1 She was surprised to hear Tom dissent.
2 The old man looked at her for an instant with an expression of the deepest tenderness, then, turning towards the notary, he significantly winked his eye in token of dissent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 59. The Will. 3 She said nothing, and shook her cropped head in dissent.
4 Anna noticed this sigh, indicating dissent, and she went on.
5 Sir Thomas could not dissent, as it had been his own arrangement, previously communicated to his wife and sister; but that seemed forgotten by Mrs. Norris, who must fancy that she settled it all herself.
6 Mrs Musgrove had not a word to say in dissent; she could not accuse herself of having ever called them anything in the whole course of her life.
7 I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent.
8 It is my mother who dissents; she has a clear and penetrating judgment, and does not smile on the proposed union.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks. 9 As she thought this, the clamor of dissenting voices rose up about Ashley, indignant, fiery.
10 At all events Robert proposed it, and there was not a dissenting voice.
11 She waved a dissenting hand, and went on, paying no further heed to their renewed cries which sought to detain her.
12 With the advantage of possessing this important intelligence, the chief warily laid his plans before his fellows, and, as might have been anticipated from his eloquence and cunning, they were adopted without a dissenting voice.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 13 He gave no orders, but only assented to or dissented from what others suggested.