What is "assures"

Usage examples of "assures".

Ornamental Lanthorns scarcely bigger than the Flames they hold, dangling from the Wrists of young Ladies with business at this Hour, "All the Rage in Town just now," Maskelyne assures Mason.

Mason assures the Company, "nor too young, to miss recognizing, in the Torpedo, five-sixths of whose Length is taken up with these Electrical Plates, the Principle of all these Structures, which is, that you must stack a great many of them, one immediately upon the next, if you wish to produce any effect large enough to be useful in, let alone noticed by, the World.

Mason assures him, "brought on by the Snow, the vanishing of detail, the Brain's Anxiety to fill the Vacuum at any Cost" "Well met, Sirs," I reply.

Spit's calculations out, indeed, he assures Nathe, 'twould "threaten the very Arrangement," were he to refuse some share.

A glance at the other customers reassures him that they have not noticed.

A second glance reassures him that this is not his pursuer, but an older woman.

It crosses his mind to kiss her, but he distracts himself by sipping the wine as she assures him, 'You'd discover things about yourself.

An awful premonition comes to him that every event will suffer a similar fate, till he reassures himself with the thought that Dr Hodgkinson is only responsible for the readings.

Eliza assures herself that as soon as she gets called out her stomach will stop churning, she will stop sweating, and cursive capital Q will start looking like a letter instead of like the number 2.

He invites Saul briefly into his office, where he assures Saul that an eye will be kept on Aaron, as well as on Marvin and Billy, to prevent further trouble.

While he assures himself that this has no effect on his fatherly love, which is of course unconditional, he realizes that Aaron at sixteen is as mockable as Aaron at ten.

At first he thinks he is dreaming, but the distinctly nondreamlike detail of used dental floss on his nightstand assures him that he isn’t.

She assures herself that once she enters she will be safe from the path she abandoned and the world will reinflate.

Aaron assures himself that his newfound deceitfulness is a necessary short-term skill to be abandoned once full-blown devotee-dom has been achieved.

He assures himself that this, like anything else, is a stage to be outgrown.