It is, perhaps, not superfluous to support these assertions by examples:
Thus we see, in such a case, and even among very clever persons too, those who reply by silly exclamations and by rude assertions.
They replied to all my assertions with a stare and a gesture implying that they were not to be deceived by such misrepresentations.
Such assertions, coming from lordly lips, have a suspicious optimism about them; yet the faithful slave, such as the nurse we find in the tragedies, may sometimes have corresponded to that description.
In the course of about an hour I had really convinced several of the Beast Folk of the truth of my assertions, and talked most of the others into a dubious state. I kept a sharp eye for my enemy the Hyena-swine, but he never appeared. Every now and then a suspicious movement would startle me, but my confidence grew rapidly.