asseveration
Example Sentences
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The brethren raised their hands in solemn asseveration and, like a pillar of sacred sacrificial incense, the steamy cloud from thirty throats rose to Heaven in one united breath, "We swear it!"
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
I venture to add, with all possible energy of asseveration, that I did that thing, Nim.
From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton
Which way his own tastes leaned we may judge from his favorite asseveration, "By my Zuccone."
From Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
With this asseveration he rose erect and entered boldly among the bushes, while Nelatu concealed himself behind them.
From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne
The only five minutes during which he had appeared really awake had been when some one in the smoking-room repeated Julian Grant's asseveration that the German atrocity stories were "faked."
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
