While she was thus engaged, Mr. Clinton left his chair with the feeble step of an invalid, crossed the room, addressed a question in a low voice to Willie, and receiving an affirmatory reply, took Isabel by the hand, and approaching Mr. Amory, exclaimed, with deep emotion, "Sir, Mr. Sullivan tells me you are the person who saved the life of my daughter; and here she is to thank you."
"The Lamplighter"
Maria S. Cummins
Her face turned pale for a moment and her lips trembled, but she spoke an affirmatory word only, and waited.
"In Direst Peril"
David Christie Murray
My grandfather nodded his head in assent, that being the only reply the avocation of smoking rendered convenient, just at that moment, unless a sort of affirmatory grunt could be construed into an auxiliary.
"Satanstoe"
James Fenimore Cooper