53345 examples of meets in sentences

At school, he meets with a boy of the name of Balty Mahu, between whom and himself a degree of rivalry, and subsequently the most decided enmity, existeda circumstance that decided the character of Gurameer's subsequent life.

During a vacation, Gurameer, being on a visit to an uncle in the country, one day, when the family had gone to witness a grand spectacle in honour of an important festival in their calendar, which he could not himself attend consistently with the rules of his caste, was tempted to visit the deserted Zenana, or ladies' apartment, where he accidentally meets with a beautiful young female.

If any sportsman who may drift out this way, is fond of taking the speckled troutlittle fellows, weighing from a quarter of a pound down, the same he meets with in the streams of Vermont, in Massachusetts, in Northern Pennsylvania, and.

But the dogs that one meets in the Canadian woods are of the fiercest breed.

The strangest figure that meets us in the annals of Oriental thought is that of Confucius.

"You're not adventuring much when another meets the bill.

To scrutinize and dissect the character of others is an idle and unprofitable task; and the most skilful anatomist will often be forced to withhold his hand when he unexpectedly meets with something he does not understandsome confirmation of the character of his patient which is not explicable on his theory of human nature.

Thus she, and none but she, the insulting rage Of heretics opposed from age to age: Still when the giant-brood invades her throne, She stoops from heaven, and meets them half way down, And with paternal thunder vindicates her crown.

Frontless, and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian-muck at all he meets.

The hare in pastures or in plains is found, Emblem of human life, who runs the round; And, after all his wandering ways are done, His circle fills, and ends where he begun Just as the setting meets the rising sun.

Such are thy pictures, Kneller: such thy skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy will; Comes out and meets thy pencil in the draught; Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.

Fools, which each man meets in his dish each day, Are yet the great regalios of a play; In which to poets you but just appear, To prize that highest, which cost them so dear: Fops in the town more easily will pass; One story makes a statutable ass: But such in plays must be much thicker sown, Like yolks of eggs, a dozen beat to one.

From each he meets he culls whate'er he can; Legion's his name, a people in a man.

Dulness might thrive in any trade, but this 'Twould recommend to some fat benefice: Dulness, that in a playhouse meets disgrace, Might meet with reverence in its proper place.

"Where more is meant than meets the ear.

They are a fair specimen of most people one meets in the monde l'on s'amuse.

Any dust he meets he deals with on the blotting-paper principle, by rolling in it and absorbing it.

In the hall or apartment where the Academy meets, every thing bears allusion to the name and device: the seats are in the form of a baker's basket; their backs like a shovel for moving of corn; the cushions of grey satin in form of sacks, or wallets; and the branches, where the lights are placed, likewise resemble sacks.

When one meets Sir William Harcourt for the first time in society, perhaps one is first struck by the fact that he is in aspect and bearing a great gentleman of the old school, and then that he is an admirable talker.

His leading characteristic is a dignified austerity of demeanour which repels familiarity and tends to keep conversation on a high level; but each time one meets him there is less formality and less restraint, and the grave courtesy which never fails is soon touched with friendliness and frank good-humour in a singularly attractive fashion.

Incidentally, too, it witnesses that an author occasionally meets with a good wife.

"'Tis unnecessary to ask whether the choice meets with your approval.

" "So on the sea of life, Alas! Man nears man, meets and leaves again.

"When I Lift My Eyebrows This Way" XII Dilly Hires a Cook XIII Billy Meets the Pilgrim XIV A Winter at the Double-Crank XV

He has more money than meets his monetary demand at the existing prices.

53345 examples of  meets  in sentences