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  • As you know, Bill and I concur in your conviction that the cell strain should be referred to as HeLa and that the patient's name should not be used."†   (source)
  • After five minutes, however, all four of us concurred: Hutchison's decision to leave Beck and Yasuko where they lay was the proper course of action.†   (source)
  • Secretly, however, he concurred with the sentiment.†   (source)
  • Danny concurred gleefully, and broadjumped his prone father.†   (source)
  • Some of our passengers, yes, could lose a little weight, I think you will concur, Captain.†   (source)
  • Does His Majesty concur?†   (source)
  • "Aye, he is our guest," concurred Nado.†   (source)
  • "Yep," Bien concurred, a bit wearily.†   (source)
  • Rudy would concur, "Me too," but then, he wouldn't move from his place at the foot of my bed next to my desk where I sat writing.†   (source)
  • The sores were already much better, and I concurred when he decided to leave them exposed to the air for the day, although I could see that it didn't matter if I concurred or not.†   (source)
  • "That's about right, sir," Lieutenant Mannion concurred.†   (source)
  • "Exactly," he concurred.†   (source)
  • Jack and John concurred, and they let Charles lead the way through the labyrinth of streets.†   (source)
  • Cedric concurs, hopeful of this expert testimony about his impending sex appeal.†   (source)
  • Does everyone concur?†   (source)
  • I would concur, she said over the speakerphone.†   (source)
  • Until now, he said, he had concurred in the belief that the more forceful the government in dealing with the Americans, the more likely matters could be "amicably adjusted."†   (source)
  • "Certain senators on the Armed Services Committee would agree with that assessment," concurred Alex.†   (source)
  • I concur.†   (source)
  • "I concur with that assessment," I said, crossing the street.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, baiting them was the one activity that the white Protestant residents concurred in.†   (source)
  • "Yes, it is," concurred Astaroth.†   (source)
  • It demanded a limitless conformity from its sons, and we concurred blindly.†   (source)
  • " "She saved us sure as we're standing 'ere," Bessie says, concurring.†   (source)
  • "Of course not," he concurred, as if I had asked him the question.†   (source)
  • ' On this issue at least, the president and vice-president of the Confederacy concurred with Lincoln.†   (source)
  • General Saxton added a note: "I concur fully in the above."†   (source)
  • What could induce the Senate to concur in a preference in which it would not share?†   (source)
  • Lee said, "I have not concurred.†   (source)
  • I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation.†   (source)
  • Lucien concurs.†   (source)
  • She's an old, old lady,his father said gravely; and Ralph gravely and proudly concurred.†   (source)
  • On January 13, 1868, an angry Senate notified the President and Grant that it did not concur in the suspension of Stanton, and Grant vacated the office upon Stanton's return.†   (source)
  • But however Nina and Jinny Love made faces at they knew not what, Easter concurred; she thoroughly agreed.†   (source)
  • All the brothers had concurred.   (source)
  • Langdon concurred with a nod.   (source)
  • Langdon concurred.   (source)
  • Blore concurred: "Vanished-that's the word!"   (source)
  • In passing sentence of death I concurred with the verdict.   (source)
  • Old Shinny had been clearly puzzled as well, but in the end he had concurred with the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • His brothers readily concurred, and so, of course, did their wives.†   (source)
  • With a small shake of his head, Eugenides's father concurred.†   (source)
  • "I heard on the news it's supposed to hit ninety-five degrees," I concurred.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," we concur, hands on our hips, facing him, a line-up of feminists.†   (source)
  • Mikil would step forward and tell the people that on her word, Thomas of Hunter concurred.†   (source)
  • "I certainly am," concurred the former intelligence officer.†   (source)
  • It is this: the national rulers, whenever nine States concur, will have no option on the subject.†   (source)
  • "I don't think it's anybody's," concurred Holland.†   (source)
  • On the following night, the board met and enthusiastically concurred with Piedmont's decision.†   (source)
  • "Even the Bible concurs," Bellamy said.†   (source)
  • Langdon had to concur.†   (source)
  • Perhaps nothing, I concurred.†   (source)
  • Most ancient philosophies concurred.†   (source)
  • "Timing aside," Solomon said, "I find it wondrous to note that throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing—that a great enlightenment is coming.†   (source)
  • Andros had spent long hours researching the Legend of the Masonic Pyramid, and although nobody seemed to agree on whether or not the pyramid was real, they all concurred on its famous promise of vast wisdom and power.†   (source)
  • Do you concur?†   (source)
  • 'Yes,' concurred McAllister.†   (source)
  • "Yes," concurred the naval officer.†   (source)
  • I concur.†   (source)
  • Her other bloodriders concurred.†   (source)
  • If you don't concur with us in our pacific system, I, and a number of us, will break off from you in New England and we will carry on the opposition by ourselves in our own way.†   (source)
  • "Well said," Melekhin concurred.†   (source)
  • Soon, all of them would know both my name and face, and all of them would concur that I had no place in R Company or the Corps of Cadets.†   (source)
  • When Senator Ellsworth observed how very ordinary the mere appellation of President sounded, Adams immediately concurred from the Chair.†   (source)
  • The Office concurs.†   (source)
  • Major Mudge, your tactical officer, has recommended instant dismissal and I have concurred with his recommendation.†   (source)
  • He had had enough of one war to wish ever to see another, Jefferson wrote, and to this Adams concurred wholeheartedly.†   (source)
  • I concurred.†   (source)
  • Sandi concurs.†   (source)
  • The President will, with the advice and consent of the Senate, make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur.†   (source)
  • The President will have the power, "by and with consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur."†   (source)
  • According to Adams, writing years later, "Jefferson in those days never failed to agree with me in everything of a political nature, and he very cordially concurred in this."†   (source)
  • Article 2, section two gives power to the President, "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, PROVIDED TWO THIRDS OF THE SENATORS PRESENT CONCUR."†   (source)
  • She had her usual complaints—repairs were needed, good servants impossible to find, the local prices outrageous—but the longer she stayed at Richmond Hill, the more attached she became, and Adams concurred.†   (source)
  • To Abigail her mother-in-law was a cheerful, open-minded person of "exemplary benevolence," dedicated heart and soul to the welfare of her family, which was more than her eldest son ever committed to paper, even if he concurred.†   (source)
  • Eighteen children concurred with the pre-Copernican Theory that the earth was the center of the universe.†   (source)
  • The Boston Courier pronounced that it was "unable to find that any Northern Whig member of Congress concurs with Mr. Webster"; and his old defender, the Boston Atlas, stated, "His sentiments are not our sentiments nor we venture to say of the Whigs of New England."†   (source)
  • All of these books concurred that the successful superintendent demanded strict adherence to the chain.†   (source)
  • They tended to be passive during crises and concurred with the unwritten law that the bad times would pass after a while.†   (source)
  • Other mothers concurred heartily with her and blamed it on the war.†   (source)
  • Even Mallinson concurred.†   (source)
  • Maxie concurred eagerly.†   (source)
  • Had Becket concurred with the King's wishes, we should have had an almost ideal State: a union of spiritual and temporal administration, under the central government.†   (source)
  • All, however, concurred in regarding these phrases as mere official verbiage, and the night of January 25 was the occasion of much festivity.†   (source)
  • That he called the cabinet together and consulted Genl Scott—that Scott concurred with Anderson, and the cabinet, with the exception of P M Genl Blair were for evacuating the Fort, and all the troubles and anxieties of his life had not equalled those which intervened between this time and the fall of Sumter.†   (source)
  • In this plan he concurred, and when the Court questioned him, he said that he had made no protest against the taking of this murderous and dangerous weapon.†   (source)
  • Old Dr. Fontaine diagnosed her trouble as female complaint and concurred with Dr. Meade in saying she should never have had Beau.†   (source)
  • And it was because of the uncertainty of his future earnings, he informed them hesitantly, that he thought a man's wife ought to have an independent income-with which Aunt Bertha emphatically concurred.†   (source)
  • Frank thought the world too rude a place for a lone woman and, in that idea, Scarlett silently and heartily concurred.†   (source)
  • He had told Gerald over and over that Emmie Slattery's baby might have been fathered by any one of a dozen men as easily as himself—an idea in which Gerald concurred—but that had not altered his case so far as Ellen was concerned.†   (source)
  • In the last part of this opinion Cornelius concurred.†   (source)
  • You will be glad to know that your grandfather concurs.†   (source)
  • "While you," I concurred, "caught your death in the night air!"†   (source)
  • "We have the others—we have indeed the others," I concurred.†   (source)
  • She could not concur, but she was silent.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she concurred; "I think that wouldn't do much towards making her resemble me!"†   (source)
  • Apart from that, what Uriah says I quite concur in!'†   (source)
  • Everything has concurred to point it out to us.†   (source)
  • For New York, to Mrs. Archer's mind, never changed without changing for the worse; and in this view Miss Sophy Jackson heartily concurred.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp had to concur.†   (source)
  • And at the end of that time—in January, 19—, the Court of Appeals finding (Fulham, Jr., reviewing the evidence as offered by Belknap and Jephson)—with Kincaid, Briggs, Truman and Dobshutter concurring, that Clyde was guilty as decided by the Cataraqui County jury and sentencing him to die at some time within the week beginning February 28th or six weeks later—and saying in conclusion: "We are mindful that this is a case of circumstantial evidence and that the only eyewitness denies…†   (source)
  • Matt concurred.†   (source)
  • Then one of the three enthusiasts he had seen just now, the author of the Apologia: "My argument was …. that absolute certitude as to the truths of natural theology was the result of an assemblage of concurring and converging probabilities …. that probabilities which did not reach to logical certainty might create a mental certitude."†   (source)
  • And although I had never thought of it that way before, now that you mention it, I can only concur with you wholeheartedly.†   (source)
  • My companion bravely concurred.†   (source)
  • He wears those old things, however, with remarkable decorum, quite the cavalier, I can only concur with you there.†   (source)
  • I forthwith expressed that the proper as well as the pleasant and friendly thing would be therefore that on the arrival of the public conveyance I should be in waiting for him with his little sister; an idea in which Mrs. Grose concurred so heartily that I somehow took her manner as a kind of comforting pledge—never falsified, thank heaven!†   (source)
  • "But of course, to be sure," James Tienappel concurred, somewhat intimidated by his foster brother, who spoke so calmly and in a monotone; the crisp autumn evening was close to freezing, yet there beside him sat Hans Castorp without hat or overcoat.†   (source)
  • "Yes, let's do that," he concurred, and with her beside him, he turned his grandfather's blue, thoughtful eyes, framed in a pallid face, to watch the costumed patients skip about in the salon here and in the reading room beyond.†   (source)
  • Jane Osborne could not but concur in these opinions respecting her sister's conduct; and when Mrs. Frederick's first-born, Frederick Augustus Howard Stanley Devereux Bullock, was born, old Osborne, who was invited to the christening and to be godfather, contented himself with sending the child a gold cup, with twenty guineas inside it for the nurse.†   (source)
  • Peggotty gave it as her opinion that she even slept with one eye open; but I could not concur in this idea; for I tried it myself after hearing the suggestion thrown out, and found it couldn't be done.†   (source)
  • The great doctor spent the night at Gardencourt and, returning to London on the morrow, after another consultation with Mr. Touchett's own medical adviser, concurred in Ralph's desire that he should see the patient again on the day following.†   (source)
  • Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful.†   (source)
  • A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that no other woman would have suited him so well, and does a little daily snapping and quarrelling without any sense of alienation.†   (source)
  • "And also of what Sir Leicester said upon it, in which I quite concur"—Sir Leicester flattered—"and if you cannot give us the assurance that this fancy is at an end, I have come to the conclusion that the girl had better leave me."†   (source)
  • Several causes may concur to render the manners of a people less rude; but, of all these causes, the most powerful appears to me to be the equality of conditions.†   (source)
  • Those who had concurred in the challenge adhered to his party of course, excepting only Ralph de Vipont, whom his fall had rendered unfit so soon to put on his armour.†   (source)
  • Consider, now, how it must be in the case of four boats all engaging one unusually strong, active, and knowing whale; when owing to these qualities in him, as well as to the thousand concurring accidents of such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be simultaneously dangling about him.†   (source)
  • I have often been favoured with the confidence of these select natures, and find them to concur in the experience that great men are overestimated and small men are insupportable; that if you would love a woman without ever looking back on your love as a folly, she must die while you are courting her; and if you would maintain the slightest belief in human heroism, you must never make a pilgrimage to see the hero.†   (source)
  • Independently of the laws, all these causes concur to exercise a very powerful influence upon the conduct of the finances of the State.†   (source)
  • The two physicians, for a wonder, turned out to be unanimous, or rather, though of different minds, they concurred in action.†   (source)
  • …latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted; now that a vessel had been spoken which on the very day preceding had actually encountered Moby Dick;—and now that all his successive meetings with various ships contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference with which the white whale tore his hunters, whether sinning or sinned against; now it was that there lurked a something in the old man's eyes, which it was hardly sufferable for feeble souls to see.†   (source)
  • Several other circumstances concur in rendering the power of the majority in America not only preponderant, but irresistible.†   (source)
  • Or should he consult Sir James Chettam, and get him to concur in remonstrance against a step which touched the whole family?†   (source)
  • All Bills for Raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.†   (source)
  • Mrs Merdle concurred with all her heart—or with all her art, which was exactly the same thing—and herself despatched a preparatory letter by the next post to the eighth wonder of the world.†   (source)
  • It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.†   (source)
  • Much esteemed and dear Sir, It is scarcely necessary to mention the various and concurring reasons which induce me to place your name at the head of the following work.†   (source)
  • "Yet," said Rebecca, "you sate a judge upon me, innocent—most innocent—as you knew me to be—you concurred in my condemnation, and, if I aright understood, are yourself to appear in arms to assert my guilt, and assure my punishment."†   (source)
  • Bulstrode, it is not desirable, I think, to prolong the present discussion," said Mr. Thesiger, turning to the pallid trembling man; "I must so far concur with what has fallen from Mr. Hawley in expression of a general feeling, as to think it due to your Christian profession that you should clear yourself, if possible, from unhappy aspersions.†   (source)
  • What he says, I quite concur in.†   (source)
  • A thousand circumstances, independent of the will of man, concur to facilitate the maintenance of a democratic republic in the United States.†   (source)
  • I have already examined several of the incidents which may concur to promote the centralization of power, but the principal cause still remains to be noticed.†   (source)
  • The suspicions against me had no hold there: they are grounded on the knowledge that I took money, that Bulstrode had strong motives for wishing the man to die, and that he gave me the money as a bribe to concur in some malpractices or other against the patient—that in any case I accepted a bribe to hold my tongue.†   (source)
  • 2, Section 2, "shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur."†   (source)
  • As they look at objects under the same aspect, their minds naturally tend to analogous conclusions; and, though each of them may deviate from his contemporaries and from opinions of his own, they will involuntarily and unconsciously concur in a certain number of received opinions.†   (source)
  • Deputations without and voices within had concurred in inducing that philanthropist to take a stronger measure than usual for the good of mankind; namely, to withdraw in favor of another candidate, to whom he left the advantages of his canvassing machinery.†   (source)
  • As it becomes extremely difficult to discern and to analyze the reasons which, acting separately on the volition of each member of the community, concur in the end to produce movement in the old mass, men are led to believe that this movement is involuntary, and that societies unconsciously obey some superior force ruling over them.†   (source)
  • It would be easy for me to adduce a great number of secondary causes which have contributed to establish, and which concur to maintain, the democratic republic of the United States.†   (source)
  • Bulstrode concurred; but after advertisement as well as other modes of inquiry had been tried, the mother believed that her daughter was not to be found, and consented to marry without reservation of property.†   (source)
  • The ever-increasing numbers of men of property—lovers of peace, the growth of personal wealth which war so rapidly consumes, the mildness of manners, the gentleness of heart, those tendencies to pity which are engendered by the equality of conditions, that coolness of understanding which renders men comparatively insensible to the violent and poetical excitement of arms—all these causes concur to quench the military spirit.†   (source)
  • The theory of equality is in fact applied to the intellect of man: and human pride is thus assailed in its last retreat by a doctrine which the minority hesitate to admit, and in which they very slowly concur.†   (source)
  • Since the Act of Parliament, which had been hurriedly passed, authorizing assessments for sanitary measures, there had been a Board for the superintendence of such measures appointed in Middlemarch, and much cleansing and preparation had been concurred in by Whigs and Tories.†   (source)
  • Principal Causes Which Render Religion Powerful In America Care taken by the Americans to separate the Church from the State—The laws, public opinion, and even the exertions of the clergy concur to promote this end—Influence of religion upon the mind in the United States attributable to this cause—Reason of this—What is the natural state of men with regard to religion at the present time—What are the peculiar and incidental causes which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving…†   (source)
  • He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the…†   (source)
  • Their strictly Puritanical origin—their exclusively commercial habits—even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts—the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism—a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important—have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects.†   (source)
  • Nature and circumstances concurred to make the inhabitants of the United States bold men, as is sufficiently attested by the enterprising spirit with which they seek for fortune.†   (source)
  • To non-medical friends they had already concurred in praising the other young practitioner, who had come into the town on Mr. Peacock's retirement without further recommendation than his own merits and such argument for solid professional acquirement as might be gathered from his having apparently wasted no time on other branches of knowledge.†   (source)
  • The law has abolished the rights of primogeniture, but circumstances have concurred to re-establish it under a form of which none can complain, and by which no just rights are impaired.†   (source)
  • Pennsylvania was the only one of the United States which at first attempted to establish a single House of Assembly, and Franklin himself was so far carried away by the necessary consequences of the principle of the sovereignty of the people as to have concurred in the measure; but the Pennsylvanians were soon obliged to change the law, and to create two Houses.†   (source)
  • All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.†   (source)
  • In the one case, the Reader is utterly at the mercy of the Poet respecting what imagery or diction he may choose to connect with the passion, whereas, in the other, the metre obeys certain laws, to which the Poet and Reader both willingly submit because they are certain, and because no interference is made by them with the passion but such as the concurring testimony of ages has shewn to heighten and improve the pleasure which coexists with it.†   (source)
  • …ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS Having carefully considered the subject of the above discourses, and wondering within myself whether the present times were propitious to a new prince, and whether there were elements that would give an opportunity to a wise and virtuous one to introduce a new order of things which would do honour to him and good to the people of this country, it appears to me that so many things concur to favour a new prince that I never knew a time more fit than the present.†   (source)
  • He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the…†   (source)
  • RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.†   (source)
  • —Yes, to be sure, Mr Bloom unaffectedly concurred.†   (source)
  • And the new star! these things concurring, strange, And full of omen!†   (source)
  • Partridge likewise concurred with this opinion.†   (source)
  • A greater omen, and of worse portent, Did our unwary minds with fear torment, Concurring to produce the dire event.†   (source)
  • This concurs directly with the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may appear stubborn to him; for she incites me to that in the letter.†   (source)
  • The dangers of the days but newly gone, Whose memory is written on the earth With yet appearing blood, and the examples Of every minute's instance, present now, Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms, Not to break peace or any branch of it, But to establish here a peace indeed, Concurring, both in name and quality.†   (source)
  • As my will Concurred not to my being, it were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust; Desirous to resign and render back All I received; unable to perform Thy terms too hard, by which I was to hold The good I sought not.†   (source)
  • That which may perhaps make such equality incredible, is but a vain conceipt of ones owne wisdome, which almost all men think they have in a greater degree, than the Vulgar; that is, than all men but themselves, and a few others, whom by Fame, or for concurring with themselves, they approve.†   (source)
  • But notwithstanding the concurring testimony of experience, in this particular, there are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the States, though dismembered and alienated from each other.†   (source)
  • As both these learned men concurred in censuring Jones, so were they no less unanimous in applauding Master Blifil.†   (source)
  • The Margrave of Bruges was their head, and the chief man among them; but he that was esteemed the wisest, and that spoke for the rest, was George Temse, the Provost of Casselsee: both art and nature had concurred to make him eloquent: he was very learned in the law; and, as he had a great capacity, so, by a long practice in affairs, he was very dexterous at unravelling them.†   (source)
  • In short, by an unwearied importunity, my husband, who was apparently decaying, as I observed, was at last prevailed with; and so my own fate pushing me on, the way was made clear for me, and my mother concurring, I obtained a very good cargo for my coming to England.†   (source)
  • The President is to have power, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur.†   (source)
  • I was no sooner come back to the inn but he fell upon me with irresistible words, that since he had had the good fortune to meet me, and everything concurred, it would be hastening his felicity if I would put an end to the matter just there.†   (source)
  • I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand; Man should be seduced, And flattered out of all, believing lies Against his Maker; no decree of mine Concurring to necessitate his fall, Or touch with lightest moment of impulse His free will, to her own inclining left In even scale.†   (source)
  • Wee know that generally in all Common-wealths, the Execution of Corporeall Punishments, was either put upon the Guards, or other Souldiers of the Soveraign Power; or given to those, in whom want of means, contempt of honour, and hardnesse of heart, concurred, to make them sue for such an Office.†   (source)
  • For what inducement could the Senate have to concur in a preference in which itself would not be included?†   (source)
  • From them I go This uncouth errand sole, and one for all Myself expose, with lonely steps to tread Th' unfounded Deep, and through the void immense To search, with wandering quest, a place foretold Should be—and, by concurring signs, ere now Created vast and round—a place of bliss In the purlieus of Heaven; and therein placed A race of upstart creatures, to supply Perhaps our vacant room, though more removed, Lest Heaven, surcharged with potent multitude, Might hap to move new broils.†   (source)
  • Mr Supple is a man of sense, and gives you the best advice; and the whole world, I believe, will concur in his opinion; but I must tell you I expect an immediate answer to my categorical proposals.†   (source)
  • I found the next day she was wonderful inquisitive about this gentleman; the description I had given her of him, his dress, his person, his face, everything concurred to make her think of a gentleman whose character she knew, and family too.†   (source)
  • Nor do I doubt, while I make their interest the great rule of my writings, they will unanimously concur in supporting my dignity, and in rendering me all the honour I shall deserve or desire.†   (source)
  • It is this that the national rulers, whenever nine States concur, will have no option upon the subject.†   (source)
  • But everything concurred so exactly with the stories she had told me of herself, and which, if she had not told me, she would perhaps have been content to have denied, that she had stopped her own mouth, and she had nothing to do but to take me about the neck and kiss me, and cry most vehemently over me, without speaking one word for a long time together.†   (source)
  • "We concur fully," reply others, "in the objection to this part of the plan, but we can never agree that a reference of impeachments to the judiciary authority would be an amendment of the error.†   (source)
  • There was indeed a great many concurring circumstances in this adventure which assisted to my escape; but the chief was, that the woman whose watch I had pulled at was a fool; that is to say, she was ignorant of the nature of the attempt, which one would have thought she should not have been, seeing she was wise enough to fasten her watch so that it could not be slipped up.†   (source)
  • For she did not in the least doubt, but that the prudent lady, who had often ridiculed romantic love, and indiscreet marriages, in her conversation, would very readily concur in her sentiments concerning this match, and would lend her utmost assistance to prevent it.†   (source)
  • The second section gives power to the President, "BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE, TO MAKE TREATIES, PROVIDED TWO THIRDS OF THE SENATORS PRESENT CONCUR."†   (source)
  • "In the former part of what you said," replied Jones, "I most heartily and readily concur; but I believe, as well as hope, that the abhorrence which you express for mankind in the conclusion, is much too general.†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: THE President is to have power, "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur."†   (source)
  • They both concurred in their censures on her conduct; jointly declared war against her, and directly proceeded to counsel, how to carry it on in the most vigorous manner.†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: IN ADDITION to the defects already enumerated in the existing federal system, there are others of not less importance, which concur in rendering it altogether unfit for the administration of the affairs of the Union.†   (source)
  • For this reason, principally, the two gentlemen concurred, as we have seen above, in their opinion concerning the two lads; this being, indeed, almost the only instance of their concurring on any point; for, beside the difference of their principles, they had both long ago strongly suspected each other's design, and hated one another with no little degree of inveteracy.†   (source)
  • Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!†   (source)
  • In the same manner, the very moment Mr Maclachlan had mentioned his apprehension, Mr Fitzpatrick instantly concurred, and flew directly up-stairs, to surprize his wife, before he knew where she was; and unluckily (as Fortune loves to play tricks with those gentlemen who put themselves entirely under her conduct) ran his head against several doors and posts to no purpose.†   (source)
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