"Acceptant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the morning, acceptant of what he had done in the night. A calmness had set in and with it had come a clarification of his thought. His grasp of the position was more definite, and his feeling was that, to meet it adequately, he must disattach ...
— Cleo The Magnificent - The Muse of the Real • Louis Zangwill
... congregation "fissirostres." The bird, however, is most vigilant when its mouth is widest, for it opens as a net to catch whatever comes in its way,—hence the French, giving the whole family the more literal name, "Gobble-fly"—Gobe-mouche, extend the term to the open-mouthed and too acceptant appearance of ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin |
