Your good opinion of her must have been very firmly rooted to assert itself in this obstinate manner," he said.
I wish to leave his genius free to assert itself, untrammeled by pecuniary cares.
Like all other people, knowing no more of the subject than I knew, I had no idea of the pitiably helpless manner in which the restored sense of sight struggles to assert itself, in persons who have been blind for life.
Now that the first impression of surprise had passed away, I observed that a marked change was beginning to assert itself in his manner.
Whatever the citizens undertook for their advancement was checked by the interference of the privileged classes; commerce and industry were discouraged, lest the bourgeoisie should gain power enough to assert itself.
But long oppression had made the people timid, and their support was largely passive, and could not, without energetic leaders, be made to assert itself.
Contemporary with our school of grand nature, if we may so call it, and represented by artists native in thought and education, we find evidences of another beginning to assert itself, of altogether a different character.
His paintings show very decided traces of German influence, but behind it all was a strong individuality that seemed destined to assert itself, and to place him among our foremost painters.
How, then, shall we 'give the reason of the South a chance to assert itself'?
When the South has been overcome in fair fight, we must give its reason a fair chance to assert itself.
Again says our writer under review: 'When the South has been overcome in fair fight, we must give its reason a chance to assert itself.
So the notorious diversities which human taste exhibits do not become conflicts, and raise no moral problem, until their basis or their function has been forgotten, and each has claimed a right to assert itself exclusively.
That the medium should so assert itself, however, is no anomaly, the cognitive function being an ulterior one to which ideas are by no means obliged to conform.
Ideas, like other things, have pleasure in propagation, and even when allowance is made for birth-pangs and an occasional miscarriage, their native fertility will always continue to assert itself.
It is pleasant to read of the retribution that descended on Brian de Bois-Guilbert, or Sir Aldinger; but poetical justice does not always assert itself so conveniently as in the lists at Templestowe.
The conservative war-policy of the Administration continued to assert itself.
The house was so still, and the rain dripped and the wind sighed so dismally without, that a vague presentiment of evil began to assert itself.
An angry sparkle began to assert itself in Barney's blue eyes, and he remarked drily, as he took his hat, "Yez moight wait longer than yez bargained for.
Then, as reason began to assert itself, he saw that he had been absent from the city too long already.
The hitherto oppressed Catholic minority began now to assert itself on all hands, and in many places were more or less successful in securing the ascendency.
There in his earliest youth he learned to seek his happiness in the closest personal fellowship with the Lord, and the tendency of his whole future life to yield to the impulses of pious feeling already began to assert itself.
The power of Catherine de Médicis was now beginning to assert itself, and she had the bad taste to interrupt the plans of Pierre Lescot, and to order new constructions of her own designing to be carried out by her own Italian architects.
And now the real character of the Frenchman began to assert itself.
After a while the rich soil of the Republic yielded sufficient harvest to satisfy the attenuated population of the land, but it was many years ere anything approaching a normal state of affairs was able to assert itself.
As time went on, the balance of importance tended to assert itself in the direction of Buenos Aires.
For several years the Yamato Court made no attempt to re-assert itself, but in 527 an expedition of unprecedented magnitude was organized.
In lawn-tennis the ball travels for a long distance before the spin begins to assert itself, and to overcome the force of the blow which set up the spin.
I told two more of the most ludicrous and laughable stories that I could think of; the object being manifest: I wanted time for the sober second thought to assert itself.
The Republicans were anxious to break the magnetic spell of his oratory, and to get a little time for the sober second thought, of the members to assert itself.
Passion may triumph for an hour, but the sober-second-thought of the masses is sure to assert itself.
Still more threatening than this opposition was the reaction which began to assert itself at the instance of the almost thoroughly ultramontane jurists of the country, a survival of the times of Napoleon III.
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