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These plans were not approved, but it was suggested that an attempt should be made to land on the western side of the town and there bring the enemy to action, and Wolfe writes: "I have acquiesced in their Proposal, and we are preparing to put it into execution."
He acquiesced, mentioning the lateness of the hour, and adding, "You are alone?" She stared, and let fall "Certainly," and then laughed. "I had forgotten your regard for the proprieties. I have just sent my maid for Georgiana; she will sleep here.
Lincoln, you are wrong" the woman remembered the children to whom a lesson ought to be given "a dish of bread and milk is fit for the President of these United States." Both the guests acquiesced. The cream of a story is in the application.
I'm crazy to try yours, if I may." "'In for a penny, in for a pound, I suppose, you young witch!" acquiesced Mrs. Fleming, letting her enthusiastic guest have her way. So on the evening of the concert Diana shut herself up in her hostess's bedroom with a pair of crimping-irons and some curling-tongs. She covered up the result with a light gauze veil.
That is a fatal concession to immorality, and we must hold that in some one or more of the combatant nations the Churches have, for some reason or other, acquiesced in a crime. The plea is valid only to this extent, that the guilty nations in this case were notoriously Germany and Austria-Hungary, and therefore one cannot pass any censure on British Christians for supporting the war.
He fought, and he had a theory that if the slave had always fought there would soon have been an end of whipping, and so an end of slavery. But probably it will be a good while before criminals are " "Educated up to the idea," Minver proposed. "Yes," Wanhope absently acquiesced.
The earl acquiesced in her opinion; and saying he would consult with Wallace about the securest mode of travel for his daughter, again turned to Lord Andrew, to learn further of their late proceedings. But the countess, still uneasy, once more interrupted him. "Alas! my lord, what would you do? His generous zeal will offer to go in person for your daughter.
The Lords of Trade partly acquiesced in Lawrence's reasoning, yet they warned him to be cautious. After nine months' tenure of office Lawrence had fully made up his mind as to his policy in dealing with the Acadians.
My own boys did not stay in the old school long after I left, but came and asked me to keep a class on Sunday in our dining-room an arrangement in which I gladly acquiesced, though it involved my eventually abandoning the ragged school, which was at least two miles distant. With the night work at the lodging-houses, we used to combine a very aggressive total abstinence campaign.
"He has been very faithful and obliging all the time he has been with us." "Just so." "I have been thinking what would be a good thing to give him." "A pair of spectacles," suggested Sophia, rather absent-mindedly. "Sophia, you are a goose." "Just so," acquiesced her sister, meekly. "Such a gift would be very inappropriate." "Just so." "A pair of boots," was the next suggestion.
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