Meets

Examples

• The doctor-seeking messenger meets the doctor halfway, coming under convoy of police. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If Fred Bentinck meets a woman of my loose morals in this dress, _il croira que c'est la belle Madeleine! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I can't deny, I said, that the plan you propose meets the difficulty in a way that is very daring, and very ingenious, and very new. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• GENERAL:--Sherman's movements will depend on the amount of opposition he meets with from the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When a ball meets more than one ball, it divides its motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is well for a Sir Philip Nunnely to redden when he meets her eye. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• People will say bad things if they find out that a lady secretly meets a man who has ill-used another woman. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I feel it as a wery high compliment, sir; it's a wery honorable thing to them, as they knows how to reward merit werever they meets it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The author meets two Houyhnhnms. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There are other very well-meaning people whom one meets every day in Vanity Fair who are surely equally oblivious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There is more in this than meets the eye. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The more issues a party meets the less votes it is likely to poll. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• John Carter has made a proposal, he said, addressing the council, which meets with my sanction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• In practice, education meets these conditions, and hence is general, in the degree in which it takes account of social relationships. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Here I am, with the Diamond safe and sound--and what is the first news that meets me? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When this vapor meets a cold wind or is chilled in any way, condensation takes place, and a mass of tiny drops of water or of small particles of snow is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Are they really so very different to most people one meets with? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The human body, cloth, leather, metals, wood and grains, everything that needs rubbing, cleaning, painting and polishing, meets the acquaintance of the brush. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A dog naturally loves a man above his own species, and very commonly meets with a return of affection. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When light from any luminous object falls upon books, desks, or dishes, it meets rough surfaces, and hence undergoes diffuse reflection, and is scattered irregularly in all directions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I know it meets your approval? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If it meets these two requirements, it is educative. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• That, you see,' said Mr. Peggotty, bending over me with great glee, 'meets two objects. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Maternity must forth to the streets, to the herb-makers and bakers'-queues; meets there with hunger-stricken Maternity, sympathetic, exasperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If Ivanhoe ever returns from Palestine, I will be his surety that he meets you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Using this stove in combination with the ovenette, which will be illustrated further on, the owner is provided with a table range which meets most of the requirements in a small family. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Fortunate indeed is he who meets his end in an early death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• This other woman is some person he has picked up with, and meets on the heath occasionally, I believe. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This is because the current meets more resistance within the gravity cell than within the voltaic cell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Looking down at her face, his eye meets hers, and he stops. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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