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  • At this, Paul's mother muttered reluctant assent.  (source)
    assent = consent or agreement
  • Their murmurs of assent and disapproval gave her a sense of order and rightness.  (source)
    assent = agreement
  • There was a murmur of assent.  (source)
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  • She takes my silence as assent.  (source)
    assent = consent or agreement
  • Roger Chillingworth readily assented, and went on with his medical supervision of the minister; doing his best for him, in all good faith, but always quitting the patient's apartment, at the close of the professional interview, with a mysterious and puzzled smile upon his lips.  (source)
    assented = consented or agreed
  • Her full lips were lax, her shoulders down, and her eyes soft and assenting.†  (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)
  • She smiled assentingly, and then made a slight grimace.†  (source)
  • She nodded her assent.  (source)
    assent = consent or agreement
  • Phil assented.†  (source)
  • Silence, a murmur of assenting voices.†  (source)
  • 'True," assents Tjaden, "but no war at all would be better still."†  (source)
  • The Nubian smiled assentingly to his master's words, then, kneeling on one knee, respectfully kissed the hand of the count.†  (source)
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