Confronted

Examples

• I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• With all the chances thus in our favour I confronted the next emergency, and played the second move in the game. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Scarcely had the blow descended when I was confronted with a new danger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• If energy remains, it will be rather a dangerous energy--deadly when confronted with injustice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Little Dorrit looked up, surprised, and they confronted Maggy, who brought herself at sight of them to a dead stop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In the overcoming of difficulties he has the same intellectual pleasure as the chess-master when confronted with a problem requiring all the efforts of his skill and experience to solve. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You was a saying, he observed, when we had confronted one another in silence, that surely I must understand. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Her eyes gleamed like fire as she confronted his mother, and broke into a frightful laugh. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• As I gained my feet I was confronted by the sentry on duty, into the muzzle of whose revolver I found myself looking. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Such was the nature of the problem that confronted Edison at the outset. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To lighten the camera burden, and to simplify the various photographic processes, were the problems that confronted the American inventor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What Brangwen thought himself to be, how meaningless it was, confronted with the reality of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What to do, was the important question that confronted him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I owed it to myself to consider the chances against me before I confronted them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The stimulus resides in the situation with which one is actually confronted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In Australia the problem of the transmission to the natives of various diseases, even by Europeans in apparent health, confronted his intelligence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We confronted each other in silence, with the full length of the room between us. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At first an expression of terror overspread the features of the woman who confronted me--then startled incredulity--hope--thanksgiving. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Confronted with a novelty, the first impulse is to snub it, and send it into exile. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here the greatest difficulty confronted Clayton, for he had no means whereby to hang his massive door now that he had built it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• As evidence in court its word cannot be doubted, and the witness confronted by his own utterances from the phonograph must yield to its infallible dictum. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She flung on her dressing-gown to answer the summons, and unlocking her door, confronted the shining vision of Lily Bart. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He has confronted many a serious physical risk, and counts himself lucky to have come through without a scratch or scar. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was nervous, impatient and restless on the march, or when important or responsible duty confronted him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The difficulty that confronted the invention of mowers was the construction, location and operation of the cutting part. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was the first time that he had confronted the fact of the indirectness of a woman's movement towards her desire. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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