... Columbine was the essence of pert indifference under his cajolery, saucily mocking under his threats, and finely sly in extorting the very maximum when it came to accepting a bribe...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Besides, all women who wage war successfully by indirect means, are invariably neither very skillful nor very strong when it becomes a question of accepting a pitched battle...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
... instead of accepting King's offer to go up the Khyber with him? ...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...He replied accepting theinvitation, and told me to expect him about dinner-time on December 2,which turned out to be the day after the exodus...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...Jacot, I do not feel justified in accepting thisstatement without its having personal confirmation from Mme...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...The Arab women are generally idle, and one of the conditions of accepting a suitor is that a female slave is to be provided for the special use of the wife...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...Upon Tuesday I wrote a letter to the King formy dispatch; and the same afternoone I wascalled againe to the Court, and referred allthings to the King, accepting his offer of salt-peter...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...“Then Polly was guilty of an impertinence you should have resented instead of accepting...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...Moreover, in accepting donations, it is sometimes convenient tobe able to refer to a fixed plan...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Probably I have become unusually cautiousof late about accepting offhand all I read inprint on subjects of natural history...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
..."And I'll arrange right away for the mare, first thing in themorning," Charley said, accepting the modified plan withouthesitation...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...The slow,the never-ending approach to truth consists in perpetually formingand testing hypotheses, accepting those which at the time seem tofit the facts and rejecting the others...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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