Citations:assurance

English citations of assurance

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  But who can tell how joyful this man was when he had gotten his roll again! for this roll was the assurance of his life and acceptance at the desired haven.

• 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

  The captain told them he would spare their lives if they would give him an assurance of their abhorrence of the treachery they had been guilty of, and would swear to be faithful to him in recovering the ship, and afterwards in carrying her back to Jamaica, from whence they came.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  "She is innocent, my Elizabeth," said I, "and that shall be proved; fear nothing, but let your spirits be cheered by the assurance of her acquittal."

• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor.