Her face turned pale for a moment and her lips trembled, but she spoke an affirmatory word only, and waited.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

He added an affirmatory nod, and continued to gaze upon me with a kind of irate solemnity, holding his substantial stick between his knees, with his hands clasped upon its head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference

Virtually nothing in fact, save the warm, self-affirmatory glow you get when someone tells you you're right, that some day your beliefs will be vindicated, that however long it takes, reality will win out.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Why couldn't President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests?"] Reference

Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170).    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul] Reference

The foreigner made a vivid, surprised, affirmatory gesture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference

That it was so was evident from the numerous affirmatory responses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories] Reference

She hesitated for a second; then, with an affirmatory murmur, accepted the proffered arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tidal Wave and Other Stories] Reference

Some just evoke a mood of quiet, affirmatory contemplation - a feeling that all is right in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I think their divine right, tried, with affirmatory verdict, in the greatest Law-Court known to me, was good!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

People of a Territory want Slavery, they will encourage it by passing affirmatory laws, and the necessary police regulations, patrol laws and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1] Reference

It is certain, Christophine consulted her Parish Clergyman on the affair; and got from him, as Saupe shows us, an affirmatory or at least permissive response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference

But the EDM is gravy; the real challenge will be the two parliamentary votes ( "affirmatory resolutions"), one in the Commons, one in the Lords, which are scheduled for Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yorkshire Ranter] Reference

Where The Wild Things Are - its listlessness and torpor, its swathes of noodling dialogue about the solar system dying - is a betrayal of its source material's affirmatory spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

As soon, however, as the wine had gone the round of the table, Lawless exclaimed: "Gentlemen! are you all charged?" and receiving affirmatory looks from the company in general, he continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil] Reference

Hence if the people of a Territory want slavery they will encourage it by passing affirmatory laws, and the necessary police regulations; if they do not want it, they will withhold that legislation, and by withholding it slavery is as dead as if it were prohibited by a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective] Reference

Hence, if the people of a Territory want slavery, they will encourage it by passing affirmatory laws, and the necessary police regulations, patrol laws and slave code; if they do not want it they will withhold that legislation, and by withholding it slavery is as dead as if it was prohibited by a constitutional prohibition, especially if, in addition, their legislation is unfriendly, as it would be if they were opposed to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech of Senator Douglas] Reference

The response was an affirmatory grunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle] Reference

Another affirmatory nod was the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

"Hence, if the people of a Territory want slavery, they will encourage it by passing affirmatory laws, and the necessary police regulations, patrol laws, and slave code; if they do not want it they will withhold that legislation, and by withholding it slavery is as dead as if it was prohibited by a constitutional prohibition, especially if, in addition, their legislation is unfriendly, as it would be if they were opposed to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics] Reference