Acknowledging

Examples

• As we neared home, Joe vaguely acknowledging the occasion as an impressive and ceremonious one, went on ahead to open the front door. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But acknowledging his guest to be such a good fellow as has seldom graced his board, the holy man at length produces the best his cell affords. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And yet you were acknowledging a little while ago that knowledge is not the same as opinion? Plato. The Republic.
• Edward seemed a second Willoughby; and acknowledging as Elinor did, that she HAD loved him most sincerely, could she feel less than herself! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She returned it almost instantly, acknowledging the likeness. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But while acknowledging their value in education, he sees also that they have no connexion with our higher moral and intellectual ideas. Plato. The Republic.
• If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She shrank from following out the premises to their conclusion, and so acknowledging to herself how much she valued his respect and good opinion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I had received a formal answer acknowledging its receipt and saying, We note the contents thereof, which shall be duly communicated to our client. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Can you, my lord, forgive my long silence, and my not acknowledging till now the favour you did me in sending me your excellent book? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You shook your head at my acknowledging that I should not like to engage in the duties of a clergyman always for a constancy. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I don't mind acknowledging to you that I've got rather a grudging disposition, and want to keep off all intruders. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Edited by Abraham