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Sentences starting with accept

Accept my best wishes for your individual welfare, and for the welfare and happiness of the whole British people. [7]
Accept my humble gift. [11]

Sentences ending with accept

Well, I understand you to accept? [8]
And Jack did persuade Mrs. Blunt to accept. [4]
The little king of that region offered us his hospitalities, and we were glad to accept. [5]
Alas, the concern of society is now for those upon whom the Church has lost her hold, who are seeking for a solution they can accept. [9]
Jenny's imagination was no less vivid, but she used it merely to behold in the form most congenial to her nature and sense of beauty what faith commanded her to accept. [10]
And, greatly to my annoyance,--in the circumstances,--I was made a hero of, and showered with three times as many invitations as I could accept. [9]
In that case I should have to advise you to accept. [9]
The governors of eighteen States offer me a new levy of 300,000, which I accept. [7]
His letter had arrived some hours after Jasmine's, and then her answer was immediate--she would accept. [11]
Friendship is aristocratical--the affections which are prostituted to every suitor I will not accept. [6]

Short sentences using accept

Do you accept the challenge? [7]
I accept the terms. [11]
I accept your offer. [10]
I cannot accept it. [11]
Pray accept my apologies. [11]
They accept it. [9]

Sentences containing accept two or more times

They are essentially slavish, and accept the common determination, seeking no better lot than to be led by any one ox who has enough self-reliance to accept the position. [1]

More example sentences with the word accept in them

As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now..." "I cannot accept your praise," he interrupted her hurriedly. [2]
He has followed your precept, Madam; I hope you accept his conclusions. [6]
I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. [7]
Bring this before your mind, and everything else that you must accept with it, if you consent, when the time arrives, to become mine. [10]
But I pray you, do not accept this law upon my say-so; but diligently examine for yourself. [5]
Tell me how you have made this money before I accept it. [9]
And will you--will you accept gold from me? [13]
I could not, would not, go under the poor-law and accept you, with the lash of a broken pledge in your hand, as my guardian. [11]
What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods. [10]
In payment he would accept nothing save the ordinary fees, as though it were some petty case in a county court. [11]
And Miss Lucretia, with that stern composure with which celebrities accept public situations, follows up the steps as of right and takes the chair he assigns her beside the chairman. [9]
If he agrees with most of them, let him be patient with an opinion he does not accept, or an expression or illustration a little too vivacious. [6]
It rested entirely with jungfrau Blomberg to decide whether she would accept it at so late an hour. [10]
The creditors were willing to accept fifty per cent. [5]
I beg you will therefore accept my most grateful thanks for this manifest devotion--not to me, but the institutions of this great and glorious country. [7]
Let those who will accept such insults. [10]
When a Senator, whose place is in Washington moving among the Great and guiding the destinies of the nation, condescends to mingle among the people and accept the hospitalities of such a place as Hawkeye, the honor is not considered a light one. [5]
I refused, but when I went out on the platform Osgood and the stenographer agreed to accept a section. [5]
It was only when he saw the mutineers would not accept the terms granted to the Spithead rebels that a new spirit influenced him. [11]
When she saw what she had done, she knew the reason of it and the meaning of it; and she put her work away from her and said she would accept the sign. [5]
Probably because she was too proud to accept alms from a man from whom her ardent heart vainly desired something better. [10]
The principal one was that she would find there several old friends of former days, one of whom, her singing-master Feys, had promised to accept her voice and enable her to serve her art again with full pleasure. [10]
No little shock was it to have man after man tell her that he dare not accept her kind offer. [13]
But as she was honest and clear-sighted, she could not accept a statement which seemed so plainly in contradiction with his common teachings, without bringing his flattering assertion to the test of another question. [6]
In this she was doubtless right; yet was I startled when, with the steadfast will which she ever showed, she said that, after duly weighing the matter, she had made up her mind to accept the Magister. [10]
But the instant warning of the mind that his Highness could never and would never accept the daughter of a Jersey ship-builder restrained him. [11]
This theory was warmly complimented by Ptolemy, who, however, after much thought and research, decided that he could not accept it as final. [5]
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. [7]
But as he walked languidly along, some ladies saw him across the street, and seeing, were moved with pity, and pitying, spoke such soft words that he was tempted to accept their invitation and rest awhile beneath their hospitable roof. [6]
It was not very long before Myrtle began to accept the idea that she was the one person in the world whose peculiar duty it was to sympathize with the aspiring young man whose humble beginnings she had the honor of witnessing. [6]
He was more used to the rules of evidence than she was, and could not accept her positive conclusion so readily as she would have liked to have him. [6]
Arnot wrote Clemens urging him to accept the check for five thousand dollars in this moment of need. [5]
He had made up his mind that she would be sure to accept him if he asked her a second time. [11]
Those persons are uninteresting, certainly, who have gone so far in culture that they accept conventional standards supposed to be correct, to which they refer everything, and by which they measure everybody. [4]
Mademoiselle," he added, turning to the flushing Suzanne, "I pray that you will accept this present with every assurance of my humble regard. [9]
The New York Tribune was for it, and understood it to mean that we must accept gradual emancipation according to the plan suggested, or get something worse. [7]
Then, if the transformation does not come, they seem to think their cares and duties are at an end, and, considering their theories of human destiny, usually accept the situation with wonderful complacency. [6]
Mr. Bernard's professional training had made him slow to accept marvellous stories and many forms of superstition. [6]
It stands ready to-day to accept anything from any theorist, from any empiric who can make out a good case for his discovery or his remedy. [3]
Then wherefore look to them--even were communication possible --for proofs of immortality and accept them as oracles? [5]
If I were to stick you with this hat-pin, for instance, you would accept the matter as a positive insult. [9]
Their tendency is to reject the truth which is generally accepted, and to accept the improbable; if the impossible offers itself, they deny the existence of the impossible. [6]
Now she wants to inflict on the old man, Barine's grandfather, whom she loves, some injury which the spoiled, imprudent woman will scarcely accept quietly, and which will rouse her to commit some folly that can be used against her. [10]
Caesar was anxious to bring them into fashion, and it might safely be expected that those Alexandrians who had held out their hands to accept them would appear in them on the morrow, as no order required that they should be worn. [10]
I suggest it to be so framed as for us to accept a smaller force--even a company--if we cannot get a regiment or more. [7]
Prosperity is said to be more trying than adversity, a theory which most people are willing to accept without trial; but few men stand the drying out of the natural sap of their greenness in the artificial heat of city life. [4]
We are obliged to accept the fact, unexplained, and we can do no more for vaccination than for the rest. [3]
Her dauntless determination to accept the consequence of her acts, her willingness to look her future in the face, cried out to him in challenge. [9]
I am willing to accept Mr. Bigelow's loyal and honorable defence of his friend's memory as the best that could be said for Mr. Seward, but the best defence in this case is little better than an impeachment. [6]
He urged me to accept more, but I did not wish to outdo Providence. [5]
This is hard to accept literally, but we need not doubt that he was very old, and in remarkably good condition for a man of his age. [6]
There had been times when Murray Bradshaw would have offered his heart and hand to Myrtle at once, if he had felt sure that she would accept him. [6]
At the same time that he refused the colonel's demand he made up his mind that he must have recourse to artifice when leaving Orel, to induce the Italian officer to accept some money of which he was evidently in need. [2]
Over there, twenty thousand people in a million elect themselves gentlemen and ladies, and the nine hundred and eighty thousand accept that decree and swallow the affront which it puts upon them. [5]
To enjoy it, though but for a brief season, she ought not to refuse to bear the hardest, most terrible things, and, if what was now her secret became rumoured among the people, to accept humiliation, shame, and scorn. [10]
Women generally encourage this notion, and men by their gingerly treatment of it seemed to accept it. [4]
Having disposed of this likewise and put the box carefully in her pocket, she said,-- 'I am to accept or reject at once, am I? [12]
Two years after this he was unanimously invited to accept the Presidency of that body; and he lived to see his doctrine established, and all reputable opposition withdrawn. [3]
In discharge of this debt, and as a means of retaining you at my court, I beg you to accept one hundred talents from my treasury. [10]
I give thee, therefore, only a few wholesome counsels, and only fear that though I offer them with my right hand, thou wilt accept them with the left. [10]
To go with them, not to care, to accept Jack's idle, good-natured, easy philosophy of life and conduct, would not that have insured a peaceful life? [4]
He should lament their refusal to accept it, but he had no designs beyond their refusal of it. [7]
I have received the volume and letter which you did me the honor of addressing to me, and for which please accept my sincere thanks. [7]
They must reject the unfit productions of those whom they long to befriend, because it would be a profligate charity to accept them. [6]
Carlton's half of the story was that he did not accept Mark Twain's book because the author looked so disreputable. [5]
He may accept the pragmatism of James, the idealism of Royce, or even what is called neo realism. [9]
I cannot accept the pass, simply because I do not wish to be retained. [9]
I will accept the office of mediator. [10]
No matter if the object of this kind wish is a centenarian, it is quite safe to assume that he is ready and very willing to accept as many more years as the disposing powers may see fit to allow him. [6]
Thou canst accept the money for him, and when thou art in the Soudan, and he is going to do it, thou canst prevent it. [11]
Let me ask the man who could maintain this position most stiffly, what compensation he will accept to go to church some Sunday and sit during the sermon with his wife's bonnet upon his head? [7]
Wassef replied that the Mamour did well not to accept the backsheesh of Mahommed Selim's father, for the Mouffetish at the palace of Ismail would have heard of it, and there would have been an end to the Mamour. [11]
Yet when, on the day of fasting, the invitation to sing came, he permitted Barbara to accept it, because it was the Emperor who summoned her. [10]
The generosity of the act benumbed my senses, and for the instant I was inclined to accept the offer upon the impulse of it. [9]
Two weeks following the above he wrote Redpath that he would accept no more engagements at any price, outside of New England, and added, "The fewer engagements I have from this time forth the better I shall be pleased. [5]
There was that that would neither be denied nor turned aside, nor accept any subterfuge. [4]
It is not that there is any laborious attention to pay her; she requires, and will accept, but little nursing; but there would be hazard, and anxiety of mind, beyond what you ought to be subject to. [14]
How is it that spirits that are content to spend an eternity in frivolous employments, and accept it as happiness, are so fastidious about frivolous questions upon the subject? [5]
The matron's remark that she, too, was invited to the reception at the imperial residence that evening brought an earnest entreaty from Eva to accept the invitation for her sake, and the Swabian promised to gratify her if nothing occurred to prevent. [10]
Please accept my thanks; and, at the same time, pardon me for not having sooner found time to tender them. [7]
Now accept the thanks of a lady whose heart is grateful; for your obedience helped me win the wager. [10]
Now accept my thanks for your well-meant counsel and the use of your room. [10]
And so I thank you sincerely for the invitation; and with you, all Reno, and if I were a few years younger I would accept it, and promptly. [5]
Yet this same tender enthusiasm was sincere enough to make him accept the fact of his marriage without discontent, even in the glamour of new and alluring ambitions. [11]
You could never take time from your great duties to accept the invitations of our literary committee, alas! [9]
But, said I, suppose the victor should decline to accept his spoil? [5]
He knew that such a strike as this had engendered bitterness, there had been much suffering, sacrifice undoubtedly on both sides, but he was sure, if Mr. Antonelli and the Committee would accept their services here he was interrupted. [9]
In the present state of our knowledge upon this point I should consider such doubts merely as a proof that the sceptic had either not examined the evidence, or, having examined it, refused to accept its plain and unavoidable consequences. [3]
There was a spirit of defiance which refused to accept favours, preferring punishment to the pity or the pardon which stooped to make it easier for her. [11]
The widow was soon informed of all that had occurred in her absence, and an hour later she had announced to the bishop that she would accept the call to Besa and was ready to start for Upper Egypt. [10]
Please accept my sincere thanks for what you have done and are doing to get troops forward. [7]
There are already signs that we are not to accept as the final judgment upon the English contemporaries of Irving the currency their writings have now. [4]
The golden rule should govern us in dealing with those whom we call unbelievers, with heathen, and with all who do not accept our religious views. [6]
She did not shirk hers, and was willing to accept a full measure. [9]
The idea that she would refuse to accept the fate to which he had condemned her was incomprehensible to his sense of power, and therefore did not occur to his mind. [10]
But, much as she appreciated him as a friend and counsellor, she could not accept his strict theology. [10]
But I have seen too much of the faith that deals in miracles to accept the supernatural in any shape,--assuredly when it comes from an old witch-like creature who takes pay for her revelations of the future. [6]
You should have seen his face when they would accept no fee at all for the beauty! [9]
We accept the saying unquestioning, as a sort of inspiration out of the air, true because nobody has challenged it for ages, and probably for the same reason that we try to see the new moon over our left shoulder. [4]
He bore no resentment after the first tingling moments were-past; he rather admired her for it; and he would have been ready to go back half an hour later and accept pardon and be on the footing of last summer again. [8]

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