Meetings

Examples

• Here is a man who has not forgotten an item in our meetings at Rainbarrow--he is in company with your husband. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It would have all ended in a regular standing flirtation, in yearly meetings at Sotherton and Everingham. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Haak from the German Palatinate was one of the earliest Fellows of the Society, and is even credited by Wallis wit h being the first to suggest the meetings of 1645. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• As a speaker at charitable meetings the like of him for drawing your tears and your money was not easy to find. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Of very important, very recordable events, it was not more productive than such meetings usually are. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Their meetings were full of rapturous and romantic delight. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• From this slight occasion sprang two meetings that I have now to tell of. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• These meetings were carried on with the greatest secrecy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But we had repetitions of church and prayer-meetings; and so, of course, we were just as eligibly situated as we could have been any where. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am the only man who knows of your meetings with him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• These lectures proved remarkably popular, and for ten years he repeated them at the meetings of the Board of Agriculture. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is here that directors' meetings are sometimes held, and also where weighty matters are often discussed by Edison at conference with his closer associates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sir Pitt that pattern of decorum, Sir Pitt who had led off at missionary meetings--he never for one moment thought of not going too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Rudolph in some way came to hear of these stolen meetings, and surprised Austin walking with Rose one June evening. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He had seen him at political meetings and he had often read articles by him in Mundo Obrero translated from the French. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Some suspicion of clandestine meetings haunted his mind. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the mean time the weekly meetings in London continued, and were attended when convenient by members of the Ox ford group. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The first meetings went off with a certain humiliating clumsiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She knows of these meetings already. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He was in London, if not for the Parliament session, at least in May, for the religious meetings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• So when I write of Marx's influence I have in mind what men and women in socialist meetings, in daily life here in America, hold as a faith and attribute to Marx. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No; such meetings never are. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings. Jane Austen. Emma.
• During the morning, meetings were held and all manner of committees set to work on the celebration ceremonies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When they came to the dark corner where their unfrequent meetings always ended, they stopped, still silent, as if both were afraid to speak. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In a flash the two meetings had connected themselves in his mind. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We find the meetings going on in salons that were not wanted, in orangeries and tennis-courts, and so forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That night was full of talk and meetings and preparations for the morrow, and the next morning the Convention turned upon Robespierre. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The approach to issues, the way in which they shall be stressed, what shall be put forward in one part of the country and what in another, are discussed at these meetings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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