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Example sentences for "accepted the"

  • They ventured to hint that ancient France would remain to him, even if he accepted the proposals of the Allies, and that Louis XIV.

  • Without any long demur, he accepted the invitation, from a mixture of fear and hope.

  • Having declared that he accepted the office of Pontifex Maximus for the purpose of preserving his hands undefiled, he faithfully adhered to his promise.

  • A fine of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds sterling was levied on the fortunes of Belisarius; and with the office of count, or master of the royal stables, he accepted the conduct of the Italian war.

  • Of the Saxons, the old allies of the Lombards, twenty thousand warriors, with their wives and children, accepted the invitation of Alboin.

  • The victorious eunuch pursued his march through Tuscany, accepted the submission of the Goths, heard the acclamations, and often the complaints, of the Italians, and encompassed the walls of Rome with the remainder of his formidable host.

  • Joseph Mouradour was invited, and he accepted the invitation.

  • He felt the insult, and he accepted the advice.

  • He accepted the conditions of his age with genial and careless sympathy, making himself at once its idol, its interpreter, and its buffoon.

  • It was at this epoch that Bernardo entered the service of Guidubaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, with whom he remained until 1563, when he accepted the post of secretary from Guglielmo, Duke of Mantua.

  • But the climax of this policy was reached when Lorraine accepted the Pope's invitation, and undertook a journey to Rome.

  • The royal captive showed some signs of repentance, accepted the humiliation of a robe of honor, and embraced with tears his son Mousa, who, at his request, was sought and found among the captives of the field.

  • He accepted the abandonment of Spain to the archduke, and merely claimed to reserve to his grandson Naples, Sardinia, and Sicily.

  • I accepted the condemnation of my book in the most absolute simplicity.

  • But Ty, Prince of Yen, the most powerful and ambitious of them all, declared that he accepted the emperor's invitation.

  • I accepted the invitation, and I went ten or twelve days afterwards.

  • I accepted the invitation, and Pasean offering me a constant round of pleasures, it was easy enough for me to enjoy myself, and to forget for the time the rigours of the cruel Angela.

  • I accepted the invitation, and, after the reading of ten stanzas which I had written for the occasion, I was unanimously elected a member.

  • Unable to devise any better plan, I accepted the offer, and a sailor, carrying my trunk, accompanied me to the dwelling of the honest captain.

  • As I was to attend the dedication, on that day, of the Ohio building in the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition, I accepted the invitation of Mr. Spaulding.

  • I accepted the invitation, and with a very agreeable party of ladies and gentlemen, among whom were Mr. W.

  • He accepted the devotion of Clary's Grove without the slightest attempt to make over its bravoes in his own image.

  • Greeley, who did not want to have any responsibility for anything that might ensue, whose joy was to storm and to find fault, accepted the duty he could not well refuse, and set out in a bad humor.

  • Doubtless a main reason why he accepted the plan of campaign suggested by Halleck was the opportunity which it offered to Pope.

  • The officers bowed, expressed their acknowledgments, accepted the invitation, bowed once or twice more each, and left the cabin, with the exception of the midshipman.

  • Senator Sumner, who had left the Presidential contest and gone to Europe returned to his Senatorial duties and "accepted the situation.

  • Reckless friends of Mr. Tilden, who had hoped to plunge the country into the turmoil and uncertainty of another election, found that their chief had tamely accepted the situation, and they quietly submitted.

  • In a brief speech he accepted the position as a tribute to the independent ground which he claimed to have long occupied in the politics of the country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accepted from; accepted the; before related; blackish brown; bright spot; commanding officer; fight the; haired lady; have given; honorary degree; lifted his; little niggers; moved tones; natural selection; nature must; pathological conditions; quite another; she now; thet thar; viewed from; will draw all men; would not have been; year ago