She stood aloof, poor little girl, tacitly doing as she was bidden, and Acquiescing in every thing, with her thin lips pressed into that hopeless line, or now and then opening to give vent to sharp, unchildlike speeches, so exceedingly like Aunt Henrietta's.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
We are accustomed to the business method of settling serious disputes by yielding at once to overwhelming power; by Acquiescing in the vote of the majority or the will of the richer man or clique that has bought up all the stock.
"The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal""
Sydney G. Fisher
Our senses were numbed; we passed whole hours together in a sort of torpor, just vaguely wondering whether a ship would come in sight to save us, obeying the merciful law that those who are utterly exhausted are incapable of acute fear, and Acquiescing in the probability of our own extinction.
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen