Encountering

Examples

• His punishment had impressed him with no sense of shame, and he did not experience that feeling on encountering his chastiser. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was terrible to think of again encountering those bearded, sneering simpletons; yet the ground must be retraced, and the steps sought out. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Soon encountering the rebel cavalry he met with a very stout resistance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I advanced, in this manner, more than half way along the stick, without encountering anything but the edges of the rocks. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This his selected task was exchanged for the far different one of encountering the ruin caused by the convulsions of physical nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Have you no fear of encountering cavalry? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Hail, rain, or sunshine, you can't walk half a dozen yards up the street, without encountering half a dozen green parasols. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As to the little minstrel, he probably prefers encountering the Philistines with no other weapon than his flute. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You never charge me, Miss Wilfer,' said the Secretary, encountering her by chance alone in the great drawing-room, 'with commissions for home. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I travelled only at night, fearful of encountering the visage of a human being. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At other mills they had attacked they had found no resistance; an organized, resolute defence was what they never dreamed of encountering. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I dreaded encountering him at the opera, since we were to cut each other dead, and yet the effort must be made. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The sight was more unendurable than encountering the enemy's fire, and I returned to my tree in the rain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl; and, old as I am, I feared to have shame in encountering you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Typed by Carlyle