Слово "assure". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Following the battle with the air ships, the community remained within the city for several days, abandoning the homeward march until they could feel reasonably assured that the ships would not return; for to be caught on the open plains with a cavalcade of chariots and children was far from the desire of even so warlike a people as the green Martians.

I am not given to needless worrying, but the more I tried to convince myself that all was well with Powell, and that the dots I had seen on his trail were antelope or wild horses, the less I was able to assure myself.

I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness—such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to flash out at a moment’s notice. To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the vault.

"Pure family affection, I assure you, Uncle George.

He went back to put his pack into shape for travelling. He assured himself of the existence of his three separate parcels of matches, though he did not stop to count them.

The engineer became more assured of this when he observed all the northern part of Mount Franklin.

Warden replied that unless extremely moderate requests for trained security personnel--not-repeat-not untrained, unreliable, and unfit convicts--were met, he could no longer assure civil order, much less increased quotas.

"Can have it," I assured.

assured identity and belonging not by separation,