1 This is an unhappy fatality, and one must accept it as such.
2 Three old professors in the council had not accepted the opinion of the younger professors.
3 Afterwards, on a day fixed beforehand, the expected offer was made to her parents, and accepted.
4 "Well, I have had some today already," said the old man, obviously accepting the invitation with pleasure.
5 And he had now come to Moscow with a firm determination to make an offer, and get married if he were accepted.
6 But, to his surprise, Anna accepted the information with great composure, and merely asked when he would be back.
7 The English fashion of the complete independence of girls was also not accepted, and not possible in Russian society.
8 I accept the calamity as an accomplished fact, and am doing my best to help both her and you, said Stepan Arkadyevitch.
9 "And we should all go to see them if it were accepted as the correct thing, like the opera," chimed in Princess Myakaya.
10 He had never met Anna before, and was struck by her beauty, and still more by the frankness with which she accepted her position.
11 Darya Alexandrovna Oblonskaya had invited him, when he was over there, to come; to come with the object of renewing his offer to her sister, who would, so she gave him to understand, accept him now.
12 They assumed an air of fully comprehending the import and force of the situation, of accepting and even approving of it, but of considering it superfluous and uncalled for to put all this into words.
13 And just as the hungry stomach eagerly accepts every object it can get, hoping to find nourishment in it, Vronsky quite unconsciously clutched first at politics, then at new books, and then at pictures.
14 Stepan Arkadyevitch knew that when Karenin began to talk of what they were doing and thinking, the persons who would not accept his report and were the cause of everything wrong in Russia, that it was coming near the end.
15 He knew Metrov had written an article against the generally accepted theory of political economy, but to what extent he could reckon on his sympathy with his own new views he did not know and could not guess from the clever and serene face of the learned man.
16 What delighted him was the thought how much easier it was to believe in a still existing living church, embracing all the beliefs of men, and having God at its head, and therefore holy and infallible, and from it to accept the faith in God, in the creation, the fall, the redemption, than to begin with God, a mysterious, far-away God, the creation, etc.
17 They agreed that the modern plough ploughed better, that the scarifier did the work more quickly, but they found thousands of reasons that made it out of the question for them to use either of them; and though he had accepted the conviction that he would have to lower the standard of cultivation, he felt sorry to give up improved methods, the advantages of which were so obvious.
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