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."†
Chpt 4 *
- "Certainly!" assented Joe.†
Chpt 7
- Mr. Pumblechook winked assent; from which I at once inferred that he had never seen Miss Havisham, for she was nothing of the kind.†
Chpt 9
- Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly.†
Chpt 10
- "What is easier, you know?" assented Miss Sarah Pocket.†
Chpt 11
- "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."†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 16
- "No, no," my guardian assented; "don't have too much to do with him.†
Chpt 26
- I modestly assented, and we all fell through a little dirty swing door, into a sort of hot packing-case immediately behind it.†
Chpt 31
- He nodded assent, and pulled out his thief-dreaded watch, and asked me where I was going to dine?†
Chpt 36
- "Yes," I assented.†
Chpt 43
- I cordially assented.†
Chpt 45
- It was as much as I could do to assent.†
Chpt 48
- "So!" said she, assenting with her head, but not looking at me.†
Chpt 49
- Herbert assented to all this, and we went out immediately after breakfast to pursue our investigations.†
Chpt 52
- "The man says," Joe assented.†
Chpt 57
Definition:
to express agreement -- especially with a statement or proposal to do something