There has been a very long time for each side of that border to understand its length, and nonetheless, Richardson noticed that the Portuguese and Spanish maintained different official lengths for it.
Her hand was concealed in the folds of her dress and he cautiously wormed his hand to it and squeezed it, overwhelmed at his own boldness and at her acquiescence.
When Mamdani's New York kind of, you know, takes off, imagine what's going to come into the city because there's now going to be permissive culture and, you know, kind of permissive society to do this sort of stuff.
He passively acquiesced in her wish to go in, and they entered by the western door. The only person inside the gloomy building was a charwoman cleaning. Sue still held Jude's arm, almost as if she loved him.
And so part of the persuasive speech is not just winning people's tacit agreement, but certainly in some distinct situations is also about getting people to then do the thing that is going to make the difference.
But I have a good deal of influence in this district; and the colonel will not, I think, venture to take so extreme a course unless he can get, at least, my tacit consent to it.
Her careless allusion had no doubt been the straw held up to see which way the wind blew;the result had been reported to the family, and thereafter Archer had been tacitly omitted from their counsels.
There could be no better proof of that than his faith in Millner's power to grasp the situation, and his tacit recognition of the young man's right to make the most of it.
He spoke, and Alice responded, with a soft, subdued, inward acquiescence, and a bending of her form towards him, like the flame of a torch when it indicates a gentle draught of air.
He was strenuously trained in photography and in some other arts and, with the quiet connivance of an influential man in Jamaica, found his way to the picture desk of the Gleaner.