551 examples of accosted in sentences

With a finger he summoned the officer who had accosted him a moment before.

"Well" What Jack might have replied Frank never learned, for at that moment another German officer accosted them.

The wretch, led on by love, accosted thee.

With sudden relief, and a determination to thoroughly assure myself, I stepped forward and accosted him.

Nor, if accosted now, in thought engrossed, Moody, or inly troubled, would he seem To traveller who might talk of any casual theme.

Why nowbut yesterday I overtook A blind old Greybeard and accosted him, I' th' name of all the Saints, and by the Mass He should have used me better!Charity!

He was accosted by one of his German 'confrères.'

Returning thus to his tent in a melancholy mood, he saw a Fakír sitting down on the road, and him he anxiously accosted.

The man on horse-back was a thief taker, who, just before the carriage had driven up, had, without ceremony, accosted Mr. Godfrey with his enquiries, and a description of the person of whom he was in pursuit.

An old friend accosted him on the steps, 'What!

As the Macedonian bore down on the Americanher men at their quartersSukey and Tawney, who happened to be stationed at the quarter-deck battery, respectfully accosted the captain, as he passed them in his rapid promenade, his spyglass under his arm.

Fernando ordered his men to be ready to march at dark, and was hastening across the street to a tavern for his supper, when he was suddenly accosted by a familiar voice with: "Golly!

CHAPTER VII Philip Romilly was accosted, late that afternoon, by two young women whose presence on board he had noticed with a certain amount of disapproval.

"I am Violet Fox," the young woman who had accosted him continued.

There was an enterprising gentleman named Gayes in Liverpool, who nearly drove me crazy, then there's this Mr. Lawton who wants to talk about lasts, and finally it seems that I dined at the Trocadero and spent the evening at the Empire and Murray's with the two very obvious-looking young ladies who accosted me just now.

Whether it was that the descending twilight dispelled the painful constraint under which Marston had seemed to labor, or that some more purely spiritual and genial influence had gradually dissipated the repulsion and distrust with which, at first, he had shrunk from a renewal of intercourse with Dr. Danvers, he suddenly accosted him thus.

One day, as he was going an errand to Neck of Land, he was accosted by a meddlesome fellow named William Stump, with: "Master Robert, do you know you are soon to have a father-in-law?" (Stepfather was in those days known as father-in-law.)

Wheeling about from the window through which he had been nervously gazing, he accosted her with: "Mrs. Stevens, I have chosen this opportune moment" Here he choked.

One day, a year and a half after his marriage, he accosted the child, and she, shrinking with dread, failed to do his bidding.

Briefly their relations were symbolized by the circumstance that while Tutt always addressed his senior partner as "Mr. Tutt," the latter accosted him simply as "Tutt."

A man was passing along the street, and Ralph accosted him: "Please, can you tell me where Mr. Sharpman lives?"

Upon her nearer approach to Hercules, she stepped before the other lady, who came forward with a regular, composed carriage, and running up to him, accosted him after the following manner: "My dear Hercules!"

"Are you the bastard of Orleans?" asked she, when he accosted her.

A young man, who had witnessed the proceeding, got off at the same station and accosted me, saying: "I should be very thankful if you would come and see my baby.

He first accosted me by saying that I was the person, whom he was wishing to see.

551 examples of  accosted  in sentences