"Positiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... name with a peremptory positiveness that was almost an accusation. He rose calmly, raising his eyebrows a little ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson
... the arguments which Antiochus used to urge at Alexandria, and many years afterwards, with much more positiveness too, in Syria, when he was there with me, a little before he died. But, as my case is now established, I will not hesitate to warn you, as you are my dearest friend, (he was addressing me,) and one a good deal ...
— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero
... at his crestfallen look. It was plain that, in talking over myself and my situation, he had declared with the positiveness which I found was part of his character, that I had fallen into some trouble at school and fled ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... caricaturists—with every quality, good or evil, at its highest? Here are the rough crust over a kindly heart, the explosive temper, the arrogance, the insular narrowness, the want of sympathy and insight, the rudeness of perception, the positiveness, the overbearing bluster, the strong deep-seated religious principle, and every other characteristic of the cruder, rougher John Bull who was the great grandfather ...
— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Cynthia, still standing where she had stopped, and speaking with great positiveness, "there's only one thing to do now, and that is, find out who the old lady is and ...
— The Boarded-Up House • Augusta Huiell Seaman
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