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  • I reassured him it was secure by logging into my account and viewing his profile. Computing
  • Please be assured that eHarmony uses robust security measures, including password hashing and data encryption, to protect our members' personal information. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal. Hair fix #3
  • reassured by her praise he pressed on
  • Rest assured that you are not the only one who is confused. Times, Sunday Times
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  • ‘Don't worry, babe,’ he reassured his wife though he wasn't as confident as his tone conveyed.
  • Not only was his analysis absolutely on target, he was tremendously self-assured, well spoken and telegenic.
  • Even the sight of a gibbet, if it assured him that one robber was safely disposed of by justice, never failed to remind him how many remained still unhanged. Rob Roy
  • The savers are booking seats on the helicopter to an assured financial future, while millions are left facing ruin. Times, Sunday Times
  • How would this family prove it was the insurance company's incompetence that led to the lapsed life policy and thus claim the assured amount?
  • Any golfer who qualified for the Tour had assuredly earned and paid for the privilege.
  • The strong, even thump of her pulse against his skin reassured him.
  • `This ain't the equality I'm fighting for," she assured him, marking her outline with commensurate injuries. BAD MEDICINE
  • But a quick word with the proprietor of the local service station reassured me otherwise.
  • The Chelsea star rose to the challenge last night and gave an assured performance wearing the armband, leading by example. The Sun
  • The survival of the wairua was never assured.
  • If you happen to wander the corridors around our work areas and see us surfing the Net, rest assured, we aren't goofing off.
  • Maluleke assured him that the court offered him more protection than any other place and that it was important he felt able to speak freely and truthfully.
  • But back on the track they were reassured that the cycling will be in fine fettle. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said he had no doubt that the additional guarantees inherent in that standard will further consolidate the market position of quality-assured eggs.
  • We assured him of our loyal support.
  • The nuggetty, self-assured little bloke who regularly performs superhuman feats on the television screen may well be human after all.
  • The pupil, who was well assured of the true motive, allowed his governor to enjoy the triumph of his own penetration, and consoled himself with the hope of seeing his dulcinea again at some of the public places in Paris, which he proposed to frequent. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • What I most assuredly do not dig is the crappy coverage by NBC. Archive 2004-08-01
  • I returned the coin to Noah, assuring him that I had no further need of it, and he went away well pleased, assured of the protection of the white man's duppy -- the token of the good spirits which he venerates as much as he fears the bugaboos. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
  • Despite his considerable experiences of tight places Déprez’s heart was pounding, but when he stared across the table, her expression reassured him. The Blackstone Key
  • In the first half of his latest show, Lord of the Mince - which he describes a self-assured strutt called mincing of which he is the doyen - he reviews the ups and downs in his life. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • The powers-that-be assured me that the shots were going to be lovely and artistic.
  • Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless. Pride and Prejudice
  • Note the different shapes, and use of a half profile for assured symmetry.
  • Only 17 years old at the time the film was shot, she gives a remarkably assured performance as the rich and beautiful young socialite.
  • Liverpool were seemingly assured of the title in 1989 when they needed only to avoid a two-goal defeat at home to the Gunners to lift the trophy.
  • a tiny but assured income
  • We have been assured that our jobs are safe .
  • I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
  • The company recently reassured investors that it could shrug off any cuts to education spending in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can't bear to be reassured, condoled with, understood. Once upon a life: Joseph O'Connor
  • She went straight to her GP but was assured it was just an allergic reaction and sent home with antibiotics. The Sun
  • He has surprisingly done everything the unilateralist screamers assured us he would not do; namely, take every precautionary step the UN has asked him to take.
  • Kippletringan was distant at first ‘a gey bit; ’ then the ‘gey bit’ was more accurately described, as ‘ablins three mile; ’ then the ‘three mile’ diminished into ‘like a mile and a bittock; ’ then extended themselves into ‘four mile or there-awa; ’ and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, ‘It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
  • So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And he had an assured performance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Every time you talk about leadership ambitions, you can rest assured there’s a chainsaw behind you cutting you as you speak, so I’ll just taihoa.
  • Peter, however, reassured them somewhat, for, although he was not clad in buckskin and feathers, he wore exquisitely beaded moccasins, a scarlet sash about his waist, a small owl feather sticking in his hat band, and his ears were pierced, displaying huge earrings of hammered silver. The Shagganappi
  • Young F has been reading about it in Brendan O'Brien's The Story of Ireland, and although now reassured that the danger from fleas and rats has been much reduced, and that in any case bubonic plague is treatable with modern antibiotics, he is keen to learn more. This is a long shot, but...
  • The fishermen assured us that a small crocodile, the bava, * which often approached us when we were bathing, contributes also to the destruction of the fish. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • We present them the example of France as an unanswerable proof that one great nation can maintain bimetallism, and that by maintaining it she escaped the worst evils that have affected the monometallic countries, and assured for herself an extraordinary progress and prosperity. If Not Silver, What?
  • The police reassured her about her child's safety.
  • I paused, then continued, assured that my prods would send him back to the castle.
  • Mary graduates from a tense, haunted guilt about her role in the murder of Darnley to a radiant, assured queenliness in the spiritual honesty and dignity with which she faces death.
  • The international use of English seems assured for the foreseeable future.
  • But the publisher I had at the time (the late Mr. George Bentley) assured me that if I wrote another 'spiritualistic' book, I should lose the public hearing I had just gained. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
  • Both the Facebook founder and the founder of "THE OATMEAL" seem to understand their missions on the Web with uncommon clarity and assuredness. The 'Riffs Interview: 12 Secrets of the insanely viral 'OATMEAL' creator Matthew Inman
  • 'I was told – I was assured –' said Bellamy, 'that a mad bull was running wild about the country; and I thought it, therefore, advisable to send for a chaise from the nearest inn, that I might return this young lady to her friends.' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • Although the situation was tense, her voice was calm and very assured.
  • He appears to be assured of victory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most of the weighting is for qualitative factors such as whether the quality and timeliness of supply could be assured, the effects on other parts of the firm, and so on.
  • On the coasts of New Andalusia, the cuspa is considered as a kind of cinchona; and we were assured, that some Aragonese monks, who had long resided in the kingdom of New Grenada, recognised this tree from the resemblance of its leaves to those of the real Peruvian bark-tree. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • The assured is then paid the surrender value of the policy, which is calculated by an actuary on the basis of the amounts paid to date.
  • Mr Linda said incorrect personal details about the assured, which were necessary for determining their assurability, were supplied and sufficient assurable interest had been absent. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The night before the opening, we left assured that a private electrician would be hired to connect it up.
  • Shekinah was but a poor and transitory symbol has 'tabernacled' amongst men in the Christ, and has from Him been communicated, and is being communicated in such measure as earthly limitations and conditions permit, and that these do point on assuredly to perfect impartation hereafter, when 'we shall be like Him, for we shall see Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
  • Rest assured, if you owe taxes, we will collect them.
  • He assured us of his ability to solve the problem.
  • An assured and mature performance. Times, Sunday Times
  • A more self-assured, unfailingly polite and mannerly man never existed.
  • It seems fun for them - but a rewarding time for the viewer is less assured. Times, Sunday Times
  • After all, champagne and cava are two of my favourite things, and I've been assured that they've got it in abundance at the party.
  • From the sites Louis offered, Phillips chose the west side of Lake Rudolf, a vast region that Louis assured him was “virtually unexplored.” Ancestral Passions
  • But, rest assured, we don't encourage changing your personality, beliefs or values along with your new stylin' haircut!
  • They also assured the government that Muslims will themselves boycott such madrasas if the government produce any authentic evidence or proof regarding anti-national acts being indulged in by them.
  • When an original assured tenant dies members of his family who fulfil certain qualifications have rights of succession.
  • The music carried grief, the sea, voices speaking assuredly of whakapapa.
  • Town hall chiefs were satisfied when he assured them it would not happen again. The Sun
  • Finally, you have assemblages of lines that do not draw anything, even cubes or triangles; and we are assured that there is now a newest school of all, called Orphism, which, finding still some vestiges of intelligibility in any assemblage of lines, reduces everything to shapeless blotches. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects
  • Consumers who patronized the T'Owd Lane store were assured of unadulterated food, true measure, and fair prices.
  • A rather rude and tactless comment a few weeks ago when some of them had tried to visit her in hospital had assured them that she was still just as unsociable as before the kidnapping.
  • Mrs. Cook assured him, the conjurer was a good Christian; and that he gained all his knowledge by conversing with the stars and planets. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
  • The winner was assured a bronze medal and had a chance at winning gold.
  • Although we are now familiar with the notion that an assured shorthold tenancy gives the tenant a very limited security of tenure, that would not have been the case in 1988.
  • Few people would have taken the plunge to read it at all had they not been reassured that it would not be overly upsetting. Times, Sunday Times
  • I assured her that while I am sensitive to the concept of gender-free language, I could not write about women in the diaconate without talking about women.
  • If that sounds at all complicated, rest assured you do get full instructions and diagrams.
  • You can be slack at times if you are too assured, but fortunately I have never had that sort of luxury.
  • After prevailing in Minnesota, Republicans were assured of at least 51 Senate seats.
  • We are not getting into the whys, but rest assured you will enjoy the journey, through all the sun-baked villages, rides atop buses, sad parting at the station, not to forget that fond embrace!
  • It is only through mutual education that all parties concerned can be assured of communication instead of miscommunication.
  • We were assured that everything possible was being done.
  • `But it's no trouble to do an alteration, Lady Geraldine," the vendeuse assured her. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • He has become more confident and self-assured. Times, Sunday Times
  • I always kept a smile and reassured her that "Ni shi wode pengyou" (You are my friend) only to be taken back by her "bu shi" (No we aren't!) The calm before the storm
  • He is assured and confident in his movement up there, softly spoken and more self-conscious when he returns to the ground. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sportsmen cried out, "A hen pheasant!" but a gentleman present, who had often seen grouse in the north of England, assured me that it was a greyhen. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
  • The Chief Executive of that posh location is Tony Whitham and much success is assured through his forceful dynamism.
  • The court clerk, a slight woman of about fifty, her expression emotionless and professional, rotated the box and, when it had stopped, opened the top, looked away so that the jurors could be assured this was random, and took out the first card. Just Take My Heart
  • It might have been the Japanese frame of mind we were in, but we settled on the slow-cooked Japanese style salmon, which Hugh assured us could be prepared with whole mackerel, trout, sea bass, or scad as well. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Mr Deering assured councillors that the county manager had given a commitment that a decision would be made on the matter shortly.
  • Police people assured us to take the case seriously and book the pick pocketer for at least 6 months in Jail. Undefined
  • That turned out to be fanciful thinking as instead I found myself in a warm and cheerful place with assistants hard at work and a kettle on the boil, and if there was a funny smell it was, Polly assured me, just her lamb stew at lunch, not the waft of an odorous beast she'd flayed. Kisa Lala: Sculpting Corpses: A Conversation With Taxidermy Artist Polly Morgan
  • In an assured performance, he unveiled a number of initiatives to improve the working lives of nurses, although they failed to address the central issue of pay.
  • Tenancies are standard assured shorthold but three- to five-year agreements are available. Times, Sunday Times
  • The MPs assured the President of continued support in the fight against corruption and poverty adding that if the vices were not eradicated the country will continue lagging behind in development.
  • It was only when Gov. Charles Robinson assured them that the "unratified and unproclaimed treaty was not a surrender but a triumph of diplomacy" that the mutineers were quelled.
  • An official assured that the issues of illegal towing of the vehicles by the traffic constables will be looked into and action will be taken against erring officials.
  • I was overwhelmed by his commanding, assured musicianship in Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Smetana, Liszt, and Grainger.
  • If I had assured her that she would be torn limb from limb, like an inconvincible aristocrat flaunting abroad during the early days of the French Revolution, she would have grown enthusiastic. The Mountebank
  • We had been confidently assured that the train was about to depart to Paddington. Times, Sunday Times
  • Capt Yost continued the approach, skillfully aligning the aircraft with the runway using right rudder and fanning the speed-brakes once the landing was assured.
  • He furnishes handholds and issues both exhortations and admonitions: Readers are told, in effect, that there will be passages of extreme difficulty and complexity (and of plain longueur), but they are simultaneously assured that the effort will be rewarding and worthwhile. Literary Companion
  • His colleagues are reassured to see the Neto they always knew, but they also detect a change. Times, Sunday Times
  • The premium for a standard structure policy is 50 or 55 paise per 1,000 rupees of sum assured. What if Japan Happened in India?
  • She made a formal declaration that her Majesty, with the assistance of Madame Campan, had packed up all her jewelry some time before the departure; that she was certain of it, as she had found the diamonds, and the cotton which served to wrap them, scattered upon the sofa in the Queen's closet in the 'entresol'; and most assuredly she could only have seen these preparations in the interval between seven in the evening and seven in the morning. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • However, he reassured his constituents and the general public that he had no such intention.
  • I plowed through this text in my bedroom late at night, while the unintelligible garble of the downstairs television kept me abreast of my parents' assured position in front of it.
  • The film —tautly directed by horror-meister Sam Raimi —is almost assured an Oscar nomination.
  • Her success as an actress was now assured.
  • Hence a solution of chondrin seems to act far more quickly and energetically than pure gelatine or isinglass; but I am assured by good authorities that it is most difficult, or impossible, to know whether chondrin is pure, and if it contained any albuminous compound, this would have produced the above effects. Insectivorous Plants
  • The adjuster came within 20 minutes, called a flatbed tow truck, completed all the insurance paperwork, and assured us that the cuota would pay for everything because the road conditions were indeed deplorable. Traveling Mexico's Cuotas (Toll Roads)
  • When we were dating, he assured me he wanted children. I've been in counseling for a year for depression. Please help me. - Barren in Boise.
  • These so-called progressive women are more than happy to essentialize gender roles if it means oppressing someone that is not like them but you can rest assured that if it meant that they were forced to perform genderized work i.e. stay home and play good little wife while the husband works, you would hear an uproar. Congratulations to Thomas Beattie In Spite of “The Views” Transphobia
  • It is ten people shy of its target, although Mr Smith assured that the firm would not be pursuing any compulsory redundancies to make up the shortfall.
  • The rest of the buildings - including the library, the refectory, the day room and the monks' cells (from the Latin cella rather than from any notion of prison, they assured me) were all out of bounds.
  • Please feel assured that we will abide by our promise.
  • Her face was fixed on her, through the night; she was the creature who had escaped by force from her cage, yet there was in her whole motion assuredly, even as so dimly discerned, a kind of portentous intelligent stillness. The Golden Bowl — Complete
  • There are, admittedly, some who would contend that he can overdo the cavalier insouciance, but, assuredly, the confidence he oozes is certainly very welcome.
  • We queried whether the doctor became hungry on the second day, but he assured us that he's long since become accustomed to no-food days.
  • To return to Franklin, this didactically waggish man blandly assured English readers that it was grand to see the whales leap like salmon up the falls of Niagara.
  • The New York Times reports that, for decades, the military brass has assured the locals that underground storage of these weapons was perfectly safe.
  • The administrator assured staff, residents, landlords and suppliers that the administration of the parent company would not directly affect them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Given that PTSD sometimes takes years to surface in a veteran, these numbers are almost assuredly going to grow. Times, Sunday Times
  • A letter from him might now be expected any day; and he would assuredly follow quickly on its heels. North and South
  • His self-assured yet humble presence was fascinating, and I had to grudgingly admit later that I enjoyed watching him play.
  • She had grown from a gauche teenager to a self-assured young woman.
  • The dam supplies water to millions of people in the Pretoria area, but the unicity has assured people that areas receiving piped municipal water were not at risk.
  • Then, assured that the company had repented of their evil deeds and intentions, he granted his full, sovereign forgiveness to all.
  • It was syllogistic, precise, assured and all-embracing; divergence from it was heavily deprecated. The Times Literary Supplement
  • My relationship with the company dates to 1988 when I watched rehearsals for Don Giovanni and heard Alan Held, a young bass-baritone who brought a rich sound and assured acting to the role of Giovanni's wily servant. Susan Dormady Eisenberg: As Wolf Trap Opera Marks 40th Year, 14 Star Alumni to Return for Benefit Concert
  • 'I delivered your letter this evening and had a long conference with both the Ministers: Mr. Choiseul assured me upon his word of honour that Your R.H. should be inform'd in time before the departure of Mr. de Gouillon, {309a} so that you might go with that embarquement if you thought proper, upon which I interrupted him and told him if they were destined for the Kingdom of Ireland that it would be to no manner of purpose, for I was certain you would not go, and that you had at all times expressly ordered me to tell them so; he continued his conversation and said you should be equally informed when the P. of S. {309b} embarked. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
  • Over three hours crew members reassured passengers that they were tackling a fire on the car deck. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is careful that his distiller does his duty, of which he can be assured only, by rising at four o'clock, winter and summer, to see if the distiller is up and at his business, and that every thing is going well -- and to prepare every thing and article necessary -- to attend and see the hogs fed, and that the potale or slop be cold when given, and that the cattle be slopped -- that the stills are not burning, nor the casks leaking, &c. &c. The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States
  • Club bosses have already turned the volume down and assured residents they would monitor noise levels.
  • Voters will be reassured by Labour's record, and not frightened by talk of a house-price crash or third-term tax rises.
  • I spent my entire childhood being reassured by anthropomorphic animated figures that, as long as I spent enough time reading, I would eventually wander into a castle and find myself in a relationship with someone who looked like Chewbacca in formalwear. Happy Valentine's Day! Can someone explain this 'love' thing?
  • A man with a university education, with an inclination to the practice of cunnilinctus, assured me that this inclination began in childhood. The Sexual Life of the Child
  • I am assured by advisers that the company is still viable but is going through a serious restructuring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even then, as Woodruff points out again and again, we can never be assured that we'll reach a definitive end.
  • Her doctor has assured us that she'll be fine.
  • I said I was embarrassed not to know; someone had assured me that a theremin was a kind of "Eastern" religion, and the "cracking into a thousand pieces" was the consequence of being peered at by a waiflike holy man enveloped in a white shroud. Archive 2007-06-01
  • The play's popularity has been assured by the critics' rave reviews.
  • Which said, the lady and her now partly reassured lover got them to bed, where for a great while they disported them right gamesomely, laughing together and making merry over the luckless scholar. The Decameron, Volume II
  • Maud the empresse at the same time was deliuered of hir second sonne named Geffrey, so that he saw himselfe prouided of an assured successor. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
  • Despite the heavy police presence in the area, few are reassured - many of the policemen are militia members. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had bought them a red ball and told them to have fun and be careful , I assured them Id be back in 2 hours. when I picked them up they looked dazed I thought they where tired but they started speaking in tongues , which is to say jibbirish and I had to rince their mouths out with soup errr... soap.... Discuss The Difference
  • Oppermann's legend was assured and to this day old timers still refer to musettes as ‘Oppy bags’, since the Australian is credited with inventing them.
  • To be assured of victory in a likely election next summer, they need a poll lead closer to 20 points at this stage in the cycle. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, when its time for bed, you can rest assured that you're in good company.
  • This way he can graciously spurn your offer, while feeling reassured that you are not just taking advantage of him. Times, Sunday Times
  • “We can take your toughest criticism,” Claire assured each camper at registration, where each received her room key, information packet, and a beautiful lei made of plumeria blossoms. The Aloha Quilt
  • I have to be reassured by my wife that I am not wasting away, a bit like ‘does my bum look big in this?’
  • Whatever braggadocio the most fearsome pugilists in world boxing are coming up with, they are themselves each assured of a purse of at least $17.5m for meeting in the ring, making it the richest boxing bout in history.
  • He was young, in his early twenties, but assured and confident enough too. Broken Lives
  • Every policy has a minimum guaranteed value made up of the sum assured plus the bonuses accrued to date.
  • Be assured that our vision is and remains client satisfaction.
  • Jack assured himself that they did as they were told.
  • His effective rhetoric reassured a country unsettled by the tumults of the 1960s and 1970s and perceptions of American decline.
  • Assuredly, by foretelling the destruction of a Temple a preacher could invite backlash for the implied criticism of its hierocracy.
  • And that, in some cases at least, this cave residence ended a very long time ago, we are assured, for since then a great thickness of stalagmite, which is deposited with extreme slowness, has spread over the lower cave deposits and sealed them in. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution
  • Between august 20 and 29, participants will be assured to, by means of workshops, practice historical analog processes such as daguerreotype, cianotype, vandyke, albumen prints, saltprints and pinhole. Photography Blog - News
  • The idea that mutual assured destruction is a policy choice shows a complete misunderstanding of the basic facts of existence.
  • I hesitated a moment - reassured myself I'd understood correctly - and dived in.
  • The customer relations representative assured us that carmine and cochineal are natural colors, and correctly so.
  • But I went alone, reassured in the north by the desert, the barrenness interrupted by the stolid saguaro, the gnarled creosote. The Right Thing
  • In addition he seeks covenants to ensure that surrounding parkland remains as pasture so that the wider country house landscape is assured protection.
  • The combination and crossover of different communication ways was applied to overcome the difficulty in communication, which assured the real-time data transmission.
  • They are assured of an enjoyable and trouble - free holiday.
  • Please rest assured that nothing will get beyond the earliest stages of preparation without full consultation taking place.
  • I was actually reassured by this but six months later I was requested to resubmit my claim because my salary details were incorrect.
  • Your success in the field of your especial ambition will be assured if you win your first chance there by making an _initial_ pleasing impression and then _keep right on pleasing_. Certain Success
  • In respect of Assureds domiciled elsewhere policies will be issued by the Underwriters.
  • And when victory seemed assured, the game delivered one last surprise. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is noticeably confident as he speaks, clearly feeling assured in an environment he has long been used to. Times, Sunday Times
  • The meat appeared a little undercooked, but she assured me that it was fine - she also appreciated the pickled onion and green tomato that accompanied the dish.
  • If you can not complete the declaration without qualification, the sum assured may also have to be reduced under your Bond.
  • She had previously assured herself that my hair was all my own, and now my coiffure was the only part of my toilet that come in for her unqualified approval, for Charlie had made the most of my abundant hair, which was of a beautiful color and texture and inclined to curl. Madeleine An Autobiography
  • Physically the Great Change did not do so very much to reinvigorate her — she had lived in that dismal underground kitchen in Clayton too long for any material rejuvenescence — she glowed out indeed as a dying spark among the ashes might glow under a draught of fresh air — and assuredly it hastened her end. In the Days of the Comet
  • She chose a gold braid for the trim and assured herself that more than usual care would be taken in the making. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • His manner was superficially assured, underneath perhaps half-savage, shy and farouche, and deprecating. The Plumed Serpent
  • I'd be delighted to know what your solution to this conundrum might be since it assuredly has nothing to do with +front environments or palatalization. Linear A treatment of consonant clusters
  • But liberal politicians assured that such cooperation in parliament would be based only around individual political issues, rather than the basis of a power-sharing coalition. Egypt Secularists Face Hard Choices
  • ‘This will be the job of all the sons of this homeland… until we can rest assured that our country is free of devils and wicked people,’ Nayef said.
  • The sweet wonderful note of a wood thrush, somewhere far out of sight, assured me, what everything conspired to assure me, that I was certainly in fairyland, not on the common earth. Daisy
  • But she had reassured herself that Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard – known to everyone as "Pritch" – was a military policeman, a redcap. 'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth'
  • But he is less assured in the last quarter of the book. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is a quietly-assured personality, and the pursuit of a physical-education qualification at Rosewell High School in Coatbridge stoked his interest in the mechanics of physiology.
  • On enquiring from the Chinese writer attached to the Consulate, the man assured me that the story was quite true and that I could easily see for myself. China and the Chinese
  • In addition he seeks covenants to ensure that surrounding parkland remains as pasture so that the wider country house landscape is assured protection.
  • And he is not likely to be reassured by the rhapsody in which George identifies the blessings of a triumphant single tax with ‘the city of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl!’
  • [Footnote 1: "Upon my asking him how he had acquired the art of a conoscente so very suddenly, he assured me that nothing was more easy. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
  • Finance opportunities: financial mechanisms are still evolving and are not yet assured of success.
  • And when he had found her, he bespoke her in this wise: "Lady, my garden boy hath assuredly gone entirely mad".

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