An Oxford scholar, meeting a porter who was carrying a hare through the streets, accosts him with this extraordinary question: "Prithee, friend, is that thy own hare, or a wig?" There is no excusing this, and no resisting it.

And now a fourth with seraph-beauty bright Descends, accosts them, and outshines the light!

When he accosts a lady he puts both ends of his microcosm in motion, by making legs at one end and combing his peruke at the other.

When he salutes a man he lays violent hands upon him, and grips and shakes him like a fit of an ague; and when he accosts a lady he stamps with his foot, like a French fencer, and makes a lunge at her, in which he always misses his aim, too high or too low, and hits her on the nose or chin.

A lady, well known in the fashionable vicinity of Portland-place, always accosts a stranger, with "I think I have seen you somewhere," which often leads to a clue for her finding out the history of the party.

1, Pistol accosts the king with "Che vous la?" according to the first folio.

T'other evening, as father and I were strolling down the lane, there accosts us a poor, shabby fellow, who begged to be father's fool.

But when he accosts you in meadow or grove, His tale is all tenderness, rapture, and love.

When Æneas is sent by Virgil to the shades, he meets Dido the queen of Carthage, whom his perfidy had hurried to the grave; he accosts her with tenderness and excuses; but the lady turns away like Ajax in mute disdain.

Weary of life, he is about to make away with himself, when a stranger accosts him, and promises to transform him into any shape he likes best.

Beneath a straighter sun the line is blurred and sometimes vanishes: no orchid-musk, no azure and distant hill, no tinted bay but accosts the senses, confusing one with another, mingling all the emotions in a single cup, persuading man that he knows good from evil as little as though he lived still in Eden.

H. A hog!Madam!(here he severally accosts the ladies, who by turns repel him).

Who can read the speech with which young Hamlet accosts him without trembling? "Hor.

The language is so simple yet so pictorial that we fancy we can actually see Jacob as he accosts the shepherds at the well to ask after his uncle Laban, and they reply "Behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep."

No wonder that her son declared that her "heart is always harder than a stone," and that Odysseus himself thus accosts her: "Lady, a heart impenetrable beyond the sex of women the dwellers on Olympus gave you.

Who can read the Speech with which young 'Hamlet' accosts him, without trembling?

When I consider the first, I own I am so far a Woman I cannot avoid being delighted with the Thoughts of living great; but then he seems to receive such a Degree of Courage from the Knowledge of what he has, he looks as if he was going to confer an Obligation on me; and the Readiness he accosts me with, makes me jealous I am only hearing a Repetition of the same things he has said to a hundred Women before.

Now the day'syea, the life'shard work is done, he returns home and as he crosses its threshold, he accosts his wife, saying: "Rejoice, my wife, our darling son has proved of service to his lord!"

It can never cheat you, and when the gentleman accosts you with such words as: "Dear friend!

Cupid accosts one of the nymphs: Faire Nimphe, are you strayed from your companie by chaunce, or love you to wander solitarily on purpose?

Her fortune with the modest Daphnis is scarcely better, and she is just lamenting the coldness of men when Alexis enters and forthwith accosts her with his fervent suit.

Robin now accosts him, hoping, since his vengeance is so complete, that he will consent to join his fellows in honouring the spring.

He accosts all topics with an easy audacity.

That oaken strength which I noted whenever he walked or worked, or surveyed wood-lots, the same unhesitating hand with which a field laborer accosts a piece of work which I should shun as a waste of strength, Henry shows in his literary task.

A stranger is fishing by a burn-side one Monday morning, when the parish minister accosts him from the other side of the stream thus:"Good sport?"