"Acquiescent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rising to her graceful height. He was on his feet at once, so carelessly, so good-humouredly acquiescent that without any reason at ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... am ready to faint. This seems so strange when I can go on talking to any extent—but then it is talking without emotion and in a desultory way. Ah well! God knows best in what manner to let me live, and I desire to ask for nothing but a docile, acquiescent temper, whose only petition shall be, "What wilt Thou have me to do?" not how can I get most enjoyment along the way. I can not believe if I am His child, that He will let anything hinder my progress ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... the engineer had a red spark in it that might have jumped out of his own engine-furnace as he turned upon the acquiescent Billy. "Didn't you catch wot I said to you just now, my lad?" he ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... The effect of all factitious systems is to render the feelings subservient to expediency. Convention and fiction take place of passion and truth, and like the Mussulman with his doctrine of predestination, there is no one more acquiescent in defeat, than he who has obtained an advantage in the face of nature and justice; his resignation being, in common, as perfect as his previous arrogance was insupportable. The two old senators perceived at once that Don Camillo and his fair companion were completely beyond the reach of ...
— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper
... no objection to this invasion; Mrs. Betty, after much private rumination and great persuasion, consented to the arrangement. Young madam was obliged to be ruefully acquiescent, though secretly irate at so preposterous a scheme; the Vicar, good man, to do him justice, was always ponderously anxious to abet his mother, and had, besides, a sneaking kindness for Mistress Betty; the girls were privately charmed, ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler
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