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  • In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.   (source)
    assents = agreements
  • He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.   (source)
    assent = consent or agreement
  • Phil assented.†   (source)
  • I assented.†   (source)
  • Mother assented.†   (source)
  • Then we see STEVE nod his assent.†   (source)
  • Crouch gave no sign that he had heard Mr. Diggory, but Mr. Diggory seemed to take his silence for assent.†   (source)
  • Drunken shouts of assent.†   (source)
  • Her full lips were lax, her shoulders down, and her eyes soft and assenting.†   (source)
  • A collective assent to this rumbled through the blurring atmosphere of the Assembly Room.†   (source)
  • As she saw the dress make its perfect, clinging fit around her cousin and witnessed her mother's heartless smile, Briony knew her only reasonable choice then would be to run away, to live under hedges, eat berries and speak to no one, and be found by a bearded woodsman one winter's dawn, curled up at the base of a giant oak, beautiful and dead, and barefoot, or perhaps wearing the ballet pumps with the pink ribbon straps ....Self-pity needed her full attention, and only in solitude could she breathe life into the lacerating details, but at the instant of her assent—how the tilt of a skull could change a life!†   (source)
  • A noise comes from among us, a formless assent.†   (source)
  • Inspector Thomas Mathew nodded his assent and left.†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of assent from the men.†   (source)
  • Eragon mumbled his assent and pulled the blankets over his shoulders.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • There was a chorus of friendly assent as the men settled onto their stools at the bar.†   (source)
  • Del responded with the type of silence I had come to interpret as assent.†   (source)
  • "Of course," assented Jesus, grinning back at him.†   (source)
  • The man has never been born who, finding himself married to Ingrid Bergman, would assent to sleeping in twinbeds.†   (source)
  • I SUPPOSE SHE ASSENTED TO THE ASSERTIONS ...THAT THERE WERE NO PEOPLE WHO HAD SO MUCH IMPUDENCE AS THE AMERICANS—FOR THERE WAS NOT ANY PEOPLE BRED EVEN AT COURTS WHO HAD SO MUCH CONFIDENCE AS THE AMERICANS.†   (source)
  • Father gave a bow of assent and Meyer plunged into verse.†   (source)
  • She gestured assent.†   (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)
  • She nodded in assent, but her eyes were raging with curiosity.†   (source)
  • He was anxious to see if the wheel worked, but at the same time "would gladly have assented to postpone the trial."†   (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)
  • Ellerby nods assent.†   (source)
  • Then he nodded his assent.†   (source)
  • Miles away, there was a gasp of assent rising, coming near.†   (source)
  • A grumble of assent rose from the crowd.†   (source)
  • Silence, a murmur of assenting voices.†   (source)
  • He assented, with a smile.†   (source)
  • This brought a loud murmur of assent with several 'hear, hear's' and some applause.†   (source)
  • He met the reverend on equal terms, disagreeing with him where others simply assented.†   (source)
  • But instead of prompting scoffs or disapproving whispers, Graham's words unleashed a tide of murmured assent that swelled quickly into shouts.†   (source)
  • Jace nodded assent, and explained quickly the trick that Valentine had played on Elias.†   (source)
  • Thomas Stone stammered assent.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • When they finally assented, I was grateful.†   (source)
  • "Uh-huh," assented Buckheath.†   (source)
  • A tide of murmuring assent poured out the doors and into the yard.†   (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)
  • A murmur of assent swept the Merman's Court.†   (source)
  • 'I couldn't agree with you more, sir,' he assented briskly in a tone of ostentatious disapproval.†   (source)
  • There was a general assent.†   (source)
  • There were murmurs of assent all around.†   (source)
  • Instead of responding in anger to the suggestion, Nemo nodded his 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)
  • He remained standing, but he inclined his head a little, in assent, and said, "I will listen, if that will help you."†   (source)
  • Murmurs of assent came from the members, but Carter appeared doubtful.†   (source)
  • Everything now hinged on the assent of Heafstaag, a brutal king interested only in personal glory and triumphant plunder.†   (source)
  • I grunt in assent, sipping the liquor.†   (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)
  • Her black sounds charmed me, and she wove her black ribbons as the rain hammered assent.†   (source)
  • No political relationship will continue to exist between the assenting and dissenting States.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She blinked her eyes rapidly to indicate assent.†   (source)
  • To this the king assented, and the captains departed.†   (source)
  • But it had to be assented to.†   (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)
  • He would give his assent.†   (source)
  • 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 Andrew nodded, and made himself say, "Yes, and he heard Walter's deep, quiet breathing at his shoulder and heard him say, "Yes, and he stood a little aside in order that Walter might have room, and together they stood silent and looked at the uncovered head.†   (source)
  • There was a shouted chorus of assent.†   (source)
  • "Yes," he assented, "oh yes."†   (source)
  • Receiving an assent to this, the curtains were drawn and the lamps turned on.   (source)
  • Nobody assenting to this proposition, Mr. Davis turned and held up a finger.   (source)
    assenting = agreeing
  • To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's vulgar relations.   (source)
    assent = agreement
  • Mr. Collins readily assented, and a book was produced; but, on beholding it (for everything announced it to be from a circulating library), he started back, and begging pardon, protested that he never read novels.   (source)
    assented = consented or agreed
  • He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.   (source)
    assent = consent or agreement
  • He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.   (source)
  • He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many…   (source)
  • There was a dull murmur of assent throughout the class.†   (source)
  • The woman assented, but continued to call.†   (source)
  • There's a rumble of assent from around the table.†   (source)
  • Some of the older satyrs muttered assent.†   (source)
  • The Lord of the Radch gestured a silent assent.†   (source)
  • Finnick's remark is followed by a general rumble of assent, but I stay silent.†   (source)
  • All around me, the Dauntless shout their assent.†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of assent and everybody moved forwards to collect one from the basket.†   (source)
  • Someone assents with a shout, and someone else joins in.†   (source)
  • I give Peeta a nod of assent and hurry back into the house, locking the door behind me.†   (source)
  • A dozen others began to yammer their assent.†   (source)
  • Even before he finished speaking, Eragon was nodding his assent.†   (source)
  • As they nodded their assent, the transformation had already begun.†   (source)
  • Yet it was she who spoke up for me, and it was her words that swayed my father to give his assent.†   (source)
  • The She-Bear gave her grudging assent, deaf to the japery in his tone.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar nodded his assent, though he looked upon Drizzt with concern.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir," Alexander answered forcefully, with Braselton nodding his vigorous assent.†   (source)
  • Mutters of assent went up from those around him.†   (source)
  • This brought a general murmur of assent.†   (source)
  • Ian took this as an assent and fell into step behind me.†   (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)
  • Their affair was carried on with his assent.†   (source)
  • "This is great," chirps the boy, as the girl laughs in assent.†   (source)
  • Yeah, they're fine looking," Cedric says, nodding his head in assent.†   (source)
  • "Yes, there did," Johnnie assented wonderingly—falteringly.†   (source)
  • I assented openly, for the first time feeling somehow equal to him, imminently free.†   (source)
  • Drizzt and Bruenor nodded their assent, though Regis shook his head.†   (source)
  • Elinor seemed on the point of assenting, but I took her quickly to one side.†   (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)
  • "I suppose ...yes ...." said Slughorn in a rather agitated voice, while Hagrid let out a strangled sob of assent.†   (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)
  • But I nod my head in assent.†   (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)
  • There was a general murmur of assent.†   (source)
  • "Mmm," I sighed in assent.†   (source)
  • "Please do," assented Mack.†   (source)
  • "Someone has!" shouted a voice in the crowd, and mutterings of assent started, and grew and echoed around the vast stone space.†   (source)
  • "Mmm," I assented.†   (source)
  • Captain Vel gestured assent.†   (source)
  • In the end Riddle barked his assent.†   (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)
  • Mrs. Hickey thanked me for my kindness, and though I assented, I didn't truly feel that it was kindness, on my part.†   (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)
  • A murmur of assent ran around the Hall.†   (source)
  • Malm muttered his assent and then said: "Millennium functioned because you and Mikael were a good balance for each other."†   (source)
  • The chaplain would encourage Nately with nods of comprehension or assent, amused by his candor and immaturity.†   (source)
  • A murmur of assent.†   (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 convention for the purposes expressed in the following resolution; and such convention appearing to be the most probable means of establishing in these States a firm national government: 5.†   (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)
  • His words drew mutters of assent.†   (source)
  • A chunky red-faced man shouted assent.†   (source)
  • It didn't sound like assent.†   (source)
  • Thompson reads it and gives her assent.†   (source)
  • Even old Doniphos has given his assent.†   (source)
  • I muttered my assent into the darkness.†   (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)
  • There was a murmur of assent, except from one man who said in a hostile voice: "Well, they are right.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 'Yes!' the Father of the Marshalsea assented.†   (source)
  • 'Why, of course, of course,' assented Mr Meagles.†   (source)
  • Mr Blandois proposed having the largest glasses in the house, to which Mr Flintwinch assented.†   (source)
  • 'I think, the very words, Miss Dorrit,' assented Mrs Merdle.†   (source)
  • 'Well, Miss Dorrit,' assented Mrs Merdle, 'perhaps I might have mentioned that before.†   (source)
  • 'Odd enough,' assented Clennam in the same tone, 'but we have succeeded; that's the main point.†   (source)
  • 'Having no authority, or influence—yes,' assented Clennam.†   (source)
  • John assented, and he crept back in the shadow of the wall to his own lodging.†   (source)
  • Little Dorrit thought of the competition that was to be entered upon, and assented very softly.†   (source)
  • Young John assenting, Pancks dealt him his card, and consulted his hand again.†   (source)
  • 'Quite so, my dear,' assented Fanny, as she dried her eyes.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, it's pretty fresh,' assented Pancks.†   (source)
  • ' The other, not unmoved, assented.†   (source)
  • She signified her assent, and he unlocked a door and conducted her up a side staircase into a dwelling-house above.†   (source)
  • Mrs Clennam signified assent; then added, 'No more of business on this day,' and then added, 'Affery, it is nine o'clock.'†   (source)
  • But he did not receive it with unqualified assent; on the contrary, he said, No, gentlemen, no; let them not misunderstand him.†   (source)
  • 'But it is of no use saying yes, yes, my dear Frederick,' the Father of the Marshalsea in his mild wisdom persisted, 'unless you act on that assent.†   (source)
  • 'Without giving an unqualified assent to what you say,' returned Arthur, gloomily, 'I am much obliged to you for your interest in me.'†   (source)
  • 'Why—yes—I believe so,' assented Mr Merdle, putting the spoon aside, and clumsily hiding each of his hands in the coat-cuff of the other hand.†   (source)
  • Mr Sparkler was going to say 'No?' interrogatively, but he saw his danger and said it assentingly, 'No, Oh dear no; she wouldn't do here alone.'†   (source)
  • 'Truly,' assented the Patriarch, with a shining face as he philanthropically smiled at the fire, 'none at all, sir.†   (source)
  • Arthur assented, and said once more with new expression, 'If you would be so good as to give me the address.'†   (source)
  • 'Not,' assented Mr Merdle, after having examined the cornice of all that part of the room which was within his range: 'not that it is of any consequence.'†   (source)
  • 'Not a bit,' assented Clennam.†   (source)
  • 'Ha—no,' assented Mr Dorrit.†   (source)
  • 'Quite so,' assented his partner.†   (source)
  • 'Martigny,' assented her brother, with a slight nod and a slight wink; in acknowledgment of which, Miss Fanny looked surprised, and laughed and reddened.†   (source)
  • 'No, to be sure,' he assented.†   (source)
  • The old lady with the high nose assented; but added that if Augustus Stiltstalking had in a general way ordered the cavalry out with instructions to charge, she thought the country would have been preserved.†   (source)
  • The lady placidly assented.†   (source)
  • 'True,' assented Jeremiah.†   (source)
  • 'We shall see,' she assented.†   (source)
  • 'I ran out,' assented Mrs Tickit, 'as fast as ever my feet would carry me; and if you'll credit it, Mr Clennam, there wasn't in the whole shining Heavens, no not so much as a finger of that young woman.'†   (source)
  • The noble Refrigerator assented; but added that if William Barnacle and Tudor Stiltstalking, when they came over to one another and formed their ever-memorable coalition, had boldly muzzled the newspapers, and rendered it penal for any Editor-person to presume to discuss the conduct of any appointed authority abroad or at home, he thought the country would have been preserved.†   (source)
  • 'True," assents Tjaden, "but no war at all would be better still."†   (source)
  • "No leaps," assented Sir Palomides, "without previous looks."†   (source)
  • Mr Hardman assenting, Poirot pushed back the door of the safe and examined the interior.†   (source)
  • For that price, God would surely nod in assent.†   (source)
  • The elder man grunted an assent and passed out.†   (source)
  • The old man folded his hands and closed his eyes in assent.†   (source)
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