Use consent in a sentence
Sentences ending with consent
- But what they wouldn't consent to do, we had to do without the formality of consent. [5]
- It must be with her consent. [6]
- May we rely upon your consent? [10]
- You have done up your hair in this new way for the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent. [2]
- And then Master Ulman had sworn to Gotz that he would keep his daughter locked up as a captive unless the youth pledged himself to cease from seeing Gertrude till he had won his parents' consent. [10]
- They told her to wait a year and a day, and if at the end of that time she still felt that she could not marry the Duke, she might marry the lawyer with their full consent. [5]
- I'm not trying to limit their generosity--indeed no, they may pile that Standard Oil, Helen Keller College Fund as high as they please, they have my consent. [5]
- If we take these lands (said he) it will not be without your consent. [7]
- So they gave their consent. [2]
- As soon as the right victim could be found, the people should be invited to give their consent. [10]
Short sentences using consent
- The Emperor gave his consent. [2]
Sentences containing consent two or more times
- They were elected without their consent from among those who wrote to him without his consent, and it is not likely that any one so chosen declined membership. [5]
- This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it without their consent. [7]
- This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent or buy them, and drive them to it without their consent. [7]
- I feared the accident of disclosure, and any new failure on my part to get away would, I knew, mean my instant death, consent of King or no consent. [11]
More example sentences with the word consent in them
- I consent to your saying "blood horse," if you like. [6]
- 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]
- To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
- I really wish you could consent to this. [7]
- The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
- Well, if he wouldn't consent, but should even strenuously protest and say he wouldn't serve if elected, isn't it still wise and fair to nominate him and vote for him? [5]
- I knew he would never consent to spend the season at the Star and Garter at my expense. [9]
- I repeat, I would like for Col. Bayles to raise a regiment of cavalry whenever the Union men of Kentucky desire or consent to it. [7]
- Consequently, no boatmen would consent to pass the cave at night; the peasants shunned the place, even in the daytime. [5]
- And whereas he would by no means consent, the dispute was taken up by others present and Jorg Loffelholz devised the fancy of holding a Court of Love to decide the case. [10]
- They turned, as with one consent, down the path toward the distant water. [9]
- Marcus, no doubt, will be happy to have won you; but if he does not succeed in gaining his mother's consent he will not continue happy you may rely upon it. [10]
- These social qualities, which Miss Sally first discovered by accident, gradually made such an impression upon her, that she would entreat Mr Swiveller to relax as though she were not by, which Mr Swiveller, nothing loth, would readily consent to do. [12]
- We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this Capital. [7]
- And the Tribune was prepared to state; on its own authority, that a Mr. Humphrey Crewe did exist, and might reluctantly consent to take the nomination for the governorship. [9]
- So let us wait for your brother's consent, and may the gods give their blessing! [10]
- Acting with his usual promptness, Philip, with the consent of Mr. Bolton, broke ground there at once, and, before snow came, had some rude buildings up, and was ready for active operations in the spring. [5]
- Think rather, if truth is so hard of attainment, how precious are the results which the consent of the wisest and most experienced among the healers of men agrees in accepting. [6]
- Probably the Eiffel Tower would be stricken down as a monumental presumption, like that of Babel, if it had not been raised with the full knowledge and consent of all the world. [4]
- At last I took out my portfolio and wrote these words on a sheet:-- "If Mrs. Clive will consent to a meeting with Mr. David Ritchie, he will deem it a favor. [9]
- Here we are told that governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. [7]
- Give your consent to the marriage, and Jethro Bass will go back to Coniston. [9]
- I cannot consent to suspend the draft in New York, as you request, because, among other reasons, time is too important. [7]
- But she hesitated to reply, and ere he could win from her even the faintest shadow of consent, Ernst Ortlieb, who had been talking with other members of the council in the room where the wine was served, interrupted him to take his daughter home. [10]
- His friends appeal to me and if his colonel and you consent, I will send him to his regiment. [7]
- Then he begins to loll--for a person who can consent to loaf his useless life away in ignominious indolence has not the energy to sit up straight. [5]
- This I propose to do, with your consent, this evening. [6]
- They begged him to consent to see her. [5]
- It was at this time that Dyck Calhoun--who, by consent of Richard Parker, had taken control of the Ariadne--took action which was to alter the course of his own life and that of many others. [11]
- A transgression of this ancient custom was very rare, and even though Wolff's heart was fired with love for Els Ortlieb, his father, Herr Vorchtel thought, should have refused his consent to the betrothal, especially as he had already treated Ursel as his future daughter. [10]
- Without boasting, I think I may say I am not afraid to stand before a modern French duelist, but as long as I keep in my right mind I will never consent to stand behind one again. [5]
- By common consent the younger brother assumed permanently the position of family counselor and financier. [5]
- It was scarcely the way in which a school-teacher should receive the advances of the first citizen, come to give a gracious consent to her marriage with his son. [9]
- Now, full of the warmest confidence, he asked whether she would consent to rule as mistress of his home, the honour and ornament of his ancient name? [10]
- By common consent the rifle crack of day and night was hushed, and even the Parrotts were silent. [9]
- He guessed that the request was connected with Hector Caron's death; and, of course, gave his consent. [11]
- The news of the probable advent of Mr. Giles Henderson on the field, as well as the tidings of his actual consent to be a candidate, were not slow in reaching Leith. [9]
- It neither has the power nor the will to affect the property of any one contrary to his consent. [7]
- How many of the living occupants of thrones, dukedoms, earldoms, and such high places are in position on their own merits, or would be put there by common consent? [4]
- The speeches at the John Brown, the Walter Scott, and the Free Religious Association meetings were published at the time, no doubt with his consent, but without any active co-operation on his part. [6]
- In this way the internal improvement Democrats are to be, by a sort of forced consent, carried over and arrayed against themselves on this measure of policy. [7]
- On Saturday morning, the heat being unusual, they ended their game by common consent at the fourth hole and descended a wood road to Silver Brook, to a spot which they had visited once before and had found attractive. [9]
- I believe that the fathers were right in making government depend upon the consent of the governed. [4]
- I have served the emperor willingly, but before I consent become the wife of such a monster--" "She is right," broke in Euryale, and drew Melissa toward her. [10]
- And as for the bushels of sketches and studies which Millet shovelled out during the six weeks that we were on the road, well, it would astonish you to know the figure we sell them at nowadays--that is, when we consent to let one go! [5]
- They were crossing the bridge at Stanley Street, now deserted, and by common consent they paused in the middle of it, leaning on the rail. [9]
- Colonel Woodburn had the anxiety, in view of his daughter's engagement, when she asked his consent to it, that such a dreamer must have in regard to any reality that threatens to affect the course of his reveries. [8]
- While I admit that there is an apparent impropriety in the publication of the letter mentioned, without my consent or yours, it is still a case where no evil could result, and which I am entirely willing to overlook. [7]
- When he discovered that the young man was carrying on a love affair with his daughter, he had summoned him before a court of justice for a breach of the law which forbade minors to betroth themselves without parental consent. [10]
- Is it just that she shall now be off without consent or without making any return? [7]
- I am confident that land can be made to produce for Mother at least $30 a year, and I can not, to oblige any living person, consent that she shall be put on an allowance of sixteen dollars a year. [7]
- To tell her that he, Caesar, had found a wife after his own heart, and to win her favor and consent. [10]
- We all admit that certain pieces of literature have become classic; by general consent there is no dispute about them. [4]
- One hour and ten minutes before Mrs. Clemens died I was saying to her "To-day, after five months search, I've found the villa that will content you: to-morrow you will examine the plans and give it your consent and I will buy it. [5]
- All that Gen. Taylor is not only to consent to, but appeal to the people to judge and act for themselves. [7]
- It was, unquestionably, taking a great liberty with a man to decide that he should become felo de se without his own consent. [6]
- As if by tacit consent, every incident or development of Lali's life was influenced by his judgment and decision. [11]
- As the horses started off at a quick trot, Honora saw that the group on the station platform had with one consent swung about to stare after them. [9]
- There was much speculation as to the amount of Henderson's fortune, and many wild estimates of it, but by common consent he was one of the three or four great capitalists. [4]
- This was a source of pleasure, for since Wolff had extorted his consent to the betrothal with Els Ortlieb, and thus estranged him from the Vorchtels, he had seriously feared that he had ceased to love him. [10]
- Everybody was feeling so well that even the grave, pale young man (who, by a sort of kindly common consent, had come latterly to be referred to as "The Ass") received frequent and friendly notice--which was right enough, for there was no harm in him. [5]
- She shrugged her shoulders, nodded consent, and said-- "Abscha shall hold it as a pledge till Mena's booty arrives. [10]
- Woo her, and, should she consent freely, the marriage may be celebrated on the day when I return home. [10]
- But if she should consent to become his without the blessing of Hymen? [10]
- As a favor, she might consent to warm a flock of sparrows for you, but then she might take that very opportunity to turn herself loose and bury a city. [5]
- He knew that she had really tried to consent to a thing that was repugnant to her, and in his heart he gave her more credit for the effort than he had allowed her openly. [8]
- To nearly every severe and fierce rule, Mrs. Eddy adds this rivet: "This By-law shall not be changed without the consent of the Pastor Emeritus. [5]
- What the poem seems to say is, that a person would be coldly ungrateful who could consent to count and consider little spots and flaws in such a warm, great, satisfying sun as Harriet is. [5]
- The old man's scheme certainly found favor with the Negro; still, it seemed to him in many respects so daring that, but for an equivalent service which Horapollo was in a position to offer Obada, he would scarcely have succeeded in obtaining his consent. [10]
- I want to say that my conscience has not been clear since, as a member of the prudential committee, I gave my consent to the dismissal of Miss Wetherell. [9]
- What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. [7]
- He went to Rhodopis at once, besought her not to refuse him the hand of her granddaughter, spoke of his ardent love, and assured her that his happiness would be doubled, if she would consent to accompany them to Persia. [10]
- I think I realize that caste does not exist and cannot exist except by common consent of the masses outside of its limits. [5]
- That is by Queensland law the age of consent, though it is held that recruiters allow themselves some latitude in guessing at ages. [5]
- I call it prudence, and applaud it; though it cost my poor eyes a thousand bitter tears before my heart and brain could consent to be guided by the warning voice. [10]
- When Saturday evening proved pleasant and Barop had given his consent, there was great rejoicing in the institute, and the morning hours must have yielded the teachers little satisfaction. [10]
- My son having proved his earnestness, I was about to consent to the marriage of my own accord. [9]
- The persistence of privilege is an unexplained thing in human affairs, and the consent of mankind to be led in government and in fashion by those to whom none of the original conditions of leadership attach is a philosophical anomaly. [4]
- Mr. Chairman, the President seems to think that enough may be done, in the way of improvements, by means of tonnage duties under State authority, with the consent of the General Government. [7]
- I know the power of love too, and I will help you to gain our mother's consent. [10]
- If you consent, please write so at the bottom of this. [7]
- Presently Detricand and Philip were the only names mentioned, but at last, as by common consent, Philip was settled upon, for such evidence as there was pointed that way. [11]
- But when other people at last declared that it must have been Dolores, M. Fille insisted on telegrams being sent by the magistrate at Vilray without Jean Jacques' consent. [11]
- Not a day passed without our meeting; and after my heart had moved me to tell Cousin Maud all that had happened, and Herdegen had given his consent, we were rid once for all of the mystery which had at first weighed on our souls. [10]
- I, for my part, begged him personally most urgently and finally wrote him, but nothing would induce him to consent. [2]
- On reaching her own house, Maria attempted to take leave of her companion, but the latter earnestly entreated permission to have an interview with Henrica at once, and could scarcely be convinced that he must have patience until the doctor had given his consent. [10]
- Papias had been out, but the young man did not deem it necessary to ask his consent, for he and the other assistants had often used the things for similar purposes with his full permission. [10]
- Mrs. Clemens dreads our going to New Orleans, but I tell her she'll have to give her consent this time. [5]
- We joyfully gave our consent, and, within a few days, perhaps to-morrow, the suitor will come from Messina with your master to see his bride. [10]
- And yet no one dared to ask the king's consent. [10]
- Scribblers will feed on each other, and if we insist on being scribblers we must consent to be fed on. [6]
- Not until his old opponent, to whom I owed my existence, was on his death-bed, did Herr Hans clasp hands with him in reconciliation, and consent to our betrothal. [10]
- To take the old corsair into their confidence now would not be advisable, for, on account of his mother's near presence, he would scarcely consent to enter into the peril. [10]
- I know enough of the hideous terror which this awful being creates around him; and before I would consent to let it torture me to death by day and by night-morning, noon, and evening--far rather would I die this very day. [10]
- But the members of the Brampton Club could take a hint, and with one consent began to make excuses. [9]
- I never heard of that brigade by name and do not know where it is; yet, presuming it is in New York, I say I will gladly accept it, if tendered by and with the consent and approbation of the Governor of that State. [7]
- The legal guardians of our estate, having my uncle's consent, took my Cousin Maud's suretyship, and expressed themselves willing to pay the fine out of the moneys left by our parents, into the Imperial treasury. [10]
- One or two of his colleagues saw the drift of his policy and would have thrown him over if they could have replaced him by a man as capable, who would, at the time, consent to grow rich on their terms. [11]
- The Grand Duke of Galilee, minister of war, complained that all the sixteen grown men in the empire had been given great offices, and consequently would not consent to serve in the ranks; wherefore his standing army was at a standstill. [5]
- But by consent of every man who fought under McNeill that day, the biggest thing done among the Sikhs happened in the fiercest moment of the rush on the Berkshire zeriba. [11]
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