Agrees

Examples

• It agrees nearly with the estimation of the Northumberland book in 1512. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He finds that nothing agrees with him so well as to make little gyrations on one leg of his stool, and stab his desk, and gape. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Alfred, Mr Twemlow thinks the last one the best, and quite agrees with you and me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mother helped me--she agrees that we ought to. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• To say the idea of extension agrees to any thing, is to say it is extended. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Now it is obvious, that every thing useful, beautiful or surprising, agrees in producing a separate pleasure and agrees in nothing else. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• All this agrees well with what we see under nature. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I do not know but that the place agrees with her tolerably. Jane Austen. Emma.
• This agrees with the popular notion, formed independently of science, which calls the reds the warm colors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The jolly Hermit at length agrees to venture thither, and to enquire for Jack Fletcher, which is the name assumed by the King. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It always agrees with me to be doing my duty; and in this case my duty is a thorough pleasure. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This agrees with the law of vibrating strings which gives high pitches for short lengths. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He entirely agrees with my Lady. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Regard me in the light of a husband or a carpet, and beat till you are tired, if that sort of exercise agrees with you. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And, now I think of it, it agrees with what I saw last night. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My opinion agrees with yours, he said. Plato. The Republic.
• What is known concerning it, agrees with itself; and what is unknown, we must be contented to leave so. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Thus one hypothesis of morality is an undeniable proof of the foregoing system, and the other at worst agrees with it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But every leaf awakens my grief, As it lieth beneath the tree; So let Autumn air be never so fair, It by no means agrees with me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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