Plácido and Machado de Assis rank as great in the literatures of their respective countries without any qualifications whatever.
He came down one portion of the road usually shelled with three couchés and one assis on the seat beside him.
The boys were tiring and replacing the cars in between the shots, which came at 2½ minute intervals, and one broke near him, wounding the assis beside him.
There might have been another Assis besides old Pablo, and of Alessandros there were dozens everywhere.
When Felipe said that he did not believe he could offer Alessandro Assis money enough to tempt him to stay on the place, Ramona opened her lips suddenly, as if to speak, then changed her mind, and remained silent.
If Alessandro Assis is seen here again, I'll eat my head!
I want to find one Alessandro Assis who lived there.
Who, then, was this woman whom Alessandro Assis had married in less than ten days from the night on which Ramona had left her home?
I am not at all sure I could offer Alessandro Assis money enough to tempt him to stay here as my servant.
When the Brazilian Academy of letters was founded in 1897, Machado de Assis was unanimously elected president and held the position until his death.
I have omitted mention of the earlier novels of Machado de Assis because they belong to a romantic epoch, and he was not of the stuff that makes real romantics.
Machado de Assis evidently and confessedly owes to the first, if not also to the second, the advantages of his metrification and of his poetic form in general over that of some of his contemporaries, such as Castro Alves and Varella.
Machado de Assis is, as far as a man may be, sui generis, a literary law unto himself.
Not that Machado de Assis was an Anatole France, as some would insinuate.
As Machado de Assis belongs to the company of Anatole France, so Verissimo belongs with Lemaître.
The distinguishing trait of Machado deAssis is that he is, in our literature, an artist and a philosopher.
Even in his poetry, his poetry that has been so unjustly judged and so pettily understood, Machado de Assis is a pioneer, an originator of the first order.
All of Machado de Assis is practically present in his early works; in fact, he did not change, he scarcely developed.
Machado de Assis belongs with the original writers of the nineteenth century.
Certainly Don Francisco de Assis is no favourable specimen, either physically or morally, of the young Bourbon blood.
The three tales by Machado de Assis in this volume are translated from his Varias Historias.
Machado de Assis published his fifteenth volume and his fifth collection of tales .
With the year 1879, however, Machado de Assis began a long phase of maturity that was to last for thirty years.
The judgment of Verissimo upon Machado de Assis differs somewhat from that of his distinguished compatriots.
Both because of the importance of Machado de Assis to Brazilian literature, and as an insight into Verissimo's delightful critical style, I translate somewhat at length from that writer.
The highest distinction of the genius of Machado de Assisin Brazilian literature is that he is the only truly universal writer we possess, without ceasing on that account to be really Brazilian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
