Do we say meet or meet up

meet 18466 occurrences

If my journey there was in order to meet my love, I would not have cared.

"We may perhaps meet one day.

On arrival up at Rannoch, however, one thing struck me as jolly strange, and that was that among the people I was asked to meet was one of the very worst blacklegs about town.

The second army of the North was pushed forward, under Porcius, the praetor, to meet and keep in check the advanced troops of Hasdrubal; while the third, the grand army of the North, which was to be under the immediate command of the consul Livius, who had the chief command in all North Italy, advanced more slowly in its support.

The two sons of Hamilcar were now within two hundred miles of each other, and if Rome were to be saved the brothers must never meet alive.

That many would meet the eyes of Scipio in battle who had with their own hands slain Roman praetors, generals, and consuls; many decorated with crowns in reward for having scaled walls and crossed ramparts; many who had traversed the captured camps and cities of the Romans.

"Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

"Prepare to meet thy God," says Amos in the text.

Perhaps he will tell us how to meet our God.

From one of these dreams he was aroused to meet a new and startling fate, by hearing the sudden and violent explosion of a pistol-shot ring out as though in his ears.

When, however, he presented himself before Colonel Belford, it was to meet with a welcome so frigid and an address so reserved that a douche of cold water could not have quenched his verbosity more entirely.

You shall live upon the best, and shall meet plenty of the genteelest company the Colonies can afford.

No, my brother-men, the best way to fight against evil is not to meet it on its own ground with its own weapons.

The only way to meet and overcome the inflowing tide of evil is to roll against it the outflowing river of good.

I don't want to meet the boys just now.

" "Well, when you do meet her you'll see what I mean, or like as not you won't, being a man.

"And I know, Willits, you will be delighted to meet our pastor, Mr. Macnair.

We met old MacTavish coming up from the station (not a single cab down to meet the train, of course!)

"I thought that I might meet her," he confessed ingenuously, "but when she was not in sight, I concluded that I was too late.

Then, if another reason were needed it was probable that if he stayed he would meet Esther's mother.

And thus it comes to pass, that you may commonly ride ten miles, and scarce meet with a Divine that is worth above two spoons and a pepper box, besides his living or spiritual preferments.

Certain it is that we meet with the same vein of peculiar humour, the same turn of thought, the same autophilism (there's a new word for you to bring into the next poem) which we meet with in the other; insomuch that we are ready to make the conclusion in the author's own words:

Departing from the province of Carian, or Caraiam, there is a great desert which continues for two days and a half, without any inhabitants, at the end of which desert there is a large plain, in which great multitudes meet for traffic three days in every week.

Many times have I struggled to climb to their top, but only to meet defeat.

Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up with these requirements.

meet up 26 occurrences

" "But talkin' aside, suppose he was to meet up with Lord Nick?" The smile of Joe Rix was marvelously evil.

Thet's how I hed the damn luck ter meet up with this Sanchez I was a speakin' 'bout.

Well, it was a daring venture, and I hardly think you would have made the game if you hadn't been lucky enough to meet up with that splendid Mr. Coombs.

"When I'm big enough," mused the boy with a quiet savagery, "maybe I'll meet up with Pete Reeve.

I'm aimin' to give him the wallopin' of his life when I meet up with him.

"Glad to death to meet up with you, missie," he grinned evilly through broken, tobacco-stained teeth.

"When I meet up with him, I'll sure enough fill him full o' slugs," he concluded savagely.

Along the way, she chanced to meet up with the Cowardly Lion.

Where'd you meet up with him?" "Over in the hills yonder, just where the north trail comes over the rise.

" "I'll sure keep him in mind if I ever meet up with him," murmured Sinclair.

But do what I've told you to do, and one of these days you'll meet up with me and beat me to the draw and take everything you got as a grudge out on me.

pitch upon, fall upon, light upon, hit upon, stumble upon, pop upon; come across, come onto; meet with, meet up with, fall in with. recognize, realize; verify, make certain of, identify.

"I was aimin' to meet up with him.

And I been wearing it to remind me that I particular want to meet up with that same gent before he gets too old for a gunfight!'" Here Shorty paused and sighed, shaking his bullet-head.

They're not apt to suspect motorcyclists they meet up here with having followed them.

The colored folks would meet up wid one another at preaching same as the white folks.

A few days later I meet up wid a white boy.

I don't know how she and my father happened to meet up.

I thought I'd tell you the story, so if you ever meet up with this shave-tail preacher and he wants a headache pill you can slip him some sugar-coated arsenic.

If we could meet up with the winnin' crowd, down on the La Plata" I didn't have to say no more, for I had a hackamore on Mike's attention right there, and he quit climbin' the "G" string and put up his box.

There's a chill in my bones that tells me I'm going to meet up with him one of these days.

"You went down to the street, all prepared to meet up with poor old Bill" "Prepared to meet him?"

Judge Stone was a much nicer man than the governor to meet up with, butwell, what's the use?

I didn't have no good excuse for goin' back there, sir, an' was sorter afraid to meet up with Miss Natalie.

What you wanta do is insure the cars that's liable to meet up with me in the trail.

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