He never made a forceful, positive assertion; he was the dispassionate seeker of truth.

I am humbler than you, and your positive assertion seems much the more arrogant.

This positive assertion was as reassuring in one way as it was disquieting in another.

They seem very intelligent and agreeable people; but I can't doubt Sister Arguseye's positive assertion.

As far as I know without positive assertion, their liberty of action was confined to the garden.

At one you have the positive assertion-HereI am; at the other the equally strong denial- Iamnot.

I also made up in positive assertion what was wanting in argument, and generally came off with triumph.

But, aside from his positive assertion, the truth of this statement is not only possible but very probable.

On that matter Kenneby had not made any positive assertion, though he had expressed a very strong opinion.

But Georgina said: 'No; that were a stale trick, and her ladyship might believe Jane's positive assertion of innocence.

Even in spite of this positive assertion, the poor woman held desperately to the hope that had been roused in her.

He must have made a positive assertion-soonafterward found to be untrue-thatthe cellar was hired several months before it really was.

His mother's positive assertion, that the best way out of the difficulty was to let it solve itself, did not satisfy him.

She is certainly less dogmatic, less dictatorial, less abounding in positive assertion, than what now passes for "science," in the popular estimation.

Things are handled rather by way of positive assertion, than of polemical dissertation, (which too commonly degenerates into verbal strifes, 1 Tim.

Whatever that harm could be, was now intensified-andscandal, beginning as a mere whispered suggestion, would increase to loud and positive assertion ere long.