Will you tell me that the triumphant assertion of a man's honour is not more to him than bank-notes?'

Indeed her strongest denunciations against the reigning modes were usually clinched with the triumphant assertion that they were "French fashions."

Reiterating her one triumphant assertion, she fixed her eyes on Julian with a look which said plainly: Answer that if you can.

"The future of poetry is immense," declared Matthew Arnold, and there are few lovers of literature who doubt his triumphant assertion.