1 Especially vague were her recollections of the time between her acceptance of Charles and her wedding.
2 This wrongness went even deeper than Bonnie's death, for now the first unbearable anguish was fading into resigned acceptance of her loss.
3 Lily's own view of her wavered between pity for her limitations and impatience at her cheerful acceptance of them.
4 When Mr. Rosedale took leave, he carried with him, not only her acceptance of his invitation, but a general sense of having comported himself in a way calculated to advance his cause.
5 She uttered a smiling acceptance, hailing in the renewal of the tie an escape from Trenor's importunities.
6 Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme and Fouillou.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE 7 The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have said.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 8 His natural timidity rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain degree.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 9 The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 10 In this avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there was acceptance of peril.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 11 Demi paused to consider the new relationship before he compromised himself by the rash acceptance of a bribe, which took the tempting form of a family of wooden bears from Berne.
12 My reasons for believing it are briefly these: It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
13 No scheme could have been more agreeable to Elizabeth, and her acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful.
14 Mrs. Gardiner looked at her niece, desirous of knowing how she, whom the invitation most concerned, felt disposed as to its acceptance, but Elizabeth had turned away her head.
15 So saying, he lifted the coronet, and placed it upon Rowena's head, in token of her acceptance of the temporary authority assigned to her.