It is a good thing for women to be self-asserting and independent. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.] Reference
Does it seem to not-jive with the tactless, self-asserting, loud-mouthed way that I write here?. From Wordnik.com. [whitehelmet Diary Entry] Reference
He was consequential, dogmatic, and with all the self-asserting priggishness of young Oxford fresh upon him. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
It is the tongue of conquerors, the language of imperial will, of self-asserting individuality, of courage, masterhood, and freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The face of the young girl flushed, -- not with confusion, but with self-asserting and defiant brightness that seemed to say, "Let them do their worst.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
We come from the domain of finished products, complete to the last polish, silently self-asserting and wooing the almighty dollar with all their simpers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
But he was a man who was pleasant to other men — not combative, not self-asserting beyond the point at which self-assertion ceases to be a necessity of manliness. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
Yet truly my heart warms to nothing so much as to a row of fat English cabbages which grow in the rectory garden, with a complacent, self-asserting John Bullism about them. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Her self-asserting manner had vanished; she was quiet, she was even humble. From Wordnik.com. [The Evil Genius] Reference
Faithful witnessing to men of their sins need not be rude, harsh, or self-asserting. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference
He had been ever bold and self-asserting; but now he was perhaps a little over-bold. From Wordnik.com. [John Caldigate] Reference
Can we, then, consistently with such a position, be self-asserting and self-claimant?. From Wordnik.com. [A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies] Reference
The most complex intellectual processes may be made subservient to this self-asserting emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
Again it is said, "Woman when independent and self-asserting will lose her influence over man.". From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
Afterward he became noisy, self-asserting, sharp, and seemingly devoid of moral sense or honesty. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The modest pronoun is not to be outdone by the blustering substantive or the self-asserting verb. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches 1908] Reference
The Doctor, though he was a self-asserting and somewhat violent man, was thoroughly soft-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's School] Reference
The most modest among ourselves seem a little arrogant and self-asserting in comparison with them. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Margaret A Portrait] Reference
He was by nature strong and robust, and his experience made him unaccommodating and self-asserting. From Wordnik.com. [Character] Reference
Instead of being critical and self-asserting, you become humble and have the mind of a little child. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses] Reference
"Biddy," said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, "I must request to know what you mean by this?". From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
But then she laid her face against his, in a way that was extremely womanish and not a bit self-asserting. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
English cabbages which grow in the rectory garden, with a complacent, self-asserting John Bullism about them. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
To remove from her mind any such error, his tones and manner became still more self-asserting and patronizing. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
If he is self-asserting and defiant, he takes the opposite of these opinions and gives to them his vehement adherence. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
He too seemed, by his manners, to have entered a little more on the way of humility; he was quieter, and less self-asserting. From Wordnik.com. [North and South] Reference
If you will allow me to say so, your wife's self-asserting way -- well, it was so unlike her brother's way, that it had its effect on him!. From Wordnik.com. [Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time] Reference
Some specially self-asserting American speaks his mind louder than other people, and then you say that all Americans are self-asserting. '. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Blandford, of North Liberty, Connecticut, but now a shrewd, practical, self-sufficient, and self-asserting unit of the more cautious later. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonauts of North Liberty] Reference
The logic could hardly get worse, but the secretary got more pompously self-asserting, and the scholarly poet's temper more and more venomous. From Wordnik.com. [Romola] Reference
She would have far more trouble than Amy in getting rid of the self-asserting self in her, which closes the door against heaven's divinest gifts. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
To this, and to one or two other missives couched in terms of increasing decision, Hugh answered with manly, self-asserting, overbearing arguments. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
The loud-mouthed, self-asserting fly-catcher in the cottonwood tree learned to know my whistle, and whenever I attempted to mimic him he would send back a ringing answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wolf Pack] Reference
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