Assented

Examples

• Oh, count on him, his wife assented gaily. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• So it might, little woman, my guardian assented. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Quite mad, I assented; as mad as a March hare. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I say be happy, too,' assented the still pensive Mr Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Louis Moore assented with a low Hear, hear! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To be sure,' assented Mrs. Sparsit, eating muffin. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Yes, regarding my respected father,' assented Eugene, settling himself in his arm-chair. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I modestly assented, and we all fell through a little dirty swing door, into a sort of hot packing-case immediately behind it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My dear,' assented her eminently practical parent, 'quite true, quite true. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I promised him assistance provided he would admit me into a share of the invention, to which proposition he assented. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr Inspector declined eating, but assented to the proposal of a glass of brandy and water. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Prior Aymer also assented to the general proposition, observing, however, That the blessed Jerusalem could not indeed be termed a foreign country. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mr. Pickwick, who had been deeply investigating the interior of the pigeon-pie, readily assented. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Yes--yes; I know, he assented, with a rising tinge of embarrassment. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He shook his head, and assented to all she proposed, though many of her propositions absolutely contradicted one another. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• There you're right,' assented Fledgeby. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She therefore graciously smiled, assented, chatted familiarly, and did all she could to make time pass imperceptibly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Thus he spoke, and the other Greeks revered the priest and assented. Plato. The Republic.
• HUH, assented Terkoz. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Without any other alteration, beside that of the feeling, they become immediately ideas of the memory, and are assented to. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I assented, in spite of everything Fanny and Julia could say to prevent me; for Fred Bentinck always made me merry. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Yes, she assented absently. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The remark being made to me in consequence of my being next him as we walked, I assented and enumerated its chief attractions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• True, to the present time,' Mr Boffin assented, with his former pensiveness, as he took his seat upon his settle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It showed a want of poetry in the man, Mr. Skimpole assented, but with perfect good humour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Undoubtedly,' assented Mr Podsnap; 'But So it is. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr Blandois proposed having the largest glasses in the house, to which Mr Flintwinch assented. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There's something in that,' assented Venus. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is so, assented Defarge again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Typist: Robinson