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Yet — and this was absolutely astonishing for its time — Moby Dick becomes the ultimate asserter of reason.

From New York Times • May 2, 2020

The constant in his life has been incessant work, and you need a few spreadsheets to chart the 50 or so companies that he either owns or co-owns as a patent asserter.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2013

Let the warmest asserter of the imposture answer that question, and I will give up all I have said in this work; yes, all.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace

In his first political act therefore he definitely took his place not only as an adherent of the Angevin claim, but as a resolute asserter of papal and ecclesiastical rights.

From Henry the Second by Green, Mrs. J. R.

“Man is not born alone to act, or be The sole asserter of man’s liberty; But so God shares the gifts of head and heart, And crowns blest woman with a hero’s part.”

From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster