350 collocations for confronted

When dinner was over the Major led them into the sitting-room, turned up the lights, and then confronted the little man with a determined and majestic air.

And as he told them of the man who was poor and sorrowful and alone, and how he loved and was not loved again, and trusted and was betrayed, and was tempted and drawn into the darkness, so that it seemed as if he must perish; but when hope was almost gone, turned again from the edge of despair, and confronted all his enemies, and fought and conqueredthe people followed every word with great outcries of love and pity and wonder.

Would not a brave fellow choose to appear in court to such an arraignment, confronting women who would do credit to his attempt?

We do well to extol peace, to confront the dangers, labour, and temptations of peace, and to hope for the general happiness of man in her continuance.

Chilled and heart-sick he turned, and with no torch and missing the voice which had guided him through the long, dark passage, he groped his way to his cabinet and sat down to confront a graver problem than any he had ever conquered with Marina's aid.

As she confronted her visitor her demeanor was cold and suspicious.

The people were divided mainly into three parties, and the difficulties confronting the King were formidable.

"We confronted himthe mother, the baby, and I; and then I knew that he was a fiend.

In short, the women of Great Britain are working side by side with men in the initiation and execution of plans to solve the problems which confront the nation.

Whereto serues mercy, But to confront the visage of Offence?

He confronted the maid upon the threshold with something like a smile.

It was his duty, like that of the bull in the herd, or the ram among the flocks, to confront every peril in his own person, to be foremost in all the hardships of war and the most deeply immersed in all the toils of peace.

A change was observable in this degenerate son of the Cumberlands since many there had confronted him face to face.

He would not flinch at confronting the whole German army.

In 1841 Joshua R. Giddings, from Ohio, and in 1843 John P. Hale from New Hampshire and Hannibal Hamlin from Maine brought in fresh Northern air and confronted the slave-power in Congress, in alliance with grand old John Quincy Adams,whose last years were his best years, and have illumined his name.

The back of the cornice, with its plaster stained and cracked, confronts your eyes; and with a little imagination you can easily fancy yourself in a dungeon looking into some castle moat.

But now, as Grimes, his red cheeks puffed out, his little eyes snapping in a way that many knew meant danger (with a large D)as the rich Corn-chandler, whose word was law to a good many, turned and confronted this lounging, long-legged individual,such as remained closed round them in a ring, in keen expectation of what was to follow.

The letter's a manifest forgery, as I'll prove by confronting Feisul with it.

The South is now taking the field with all its strength; but when that strength is broken, what power will remain to confront the forces of the Union?

The British could not expose themselves without danger of being struck by a German bullet; and the Germans confronted the same situation.

"Didn't I smell your breath?" Bill Gregg dropped his own glass on the table and hurriedly came to confront his host by the side of Ronicky.

At a subsequent visit, looking more critically at the irregular circle of dwellings that surround the yew-tree and confront the church, I perceived that some of the houses must have been built within no long time, although the thatch, the quaint gables, and the old oaken framework of the others diffused an air of antiquity over the whole assemblage.

The danger which confronted the British peoples was never so great in any previous period as it was during the year 1917 when the submarine menace was at its height, and it may be hoped that the lessons to be learned from the history of those months will never be forgotten.

Any reader who has the interest and persistence to read through the entire volume and to browse through some of its references will have had the equivalent of a university extension course dealing with one of the most critical issues confronting the present generation of humanity.

Mercy turned just in time to confront a stout, red-faced, old gentleman with a big cane, who was literally on the point of walking over her.

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