"I cannot truthfully describe my mental attitude as acquiescence and far less cheerful acquiescence," grumbled Summerlee over his pipe.
Summerlee nodded his reluctant acquiescence and held out his thin hand to Challenger.
Ends was choking, and it was not until the grip on his throat was eased that he was able to signify his
acquiescence in the digging-up programme.
The secretary drooped his head with an expression of perfect
acquiescence in anything that had been said or might be; and Lord George gradually sinking down upon his pillow, fell asleep.
'That the members of the aforesaid Corresponding Society be, and are hereby informed, that their proposal to pay the postage of their letters, and the carriage of their parcels, has been deliberated upon by this Association: that this Association considers such proposal worthy of the great minds from which it emanated, and that it hereby signifies its perfect
acquiescence therein.'
May I hope for your
acquiescence, and for your not influencing your son against such a tenant?"
He seemed to greet the lapse of minute after minute with stern acquiescence in the inevitable order.
He had spoken of gratitude and acquiescence in the letter which he had never sent, and now all the force of his character must make good those vows in her presence.
Woodhouse was to be talked into an
acquiescence of his daughter's going out to dinner on a day now near at hand, and spending the whole evening away from him.
He rode on in silence, except, that now and then he would give way to a burst of indignation, and exclaim, with a shake of the head and a toss of the hand toward the opposite shore--"bad men, very bad men across the river"; to each of which brief exclamations, his worthy cousin, Hay-she-in-cow-cow, would respond by a guttural sound of
acquiescence, equivalent to an amen.
Both the old men smiled
acquiescence. Adam went on: "I meant you to see it--both of you.
At times, the fire advanced with human
acquiescence; at others, concerted human effort was impotent in the face of nature's awesome force.