"Assure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I need scarcely assure you, my liege," interposed Rochester, "that it was no feigned passion. And it is needless to add, that however ardently I felt towards my fair accuser then, my passion has ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Government, for its part, hastened to assure the British Minister at Brussels of its determination to resist with might and main ...
— World's War Events, Vol. I • Various
... again, "even if I had come on some such mission, I should assure you, as I do now, that it was nothing of the kind. How else could such missions be kept secret at all? It would be a secretum commissum in any case; as the theologians would say. I can but repeat what I said in my letter to you; and, if you will think of it, ...
— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson
... return. "It's good to be back, Michael Daragh." (The nice, sane, sensible, dependable creature that he was! What a solid comfort it was to have him! This was exactly the way she wanted him to act and to feel and to be, and she wasn't—she was at some pains to assure herself—in the very least feeling vaguely disappointed or let down by his attitude.) "But it was the best time I ever had,—best in the sense of being the best for me." Generously and sweetly she gave him his due. "I'm still thanking you, ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... own escape after. I told him the ways he might do it, and how to escape after with safety; which he offered and promised to do." The Earl adds a piece of information, which, no doubt, he communicated to the intended murderer, and which, probably, decided him on making the attempt: "I assure your Highness he may do it without danger if he will; and if he will not do what he may in your service, there will be done ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack
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