Accepting

Examples

• And at Miss Halcombe's service, if she will honour me by accepting all the assistance I can offer her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Butthat he should talk of encouragement, should consider her as aware of his views, accepting his attentions, meaning (in short), to marry him! Jane Austen. Emma.
• The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Accepting your illustration, surely we have one unquestionable virtue in England which is wanting in China. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I am entirely at your service, if you will honour me by accepting my arm. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She knew it was equivalent to accepting Gerald Crich as a lover. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Paul, who was unused to him and his impulses, would naturally have bungled at this offer--declined accepting the same--et cetera. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When she came there of an evening, she always shrunk from accepting his escort home, and ran away with me instead. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But he was not able to admit he was wrong that quickly and he said it anyway to delay the moment of humiliation, not accepting any humiliation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• So it ended by my accepting, and I went down to Chiltern Grange, about six miles from Farnham. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Next to accepting a large sum on the spot, I believe this gave Peggotty more comfort than anything I could have done. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Will you favour me by accepting a tract? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It begins by accepting human nature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She has gone through life, accepting everybody's help, and adopting everybody's opinions. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I never was farther from accepting anything in my life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I offered them to please myself: I felt she did me a favour in accepting them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It stands to reason that by accepting his presents you give him to understand he will one day receive an equivalent, in your regard. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He seemed making promises, which he soothed her into accepting in lieu of information. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Such were his thoughts when he returned to the coffee-room, and intimated his intention of accepting the doctor's challenge. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She knew that, in accepting the rings, she was accepting a pledge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If I had felt justified in accepting the offers of service which he made to me on my return, he would have appeared again long ere this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Miltiades, the Athenian, was for accepting this proposal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For being hard up--and accepting attentions from men like Gus Trenor--and George Dorset---- Mrs. Peniston gave another cry. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But this is not a reason for nominally accepting one educational philosophy and accommodating ourselves in practice to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And the attitudes which spring from getting used to and accepting half-understood and ill-digested material weaken vigor and efficiency of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She had replied, gratefully accepting his proposal. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• For my part, I think Ladislaw is rather a fool for accepting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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