1 But she knew she looked pretty even before she saw confirmation in his eyes.
2 Wade, beaming, pocketed the bill and looked anxiously toward his mother for confirmation.
3 Her way of glossing over the transaction with Trenor he regarded at once as a tribute to his own acuteness, and a confirmation of his suspicions.
4 She read, too, in his answering gaze the delicious confirmation of her triumph, and for the moment it seemed to her that it was for him only she cared to be beautiful.
5 He kept coming back to her for confirmation.
6 But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning.
7 Duncan turned quickly in the direction indicated by the other's eyes, and read a confirmation of his worst apprehensions in the conduct of the Indians.
8 They had answered his melancholy and mourning by sympathy and sorrow; his assertions, by gestures of confirmation; and his boasting, with the exultation of savages.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 9 I had hitherto supposed him to be the murderer of my brother, and I eagerly sought a confirmation or denial of this opinion.
10 One of the men nodded in confirmation.
11 I was about indignantly to give my assertion the confirmation he required, when he caught hold of my hand, and gave it a squeeze.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 12 My aunt nodded confirmation of this hope, and imparted great satisfaction to Mr. Peggotty.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 13 Letters may, of course, be a partial confirmation; but detection in the fact there must be of the most direct kind, that is, by eyewitnesses.
14 And going over the events of the last few days, it seemed to her that she saw in everything a confirmation of this terrible idea.
15 And imagining that in this direction something important which he had long awaited was drawing near, he strolled about watching and listening to conversations, but nowhere finding any confirmation of the ideas that occupied him.