82 Metaphors for meetings

These meetings were the joy and comfort of the slaves, and even those who did not profess Christianity were calm and thoughtful while in attendance.

The meeting with this caravan was really a blessing from Heaven.

She always found me on my balcony when she came out, and soon our open-air meetings became such an established fact that, instead of parting with "good-night," we said "au revoirtill to-morrow."

King, Czar and Emperor, or Emperor and Emperor would meet, and it was understood that these meetings were the lubrication of European affairs.

And right fitting was it, too, that such a meeting should be hold on the banks of the Doon, the stream of which he has sung so sweetly, within sight of the cot where he was born, the beautiful monument erected by his countrymen, and more than all, beside "Alloway's witch-haunted wall!"

Now, among children of a larger growth, in festive times hostile demonstrations cease; animosities are buried; but in Boyville a North-ender is a North-ender, a South-ender is a South-ender, and a meeting of the two is a fight.

The meeting was an assembly of various classes, with a preponderance of young persons, and was a very interesting occasion: many of the young people were deeply affected.

The meeting at Taighill was a repetition of the others, and we passed on to Kushva.

The first meeting I attended was the anniversary of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which, though held at a distance from the centre of the city, in consequence of the pre-engagement of the New York Tabernacle, was well attended, and I believe gave general satisfaction.

"Our meeting at this place may be a carefully contrived stratagem, but it was not contrived by me.

The Annual Meeting of the British Ladies Society, an excellent organisation for visiting and caring for female convicts, although usually held at Westminster, was this year held in the Friends' meeting-house at Plaistow.

To present to their consideration from time to time subjects in which the interests of the nation are most deeply involved, and for the regulation of which the legislative will is alone competent, is a duty prescribed by the Constitution, to the performance of which the first meeting of the new Congress is a period eminently appropriate, and which it is now my purpose to discharge.

Our accidental meeting in the street after a long separation was a pleasing surprize to us both.

But, if I am the meeting, don't propose as a resolution that this meeting is tête montée.

The Newmarket Meeting in 1805 was the next fixture that was inaugurated, and this now remains with the champion stakes as its most important event.

In reality, however, the meeting of the two queens, while theatrically very effective, is not the true climax of the play.

Probably the weekly meeting for Bible-reading and prayer, which she conducted, was her closest link with the women of Dorset; but these meetings were established after I had bidden good-bye to the dear old town, and I leave others to tell how their "hearts burned within them as she opened to them the Scriptures.

This casual meeting was the commencement of an agreeable and friendly intercourse.

He told us that the last meeting he had attended in England, a few months before, was the missionary meeting in Birmingham.

This informal meeting was the origin of the organization known in this community as "The 1860 Association.

In Johnson's Works (1787), xi. 213, it is said, that this meeting was 'at the Bishop of St. 's [Asaph's].

The Duke thinks the King will yield, and that the meeting will be a failure.

As life had been planned for them, all subsequent meetings must be merely trivialities.

A young people's meeting is a signal for every old dame in the township that's not married to iron out her white silk waist and take it on the run for the tabernacle.

The meetings for the discipline of the Society were often times of spiritual refreshment to him.

82 Metaphors for  meetings