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I was just saying to Morgan, here, that if Judge Bateman would consent to run,—or rather, he was saying it and I was assenting, when you came in.

From A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day by Winslow, Helen M. (Helen Maria)

The doctor was assenting perfunctorily to his friend's animated harangue.

From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell

Fanny felt that she was assenting, even in that she did not answer such a question by an immediate refusal of her permission; and yet she did not mean to assent.

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony

Apparently she was urging him to some course of action, and the doctor, with his hands under his coattails, was assenting with a poor grace.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

Tai-yü was assenting to every bit of advice as it was uttered, when unexpectedly she beheld a waiting-maid walk in.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft