I dare say ye may have dealt wi' him--(the Deacon gave a sort ofacquiescent nod and humph).
The Dominie answered with something between anacquiescent grunt and an indignant groan.
All of which profound moral and religious observations Ernest, as in duty bound, received with the most respectful and acquiescent silence.
Exactly so,' Ronald answered, in the same tone of gentle and acquiescent persuasion.
Aunt Rachel and Aunt Barbara were both placid, both pious, both full of unsophisticated good works, both serenely acquiescent in their lots.
So they stood for a little while, her mouth and body acquiescent to his embrace.
They never so much as entered Fidentia, but marched round it, acquiescent to the gentle suggestion of a trembling and incoherent alderman, quaking with fear and barely able to enunciate some disjointed sentences.
He did not mention Vedia and I was still too dazed, too numb, too weak, too acquiescent to ask after her, or even to think of asking after her or to notice that he had not mentioned her.
This sum she deposited on the table, and then took leave, walking off with a quick, enterprising step, followed by her acquiescent and admiring bridegroom.
Skinner, the acquiescent one, putting his foot down like that!
She had the laborer's tired muscles and acquiescent nerves.
She was in a faded brocade unearthed from some dark corner Lydia Vesey knew the secret of, and she was age itself, beautiful, delicate, acquiescent age, all sadness and a wistful grace.
That air of his had pleased her once: it gave her a curious little thrill of acquiescent loyalty; but now it simply hurt, and the instinct of resentment rose in her.
As a statesman he was thoroughly a man of God, full of a patriot's adoring and acquiescent thankfulness, as he watched and studied the wonderful unfolding of God's just and kindly government of this most favored land.
And in that understanding he held on earth unyieldingly to the perfect image of that heavenly norm, in a pure and acquiescent loyalty and love.
There is no evidence to show that she otherwise expressed herself than as in the acquiescent suggestion to Russell.
Walpole makes Palmerston responsible for the original plan and Russell acquiescent and readily agreeing to postpone.
Lindsay's next step was to be the securing of an interview with Russell and if he was found to be equally acquiescent all would be plain sailing: "Now, if by strong reasoning in a quiet way, and by stern facts we can get Lord R.
But even those Liberal members who had voted on his side were for the most part quietly acquiescent in the injustice done, regarding a wrong to one "unpopular" man as a small matter.
The accommodating, acquiescent dame, with scarcely strength to speak, was defeating all three of them on that one point.
She sat there, head bent, silent, impassive, acquiescent under the physical and mental strain to which she had never become thoroughly hardened.
One thing was certain: there was not now time enough before the house-party dissolved to mould Plank into acquiescent obedience.
He was on his feet at once, so carelessly, so good-humouredly acquiescent that without any reason at all she hesitated.
In this election the opponents of his father's policy were acquiescent rather than content.
Settlers, gloomily acquiescentin an unjust fate, brightened at his heralding.
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
The Jew relapsed into an acquiescent silence, from which Matheson presently dug him to inquire if he knew a farm named Benauwdheidfontein.
Something in that protective gesture, in the tones of the proud determined young voice, and in the older woman's acquiescent silence, acted like a silencing hand laid on Matheson's lips.
It's all very well for a gentle acquiescent spirit to be carried through life by one bearer.
Dean, the coachman, gave acquiescent answers to his questions on the homeward drive.
But after a while Other-Sheila became lessacquiescent and more assertive.
But they were usually found so passive and acquiescent that the bœotarchs, reckoning upon their assent as a matter of course, even without any full exposition of reasons, laid all their plans accordingly.
A murmur from Corte jarred within her like a furious discord, but he had not offended by refusing to disclaim his error, and had simply said in a gruff acquiescent way, "Proceed.
The first injunction was received in a decidedly acquiescent manner.
Buonarroti, had no doubt something to do with the acquiescent courtesy of the latter.
Public energy, exhausted by the civil wars and debilitated by the arts of the tyrants, sank deep and deeper into the lassitude of acquiescent lethargy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquiescent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
