My friend, for a while, endeavoured to obtain some further forbearance towards the tardy bridegroom; but, finding me peremptory, she consented to go.
At last, in a mere weariness of confinement, I one day consented to accompany her abroad.
Our grateful hostess willingly consented to this arrangement; and, with a hundred apologies for the poorness of my accommodations, conducted us to our chamber.
Her Ladyship at first frankly consented to my request; but suddenly recollecting herself, declared that she had not a guinea about her; and, without waiting for my concurrence, called upon Lord Frederick to relieve my difficulty.
Miss Arnold still lingered, however, and again made a fruitless appeal to the compassion of Mrs Milne; but finding her inexorable, she consented to depart.
I had therefore consented to remain with Dr ---- till an answer should arrive from the sister to whom he had written on my behalf.
When we first consented to the engagement I thought them to be excellently suited to each other, and so far I have not seen anything to modify that opinion.
This evening, Miss Crawford, who hadconsented to perform solely on account of the charitable object of the concert, was out of humour with herself and all the world.
It was Colonel Fitzwilliam who presently begged Miss Crawford to take his seat, which, after a slight demur, no other chair being within sight, she consented to do.
He accepted the comedy, but laid it aside for several months, and only grudgingly, at last, consented to put it in rehearsal.
I was so carried away by his pleading that I consented to leave my uncle's house by his side.
Christian, who was still smarting from the interference of Madame de Plessen, consented with an ill grace, and only on condition that Reverdil composed the letters and he merely copied them.
The young King had consented to marry with an ill grace, and after his marriage he lost no time in declaring to his boon companions that he intended to be in every respect a husband à la mode.
He was not mistaken in his previsions, for Semele, proud of having attracted the greatest among the gods, no longer offered any resistance, and consented to their union.
Hell consented To hear the Poet's prayer: Stern Proserpine relented, And gave him back the fair.
Orpheus made known his errand in operatic guise, and succeeded in moving the royal pair to tears, whereupon they graciously consented to restore Eurydice to life and to her fond husband's care.
Now, although the fading light would not permit her to discern the form or features of her unknown lover, Psyche listened to his soft tones with unconcealed pleasure, and soon consented to their union.
The messenger, carefully instructed beforehand, carried out the directions with such skill, that Amphitrite formally consented to become Neptune's wife.
During his absence, Paris, urged by Venus, courted Helen so successfully, that she finally consented to elope with him, and allowed herself to be borne away in triumph to Troy.
This being the state of her feelings, she readily consented to their union, and became the proud mother of Orpheus, who inherited his parents' musical and poetical gifts.
If her brother consented to take her, David would send a post-office order for the first month at once.
He dropped asleep again, and, coming back to the hearth, she consented to lie down before it while her friend watched.
With the Lancashire accent he had also the Lancashire persistence, and David after a while gave in, consented that he should stay for some weeks, at any rate, and then set to work to teach him, in a very impatient and intermittent way.
He consented to do so while waiting for some other parties, and to come in if he heard my voice or thought I had need of protection.
Most assuredly, sir, or I would never have consented to its appearance.
If he had accepted her submission, had consented to the real marriage, there should have been white roses by the hundred, and the softest lace and silk to set off her beauty.
Instead of which she hadconsented to a mock marriage in a registry-office--and this.
Your kind father, overrating the paltry service I rendered you, would have consented to submit my fate to your decision.
Kakaik consented to stop with us for the night, and we had several more tunes from Mike's fiddle, and another dance, almost as boisterous as the first.
This the States consented to do, and the treaty was duly signed on both sides.
Mr. Billings seated himself on a post near the gate, and there consented to remain until the return of his messenger.
I offered to pay her well for her trouble, and, after some demur, she consented to accompany me to the spot.
It consisted in laying the accused on his back on a bare floor and placing a great iron weight on his chest until he consented to plead or died.
Max, having nothing else to do just then, readily consented to be her escort, and they set out at once.
When, weary and sad, he consented to re-write parts of this Pericles, it was that he might embody the feeling by which he is now possessed.
He consented to the murder out of noble, disinterested and patriotic motives; nevertheless he is struck down by its consequences, and pays for it with his happiness and his life.
Had my party not been under control, we could not have put up here; but on my being answerable that no thefts should take place, the people kindly consented to provide us with board and lodgings, and we found them very obliging.
I found a messenger who consented to tell the king of my desire to see him.
Mrs. Fosdick related the death of her husband, and upon being informed of Foster's condition, consented that her husband's body be converted into food.
Then, hearing that Mr. Brunner's family and Georgia desired her return, she became so homesick that her sister consented to her going to them.
Stanton had become perfectly satisfied that the mules could not reach the mountain-top, and readily consented to the proposed plan.
Her grief at her husband's disappearance was so heart-rending that three young men at last consented to start back in the morning and endeavor to find Wolfinger.
Disposing themselves comfortably, they sat watching the lights of the town and the jungle--the first pouring from windows and open doors, the latter streaking across the darkness where the big fire beetles of the tropics winged their way.
Muttering something which may have been a Mayoruna malediction, the savage moved aside a step or two, drew another arrow, and set it to the cord with more care than before.
But he wasn't comfortable about it; and after a hard fight with himself he consented to let Mrs. Quinn ask their policeman what they should do.
When she had told her plan, Peter Benari shook his head, and thought it would never do; but Tessa begged so hard, he consented at last that she should try it for one week, and sent her to bed the happiest little girl in New York.
Several of the companies then in his regiment consented to go.
Much against his will and wishes, but by mother's entreaties and friends' solicitations, the young man consented to accompany his mother home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consented" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
