All 20 Uses of
assent
in
Bleak House
- "Quite so," assented Mr. Kenge; "—that Mrs. Rachael should charge herself with your maintenance and support (I beg you won't distress yourself), you are in a position to receive the renewal of an offer which I was instructed to make to Miss Barbary some two years ago and which, though rejected then, was understood to be renewable under the lamentable circumstances that have since occurred.†
Chpt 1-3
- I assented with a smile.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Mr. Guppy yielding his assent to this proposal, Jo is requested to follow into the drawing-room doorway, where Mr. Guppy takes him in hand as a witness, patting him into this shape, that shape, and the other shape like a butterman dealing with so much butter, and worrying him according to the best models.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. Tulkinghorn assents.†
Chpt 22-24
- To all I said, Richard readily assented, riding over the court and everything else in his easy way and drawing the brightest pictures of the character he was to settle into—alas, when the grievous suit should loose its hold upon him!†
Chpt 22-24
- Mr. George, entirely assenting, puts on his hat and prepares to march with Mr. Bagnet to the enemy's camp.†
Chpt 34-36
- The remark being made to me in consequence of my being next him as we walked, I assented and enumerated its chief attractions.†
Chpt 37-39
- Let us see," mademoiselle assents, with many angry and tight nods of her head.†
Chpt 40-42
- "It showed a want of poetry in the man," Mr. Skimpole assented, but with perfect good humour.†
Chpt 43-45
- "There's something in that," his wife assents; "but so it is, Lignum."†
Chpt 49-51
- "It might open a new world to him," said I. "So it might, little woman," my guardian assented.†
Chpt 49-51
- The old girl promptly makes a sign of entreaty to him to say nothing; assenting with a nod, he suffers them to enter as he shuts the door.†
Chpt 55-57
- As he evidently has a rooted feeling on this point, and as the depth of it is recognized in Mrs. Bagnet's face, his mother yields her implicit assent to what he asks.†
Chpt 55-57
- "Poor creature!" said I. "Poor enough," assented Mr. Bucket, "and trouble enough, and well enough away from London, or anywhere else.†
Chpt 55-57
- George, with a look of assent and sympathy, makes another bow.†
Chpt 58-60
- "Just so," assented Mr. Vholes again.†
Chpt 58-60
- I incautiously gave a qualified assent to this.†
Chpt 61-63
- Mr. Smallweed glanced with a troubled eye at us and grudgingly nodded assent.†
Chpt 61-63
- "That's what was agreed," Mr. Smallweed assented with the same bad grace.†
Chpt 61-63
- The ironmaster, repressing his amused smile, assents.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(assent) to express agreement -- especially with a statement or proposal to do something