1 Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty of friendship by giving me one of her best hugs.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON 2 My aunt said this in a sprightly way, and gave me a kiss to ratify the blessing.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING 3 "They've flatly refused to ratify the amendment," said Grandpa Merriwether and there was pride in his voice.
4 As Ashley had prophesied, there had been hell to pay since the legislature refused to ratify the amendment.
5 If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick.
6 It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote.
7 Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits.
8 There had been a Thirteenth Amendment ratified sometime before or maybe it had been the Sixteenth Amendment but what ratification meant she had no idea.