Louis looked up acquiescently, and slipped his hand into Hamilton's. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
"Heap better," said Flor acquiescently, and beginning to hold a whistling colloquy with the hidden voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of Government without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Mirah smiled acquiescently, but had nothing to say. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Mrs. Lathrop nodded acquiescently but made no comment. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop] Reference
Take not acquiescently, but joyfully, the spoiling of your goods. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
She moved to the door acquiescently and switched out the light, he following. From Wordnik.com. [Married Life The True Romance] Reference
She nodded acquiescently, her expression once more abstracted, her thoughts far afield. From Wordnik.com. [A Chilhowee Lily 1911] Reference
She sighed a resigned sigh of utter submission, nodded acquiescently, and waited beside him. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Will] Reference
Calvin pointed to a ladder that led from the corner of his study to the roof, and Duff Salter nodded his head acquiescently. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian Days Three American Tales] Reference
"Well, Hannah, my dear, I think so too, and I have thought so for the last week, only I did not like to hurry you," said Reuben acquiescently. From Wordnik.com. [Ishmael In the Depths] Reference
The city man acquiescently nodded his head but he was thinking chiefly of the calm patience and the tireless strenuousity with which McGivins, himself, was battling against calamity. From Wordnik.com. [A Pagan of the Hills] Reference
Letterblair looked at him from under enquiring eyebrows, and the young man, aware of the uselessness of trying to explain what was in his mind, bowed acquiescently while his senior continued: Divorce is always unpleasant. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Book I] Reference
On the contrary, we have been rather inclined to think them neglectful of all education, and have, above all, listened acquiescently while men deprecated the lack of interest in things scientific displayed by these generations. From Wordnik.com. [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference
Mr. Letterblair looked at him from under enquiring eyebrows, and the young man, aware of the uselessness of trying to explain what was in his mind, bowed acquiescently while his senior continued: "Divorce is always unpleasant.". From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Innocence] Reference
Letterblair looked at him from under enquiring eyebrows, and the young man, aware of the uselessness of trying to explain what was in his mind, bowed acquiescently while his senior continued: ` ` Divorce is always unpleasant. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Innocence] Reference
After he had presented this very satisfactory solution, both laughed; but while he laughed with relief at dismissing the question, she laughed only acquiescently and unconvinced, the laugh which should be called the Laugh of the Wise Wives. From Wordnik.com. [Married Life The True Romance] Reference
Rodriguez smiled acquiescently and mine host withdrew, and presently leaving Morano whom his master's voice had waked, to curl up on the floor in a corner, Rodriguez took the candle that lit the room and passed once more through the passages of the inn and down the great corridor of the fastness of the family that had fallen on evil days, and so came to his chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley] Reference
"I was at a loss how to meet it -- whether to be indignant and order him out, or to be acquiescently non-committal. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
Feeling judged for treating England’s Gordon Brown in a discourteous manner, Obama symbolically flips the proverbial bird and bows acquiescently to a Saudi King. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Speaking in childish, intensely emotional tones, the female speaker in Ravikovitch’s poems laments the loss of her tender childhood dreams as she acquiescently succumbs to the harshness of adult existence. From Wordnik.com. [Dalia Ravikovitch.] Reference
The minister nodded acquiescently. From Wordnik.com. [Polly and the Princess] Reference
Billy grinned acquiescently and departed. From Wordnik.com. [The Bat] Reference
He nodded acquiescently. From Wordnik.com. [T. Tembarom] Reference
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