1 But its noise gave him assurance.
2 This landscape gave him assurance.
3 With this conviction came a store of assurance.
4 The tall soldier, for one, gave him some assurance.
5 He could not accept with assurance an omen that he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth.
6 He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them.
7 Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.
8 He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance.
9 With his heart continually assuring him that he was despicable, he could not exist without making it, through his actions, apparent to all men.
10 After this crossing the youth assured himself that at any moment they might be suddenly and fearfully assaulted from the caves of the lowering woods.
11 Lately, he had assured himself that the altered comrade would not tantalize him with a persistent curiosity, but he felt certain that during the first period of leisure his friend would ask him to relate his adventures of the previous day.