They have some of the finest woods in the country.” Elizabeth said no more—but her mind could not acquiesce.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Their brother had been much younger when Cersei wed the first time; he might not acquiesce to a second marriage quite so easily.
George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
If I want anything I shall call out, and you can come to me at once.” I could not but acquiesce, for I was “dog-tired,” and could not have sat up had I tried.
Bram Stoker
Dracula
But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg, I was obliged to acquiesce; and accordingly prepared to set about this business with a determined rushing sort of energy and vigor, that should quickly settle that trifling little affair.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Sanity appeals and argues; our rulers persevere in their customary porkishness, while we acquiesce and obey.
Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
It must be noted, by the way, that Pyotr Petrovitch had during those ten days eagerly accepted the strangest praise from Andrey Semyonovitch; he had not protested, for instance, when Andrey Semyonovitch belauded him for being ready to contribute to the establishment of the new “commune,” or to abstain from christening his future children, or to acquiesce if Dounia were to take a lover a month after marriage, and so on.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations