All 16 Uses of
assent
in
Great Expectations
- "Of course, or girl, Mr. Hubble," assented Mr. Wopsle, rather irritably, "but there is no girl present."†
p. 26.8 *
- "Certainly!" assented Joe.†
p. 49.3
- Mr. Pumblechook winked assent; from which I at once inferred that he had never seen Miss Havisham, for she was nothing of the kind.†
p. 70.0
- Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly.†
p. 79.7
- "What is easier, you know?" assented Miss Sarah Pocket.†
p. 90.9
- "No, Pip," Joe assented, as if he had been contending for that, all along; "and what I say to you is, you are right, Pip."†
p. 118.5
- At length it had come into my head that the sign looked like a hammer, and on my lustily calling that word in my sister's ear, she had begun to hammer on the table and had expressed a qualified assent.†
p. 131.1
- "No, no," my guardian assented; "don't have too much to do with him.†
p. 228.4
- I modestly assented, and we all fell through a little dirty swing door, into a sort of hot packing-case immediately behind it.†
p. 271.5
- He nodded assent, and pulled out his thief-dreaded watch, and asked me where I was going to dine?†
p. 308.7
- "Yes," I assented.†
p. 376.7
- I cordially assented.†
p. 391.1
- It was as much as I could do to assent.†
p. 413.3
- "So!" said she, assenting with her head, but not looking at me.†
p. 421.5
- Herbert assented to all this, and we went out immediately after breakfast to pursue our investigations.†
p. 445.1
- "The man says," Joe assented.†
p. 499.9
Definition:
to express agreement -- especially with a statement or proposal to do something