Word: consent
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Captain Scuffles could only consent. Mr. Carlin, with a surprising degree of agility considering his blindness, climbed down into the yacht, and I helped Bertha after; for the father's rudeness was surely no fault of the daughter. So, the skipper shoving the prow out and I loosing the hawsers, the Rosa cleared the pier, Mr. Carlin hoisting sail with marvellous expertness...
...odds of three to one, - and probably could not have done that if they had not been drunk, - but that was the only bet I made, as I could not find anybody else who would give me better than two to one, and I knew the fellows would never consent to that. But it shows just what sort of fellows the Harvard men are, - they never will bet a cent unless they have a perfectly fat thing...
Conkling & Cameron's Third Term (out of Office, by General Consent - dam Rascality...
...SECTION 31. - No person shall . . . paint or draw any words or figures; or post any written or printed matter upon the property of any private person or corporation, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof; nor upon any property of the city, without the consent of the mayor...