Encounters
[in'kauntəz]
Examples
- He ascends the door-steps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Here, you may look in whatsoever direction you please, and your eye encounters scarcely any thing but ruin, ruin, ruin! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Several sharp encounters occurred at this point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Perhaps there was a certain power of suggestion in these encounters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Johnston's cavalry meanwhile had been well out towards our front, and occasional encounters occurred between it and our outposts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- True it is that his soldiers, who, save for a few rare melodramatic encounters, saw nothing of him, idolized their Little Corporal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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