Citations:assurances
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English citations of assurances
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- 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
- Had I now had the sense to have gone back to Hull, and have gone home, I had been happy, and my father, as in our blessed Saviour’s parable, had even killed the fatted calf for me; for hearing the ship I went away in was cast away in Yarmouth Roads, it was a great while before he had any assurances that I was not drowned.
- Upon these assurances, I resolved to venture to relieve them, if possible, and to send the old savage and this Spaniard over to them to treat.
- 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
- I stretched out my hand to him and cried, "Are you, then, safe — and Elizabeth — and Ernest?" My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness.