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  • Drunken shouts of assent.†   (source)
  • They assented.†   (source)
  • I SUPPOSE SHE ASSENTED TO THE ASSERTIONS ….†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of assent from the men.†   (source)
  • Eragon mumbled his assent and pulled the blankets over his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Del responded with the type of silence I had come to interpret as assent.†   (source)
  • He was anxious to see if the wheel worked, but at the same time "would gladly have assented to postpone the trial."†   (source)
  • The man has never been born who, finding himself married to Ingrid Bergman, would assent to sleeping in twinbeds.†   (source)
  • Their murmurs of assent and disapproval gave her a sense of order and rightness.†   (source)
  • Father gave a bow of assent and Meyer plunged into verse.†   (source)
  • A grumble of assent rose from the crowd.†   (source)
  • Ellerby nods assent.†   (source)
  • Inspector Thomas Mathew nodded his assent and left.†   (source)
  • This brought a loud murmur of assent with several 'hear, hear's' and some applause.†   (source)
  • "Of course," assented Jesus, grinning back at him.†   (source)
  • There was a chorus of friendly assent as the men settled onto their stools at the bar.†   (source)
  • Some of the older satyrs muttered assent.†   (source)
  • I mean to say something sharp, or nonchalant, but the only sound that escapes me is an assenting noise, squeezed tight by my swollen throat.†   (source)
  • Jace nodded assent, and explained quickly the trick that Valentine had played on Elias.†   (source)
  • But instead of prompting scoffs or disapproving whispers, Graham's words unleashed a tide of murmured assent that swelled quickly into shouts.†   (source)
  • She nodded in assent, but her eyes were raging with curiosity.†   (source)
  • I gave a little bow of assent to this, and we set off together down the alley in the direction of Maruyama Park.†   (source)
  • A tide of murmuring assent poured out the doors and into the yard.†   (source)
  • Then he nodded his assent.†   (source)
  • When they finally assented, I was grateful.†   (source)
  • He assented, with a smile.†   (source)
  • Miles away, there was a gasp of assent rising, coming near.†   (source)
  • He met the reverend on equal terms, disagreeing with him where others simply assented.†   (source)
  • She takes my silence as assent.†   (source)
  • "Uh-huh," assented Buckheath.†   (source)
  • A couple of days of gray stubble surrounded his untrimmed mustache and Matt thought the man had seized upon old age, embraced it with a kind of reckless assent.†   (source)
  • There were murmurs of assent all around.†   (source)
  • Instead of responding in anger to the suggestion, Nemo nodded his assent.†   (source)
  • At that she moved her head to one side and studied me carefully, then seemed to smile despite herself and to nod in assent.†   (source)
  • 'I couldn't agree with you more, sir,' he assented briskly in a tone of ostentatious disapproval.†   (source)
  • Last year, Cedric said he didn't want to go on Tuesdays, that he had too much homework, and she assented.†   (source)
  • At last everyone assented to the following: the parade would be headed by one American, one Frenchman, and the Cambodian interpreter; next would come the doctors, and only then the rest of the crowd.†   (source)
  • Thomas Stone stammered assent.†   (source)
  • There was a general assent.†   (source)
  • She gestured assent.†   (source)
  • To this summons you must not, you cannot, refuse your assent.†   (source)
  • I saw some wisdom in what he proposed and assented to it.†   (source)
  • Her black sounds charmed me, and she wove her black ribbons as the rain hammered assent.†   (source)
  • A dozen others began to yammer their assent.†   (source)
  • Their assents came in, then presently the rest of them withdrew, leaving Rosalind and me to discuss how I could best tackle Petra.†   (source)
  • Murmurs of assent came from the members, but Carter appeared doubtful.†   (source)
  • He remained standing, but he inclined his head a little, in assent, and said, "I will listen, if that will help you."†   (source)
  • Because of my father, my childhood was a long march of fear; my mother's dispassionate assent to his authority took me longer to discover.†   (source)
  • On Walpurgisnacht, we celebrate a sacred evening and commemorate the great moments of our past… There was a hissing murmur of assent from the demons.†   (source)
  • I grunt in assent, sipping the liquor.†   (source)
  • In his Second Inaugural Address, on March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln stated a proposition to which most historians today as well as most Americans of Lincoln's time would assent: slavery before the war had been a "powerful interest.†   (source)
  • No political relationship will continue to exist between the assenting and dissenting States.†   (source)
  • Everything now hinged on the assent of Heafstaag, a brutal king interested only in personal glory and triumphant plunder.†   (source)
  • She nodded her assent.†   (source)
  • Silence, a murmur of assenting voices.†   (source)
  • To this the king assented, and the captains departed.†   (source)
  • But it had to be assented to.†   (source)
  • She blinked her eyes rapidly to indicate assent.†   (source)
  • He would give his assent.†   (source)
  • Somebody had murmured something embarrassed about identification and he had answered sharply that they'd managed to phone the family, hadn't they? and again they had murmured embarrassedly, and ashamed of his sharpness he had assented, and there in the light of the one bulb one of the men had gently turned down the sheet (for he gathered a little later that the blacksmith's wife, finding him covered with a reeking horse blanket, had hurried to bring this sheet); and there he was; and…†   (source)
  • He spoke quickly, as if to give himself no time to repent of his offer, and hurried away even before my husband had assented.†   (source)
  • There was a shouted chorus of assent.†   (source)
  • "Yes," he assented, "oh yes."†   (source)
  • There's a rumble of assent from around the table.†   (source)
  • The woman assented, but continued to call.†   (source)
  • There was a dull murmur of assent throughout the class.†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of assent and everybody moved forwards to collect one from the basket.†   (source)
  • All around me, the Dauntless shout their assent.†   (source)
  • There are murmurs of assent and then, to my horror, I hear the pack heading toward me.†   (source)
  • This brought a general murmur of assent.†   (source)
  • " Finnick's remark is followed by a general rumble of assent, but I stay silent.†   (source)
  • I give Peeta a nod of assent and hurry back into the house, locking the door behind me.†   (source)
  • Someone assents with a shout, and someone else joins in.†   (source)
  • Even before he finished speaking, Eragon was nodding his assent.†   (source)
  • A murmur of assent swept the Merman's Court.†   (source)
  • As they nodded their assent, the transformation had already begun.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir," Alexander answered forcefully, with Braselton nodding his vigorous assent.†   (source)
  • Their affair was carried on with his assent.†   (source)
  • Yes, honey, it's three days and three nights," assented Laurella fearfully.†   (source)
  • "For goodness sake, Franklin, you don't always have to assent!" she said, her voice suddenly rising.†   (source)
  • Mutters of assent went up from those around him.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar nodded his assent, though he looked upon Drizzt with concern.†   (source)
  • The Lord of the Radch gestured a silent assent.†   (source)
  • The She-Bear gave her grudging assent, deaf to the japery in his tone.†   (source)
  • "This is great," chirps the boy, as the girl laughs in assent.†   (source)
  • Ian took this as an assent and fell into step behind me.†   (source)
  • Yet it was she who spoke up for me, and it was her words that swayed my father to give his assent.†   (source)
  • I assented openly, for the first time feeling somehow equal to him, imminently free.†   (source)
  • "Yes, there did," Johnnie assented wonderingly—falteringly.†   (source)
  • Elinor seemed on the point of assenting, but I took her quickly to one side.†   (source)
  • Drizzt and Bruenor nodded their assent, though Regis shook his head.†   (source)
  • Yeah, they're fine looking," Cedric says, nodding his head in assent.†   (source)
  • "Indeed it is not," assented MacPherson hastily.†   (source)
  • "Like as not, bud," Pros assented gravely.†   (source)
  • "I reckon we are right funny," she assented.†   (source)
  • They expected it and nodded their heads in solemn, collective assent.†   (source)
  • Her continued silence, which was pure opposition, drove him to insist on an assent from her.†   (source)
  • She assented, rather dubiously, for she did not really want to go.†   (source)
  • But I nod my head in assent.†   (source)
  • ] "I suppose … yes …." said Slughorn in a rather agitated voice, while Hagrid let out a strangled sob of assent.†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of assent.†   (source)
  • There was a general murmur of assent.†   (source)
  • This has been on my mind ever since I saw Herbert, his face a picture of hatred, shooting at the enemy, and how eagerly the lads nodded their assent today when Brandt said we could destroy the French within a week.†   (source)
  • Mother wore a stern expression on her face, but she gave a little bow of assent and thanked the two of them for coming.†   (source)
  • "Please do," assented Mack.†   (source)
  • "Mmm," I sighed in assent.†   (source)
  • The crowd screams assent.†   (source)
  • The assembly assented gravely.†   (source)
  • "Mmm," I assented.†   (source)
  • A murmur of assent ran around the Hall.†   (source)
  • Alan grunted in assent, and soon he felt what seemed to be the entirety of a man's forearm on his head.†   (source)
  • "Of course," Amun said, his tone so emotionless that it was impossible to tell if there was any fear or sarcasm in his assent.†   (source)
  • In the end Riddle barked his assent.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hickey thanked me for my kindness, and though I assented, I didn't truly feel that it was kindness, on my part.†   (source)
  • Robb had dispatched Jeyne's uncle Rolph Spicer to deliver young Martyn Lannister to the Golden Tooth the very day he received Lord Tywin's assent to the exchange of captives.†   (source)
  • In the name of the Council, we swear by the River Styx to grant your reasonable request as long as it is within our power:' The other gods muttered assent.†   (source)
  • It manifested itself in small gestures: offers of condolences for his misfortune, respectful silence whenever he spoke, and murmurs of assent when he made a statement.†   (source)
  • Jared grunted his assent to that.†   (source)
  • Malm muttered his assent and then said: "Millennium functioned because you and Mikael were a good balance for each other."†   (source)
  • In February, 1787, Congress recommended: "Whereas there is provision in the Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union for making alterations therein, by the assent of Congress of the United States and the legislatures of the several States; and whereas experience has evinced that there are defects in the present Confederation; as a means to remedy which, several States, and particularly the State of New York, by express instructions to their delegates in Congress, have suggested a…†   (source)
  • The chaplain would encourage Nately with nods of comprehension or assent, amused by his candor and immaturity.†   (source)
  • A murmur of assent.†   (source)
  • His father sighed, nodded assent.†   (source)
  • Her head dropped, as if in assent and in greeting, but her hand bore down heavily upon her cane, for a moment, while she stood reliving their last encounter: the tortured hour of waiting, then the gently distant face at the desk and the tinkling of a glass-paneled door closing upon a stranger.†   (source)
  • To this I gladly assented.†   (source)
  • It didn't sound like assent.†   (source)
  • A chunky red-faced man shouted assent.†   (source)
  • "Someone has!" shouted a voice in the crowd, and mutterings of assent started, and grew and echoed around the vast stone space.†   (source)
  • His words drew mutters of assent.†   (source)
  • Even old Doniphos has given his assent.†   (source)
  • Thompson reads it and gives her assent.†   (source)
  • I muttered my assent into the darkness.†   (source)
  • Captain Vel gestured assent.†   (source)
  • The younger man looked also, and assented mutely, then suggested: "He hasn't come far; there's not a hair turned on him."†   (source)
  • "Ye-ah," he assented; "business.†   (source)
  • "Nor my own clothes, I reckon," he assented with a sort of rueful testiness; "but to the best of my knowin' and believin', I never in my life before saw this shirt I'm wearin'—every garment I've got on is a plumb stranger to me, Johnnie.†   (source)
  • "It is," she assented.†   (source)
  • And you require only one assent to win.†   (source)
  • And without waiting for their assent or withdrawal (for they were blocking the door) he strode forward, parting them with firm hands and saying "Isn't Miss L … They heard Aunt Hannah's voice behind them on the stairs, and turned.†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of assent, except from one man who said in a hostile voice: "Well, they are right.†   (source)
  • When he had said to Mary (thinking she might be longing for them) that they would have to wait, she had assented with a look of relief.†   (source)
  • The elder man grunted an assent and passed out.†   (source)
  • Mr Hardman assenting, Poirot pushed back the door of the safe and examined the interior.†   (source)
  • The priest got up and made a small scared gesture of assent.†   (source)
  • 'True," assents Tjaden, "but no war at all would be better still."†   (source)
  • For that price, God would surely nod in assent.†   (source)
  • "No leaps," assented Sir Palomides, "without previous looks."†   (source)
  • She murmured something that seemed to be assent.†   (source)
  • "Miss Brown" assented gracefully and moved toward the door.†   (source)
  • The old man folded his hands and closed his eyes in assent.†   (source)
  • Nobody assenting to this proposition, Mr. Davis turned and held up a finger.†   (source)
  • Receiving an assent to this, the curtains were drawn and the lamps turned on.†   (source)
  • It involved humiliation, but a humiliation to which the person humiliated gave full assent.†   (source)
  • There is a dull, resentful chorus of assent, "We don't give a damn.†   (source)
  • They all growl assent, glowering defiantly at Moran.†   (source)
  • They all chorus hearty sentimental assent: "That's right, Harry!"†   (source)
  • There is a muttered growl of assent from most of the gathering.†   (source)
  • They burst into a chorus of eager assent: "Yes, Harry!"†   (source)
  • They all laughingly assent.†   (source)
  • Her voice was raised questioningly, as though she hung on Gerald's assent to her plan, a mere formality but one dear to the heart of Gerald.†   (source)
  • Before I had been made to go to church, I had given God's existence a sort of tacit assent, but after having seen His creatures serve Him at first hand, I had had my doubts.†   (source)
  • Rutherford assented.†   (source)
  • All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom.†   (source)
  • I want him to make some little sign of assent; I want him, anyway, not to refuse me; then I want to give him God's pardon.†   (source)
  • "Quite true," the Prefect assented, "but I shall need your professional declaration that the epidemic is one of plague."†   (source)
  • " "You're right there," Jack assented.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Reverend Sir," said the venerable Ananda to The Blessed One in assent, and spread the couch with its head to the north between twin sal-trees.†   (source)
  • Tags like A CONSIDERATION WHICH WE SHOULD DO WELL TO BEAR IN MIND OR A CONCLUSION TO WHICH ALL OF US WOULD READILY ASSENT will save many a sentence from coming down with a bump.†   (source)
  • All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom.†   (source)
  • " "All right," he assented.†   (source)
  • An eager assent greeted this proposal.†   (source)
  • I did not actually believe in ghosts, but I had been taught that there was a God and I had given a kind of uneasy assent to His existence, and if there was a God, then surely there must be ghosts.†   (source)
  • M. Poirot assented.†   (source)
  • Scarlett could only nod, a strangled feeling in her throat, and she gently pressed the hand she held by way of assent.†   (source)
  • His period of donhood at Oxford gave him some right to assent, but he knew that the word, though the highest of compliments from a Chinese, had yet a faintly priggish sound for English ears, and chiefly out of consideration for his companions he demurred to it.†   (source)
  • It was the threat of the convent that finally won the assent of bewildered and heartstricken Pierre Robillard.†   (source)
  • " "Sure," Jack assented.†   (source)
  • I assented after a moment's thought.†   (source)
  • Four voices gave assent-and then immediately afterwards gave quick surreptitious glances at each other.†   (source)
  • The white pyramid in the distance compelled the mind's assent as passionlessly as a Euclidean theorem, and when at last the sun rose into a sky of deep delphinium blue, he felt only a little less than comfortable again.†   (source)
  • They nodded their assent.†   (source)
  • (a muttered chorus of assent) HICKEY—(as if he hadn't heard this—an obsessed look on his face) The one possible way to make up to her for all I'd made her go through, and get her rid of me so I couldn't make her suffer any more, and she wouldn't have to forgive me again!†   (source)
  • They all assent.†   (source)
  • (Christian nods in assent): Baron de Neuvillette.†   (source)
  • The youth did not look up, but he assented with thick tongue.†   (source)
  • I nodded, for I thought it better to assent, though I did not quite understand his dialect.†   (source)
  • "Oh, he DID," Mrs. Grose assented: "it was the way he liked everyone!"†   (source)
  • "Why, of course, if you want me to," assented Anne cheerfully.†   (source)
  • She smiled assentingly, and then made a slight grimace.†   (source)
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