My heart beats, and my hand trembles, as I write the awful affirmative, Yes!

"In other words," observed the Times representative, "you expect the moment of the British evacuation, if such a contingency arises, will coincide with the moment of India's preparedness and ability and conditions favourable for India to take over the Indian administration as a going concern and work it for the benefit and advancement of the Nation?" Mr. Gandhi answered the question with an emphatic affirmative.

From my own point of view the answer is in a vociferous affirmative.

The reply was an eager affirmative.

They had turned their heads away deliberately, and had responded in gutteral affirmatives when they were asked if it were not a pretty baby.

The knowing, upon being asked if they possess certain attributes, reply in an immediate affirmative and add others, just to be on the safe side.

But two negatives in the same clause, if they have any bearing on each other, destroy the negation, and render the meaning weakly affirmative; as, "Nor did they not perceive their evil plight.

I was surprised at myself that I did not at once reply with a passionate affirmative.

Yes, yes! I cannot take these peevish affirmatives, so much like intentional negatives!Say, you will, upon your honour.

Sur ce rideau se dessinent les choses qu'il désira apercevoir, et cela lui permet de donner des indications soit affirmatives, soit négatives, sur ce que l'on désire savoir.

She even remembered one of her own childish questions, and his brief, stern affirmative: "Mr. Holmes, were you ever in a prison?"

Certain favourers of Wordsworth answer our question with a triumphant affirmative, on the strength of some ethical, or metaphysical, or theological system which they believe themselves to find in him.

But two negatives in the same clause, if they have any bearing on each other, destroy the negation, and render the meaning weakly affirmative; as, "Nor did they not perceive their evil plight.

The blunt affirmative was accompanied by a singular grimace, such as might have been caused by the swallowing of something very unpleasant; and thereupon followed a silence which allowed Mr. Daffy to recover himself.

" Miss Bidwell, who was at once house-keeper, manager, and confidential servant to the Wolcott household, gave a cheerful affirmative; and as she laid down the stocking she was carefully darning, and prepared to leave the room, Miss Euphemia resumed her interrupted walk toward the kitchen.