All 24 Uses of
assert
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Now, as a quarter-past one has already struck, I do not consider I have asserted too much in saying, that, in another hour and thirty minutes Mercedes will have become Madame Dantes.†
Chpt 5-6
- "So much the better for you, if what you assert be true," said the abbe; "for I am firmly persuaded that, sooner or later, the good will be rewarded, and the wicked punished."†
Chpt 25-26
- "Count," returned Signor Pastrini, hurt at Albert's repeated doubts of the truth of his assertions, "I do not say this to you, but to your companion, who knows Rome, and knows, too, that these things are not to be laughed at."†
Chpt 33-34
- And I promise to give you the satisfaction of a gentleman if your scheme turns out as ingenious as you assert.†
Chpt 33-34
- Towards the house the chestnut-trees we have before mentioned rose high above the wall, without in any way affecting the growth of other luxuriant shrubs and flowers that eagerly dressed forward to fill up the vacant spaces, as though asserting their right to enjoy the boon of light and air.†
Chpt 51-52
- Though it certainly does cost France somewhat dear to assert her rights in that uncivilized country.'†
Chpt 51-52
- While you assert that she is a queen, or at least a princess.†
Chpt 53-54
- We can positively assert that his majesty did not quit the Pont-Neuf.'†
Chpt 53-54
- "Oh, you do not mean that," said he; "besides, here comes the confirmation of my assertion."†
Chpt 53-54
- I dare not positively assert it, as he has been lost for so long a time.†
Chpt 55-56
- Are you sure of what you assert?†
Chpt 69-70 *
- A learned man, before whom the last circumstance was mentioned as a fact, declared he had seen the quarries in question, which gave great weight to assertions hitherto somewhat doubtful, but which now assumed the garb of reality.†
Chpt 75-76
- Not one of these glances, nor one sigh, was lost on her; they might have been said to fall on the shield of Minerva, which some philosophers assert protected sometimes the breast of Sappho.†
Chpt 75-76
- I am going to Beauchamp, in whose journal this paragraph appears, and I shall insist on his retracting the assertion before two witnesses.†
Chpt 77-78
- Supposing the assertion to be really true?†
Chpt 77-78
- "You will retract this assertion, will you not, Beauchamp?" said Albert with increased though stifled anger.†
Chpt 77-78
- But I require three weeks' preparation; at the end of that time I shall come and say to you, 'The assertion is false, and I retract it,' or 'The assertion is true,' when I shall immediately draw the sword from its sheath, or the pistols from the case, whichever you please."†
Chpt 77-78
- But I require three weeks' preparation; at the end of that time I shall come and say to you, 'The assertion is false, and I retract it,' or 'The assertion is true,' when I shall immediately draw the sword from its sheath, or the pistols from the case, whichever you please."†
Chpt 77-78
- "The unfortunate Barrois has been poisoned," said d'Avrigny, "and I will maintain this assertion before God and man."†
Chpt 79-80
- "On my account?" said the young man; "oh, no, indeed, the count will do me the justice to assert that I have, on the contrary, always entreated him to break off my engagement, and happily it is ended.†
Chpt 85-86
- I do not know the young man; he is said to be of good family and rich, but I never trust to vague assertions.†
Chpt 85-86
- Many said your father had only to show himself to crush the charge against him; many others said he would not appear; while some asserted that they had seen him start for Brussels; and others went to the police-office to inquire if he had taken out a passport.†
Chpt 85-86
- Can you, sir, produce any witnesses to the truth of what you have asserted?†
Chpt 85-86
- The brigadier, followed by the commissary, disappeared by the inside staircase, accompanied by the noise which his assertions respecting Andrea had excited in the crowd.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed