Why and how were the battles of Shevardino and Borodino given and
accepted? Why was the battle of Borodino fought?
Yes, you have betrayed our friendship, Makar Alexievitch, in that you have not been open with me; and, now that I see that your last coin has been spent upon dresses and bon-bons and excursions and books and visits to the theatre for me, I weep bitter tears for my unpardonable improvidence in having
accepted these things without giving so much as a thought to your welfare.
After very little farther discourse, it was finally settled that the invitation should be fully
accepted. Mrs.
Without thinking about it, he
accepted this disappearing into the wall as a peculiarity of his father, as milk and half- digested meat were peculiarities of his mother.
Accept their bounty while ye may, Before we be
accepted by the worms,"
His proposal of marriage being
accepted by the lady, the commissary took his seat behind the proprieties with great decorum, and Mrs General drove until the commissary died.
Naturally the Romans
accepted it, as they did everything of the kind that was, or might be, useful.
He proposed marriage to her for the second time--and (after having being
accepted) he consented, at her request, to consider the marriage as broken off.
The present is afterwards
accepted. The people are forbidden to sell them provisions.
At first he
accepted much of what people brought him--tea, sugar, white bread, milk, clothing, and fire-wood.
"Certainly--she
accepted, some time since, with as heavenly a 'yes' as ever came from the ruby lips of love."
If his father and mother
accepted the invitation, Isabel's only objection to hastening the union would fall to the ground.