All 6 Uses of
assent
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Elinor could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation.†
Chpt 20 *
- He paused for her assent and compassion; and she forced herself to say, "Your expenses both in town and country must certainly be considerable; but your income is a large one."†
Chpt 33
- They all looked their assent; it seemed too awful a moment for speech.†
Chpt 37
- Elinor bowed her assent.†
Chpt 44
- Elinor could NOT remember it;—but her mother, without waiting for her assent, continued, "And his manners, the Colonel's manners are not only more pleasing to me than Willoughby's ever were, but they are of a kind I well know to be more solidly attaching to Marianne.†
Chpt 45
- Marianne assented most feelingly to the remark; and her mother was led by it to an enumeration of Colonel Brandon's injuries and merits, warm as friendship and design could unitedly dictate.†
Chpt 47
Definition:
to express agreement -- especially with a statement or proposal to do something