, though I felt miserable.†
Chpt 7-9
- I shall begin to assert the privileges of a mother-in-law, if you go on like that, and scold you.†
Chpt 16-18
- I feel that the time is arrived when Mr. Micawber should exert himself and — I will add — assert himself, and it appears to me that these are the means.†
Chpt 28-30
- I was about indignantly to give my assertion the confirmation he required, when he caught hold of my hand, and gave it a squeeze.†
Chpt 37-39
- You are their champion, and assert their rights.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- Mr. T. will not require me to depict my feelings, when I inform him that I have become accustomed to hear Mr. Micawber assert that he has sold himself to the D. Mystery and secrecy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence.†
Chpt 49-51
- If his sweet-tempered wife could have got up any self-assertion against anyone, I am satisfied it could only have been because she was the Beauty's sister.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed