I stood for some moments as one stunned, and then my manhood-trained to some purpose by the usage of the sea-reasserted itself; and maybe I also got some slender comfort from observing that, dull and heavy as was the motion of the brig, there was yet the buoyancy of vitality in her manner of mounting the seas, and that, after all, her case might not be so desperate as was threatened by the way in which she had been torn and precipitated past the iceberg.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
The man began to smile under the girl's evident distress, and, his temper recovered, his peculiar nature promptly reasserted itself.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
It reasserted the dignity of the human form.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr