In one place I came across a poor family who--as I learned upon inquiry--had been dispossessed for non-payment of rent.
At last, walking up Third Avenue I came across a place where there was quite a large display of jackets in the windows.
I came across a "meditation" entitled "My Children," and took it up eagerly.
But this was nigh to the kingdom of my lord's father, and that felon baron I came across again, and he was ever after one of my worst foes.
Another time he came across a bent where on the south side grew vines well fruited, and the grapes a-ripening; and he ate well thereof before he went on his way.
The first message that came back from the entering troops was laconic: "While entering Bapaume we came across a party the whole of which was accounted for.
He came across a German at the entrance and fought with him, but in a friendly kind of way.
We came across a large tributary on the right side of the river.
Many were the handsome wild flowers we came across, principally red and yellow; but to my mind they could bear no comparison with even the ugliest European wild flowers.
Korsunsky from the other side of the room, and seizing the first young lady he came across he began dancing himself.
But the old man bent down every time he came across a mushroom, picked it up and put it in his bosom.
We came across traces of the nomads, however, on this very march.
A little farther on we came across a big shingle-roofed house with outbuildings, set on a neck of land above the narrows, which commands a prospect up and down the river; and there we found entertainment.
We came across one of these on this day's march, in the forks of a growing river.
Our escort left us at the last of the dozen houses which formed the town, and from there on, excepting for one or two turf gamme of pariah hunters, we came across no human dwellings for some time.
At a much later date I came across a letter of mine written to Rosalie in those days, which were full of a tender, almost adoring love for that noble creature.
It was at this time that I came across Mozart's Requiem, which formed the starting-point of my enthusiastic absorption in the works of that master.
In the course of the production, which was proceeding with wonderful accuracy and verve, we came across a difficulty with regard to the principal part for which none of us had been prepared.
I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first question that I came across.
He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came across.
Sinking a hole a few feet in depth and sifting the sand and gravel through a common sieve, hecame across a diamond weighing fifty carats--nearly half an ounce.
As he was wending his course along one of the canyons he came across a spring, and, being both thirsty and tired, after taking a drink sat down to rest.
He was greatly disheartened at his loss, but, putting on his clothes, he came across a ten-pound note which he had concealed in a side pocket.
In the street I came across a policeman on his beat—not the one from Clayton West this time.
Next day we learned from a young man whom we came across at Wild’s theatre how affairs had developed at Haworth the previous night.
Not long ago, I came across a lady who told me of some very interesting happenings of a ghostly nature connected with a house in a suburb of one of the great University towns.
On one of these occasional house-clearings I came across a bundle of old catalogues which I have never had it in me to destroy.
And just here I may be permitted to record how I came across a little poem, in the manuscript of the author, which exactly voices his sentiments--and mine.
The other day I came across a man who was tugging with all his might at the wrong end of a lever.
I wish the picture of the sheep that Giotto was sketching, when Cimabue, one of the greatest painters of his age, came across him, could be produced.
A fly, who was a great lover of sweet things, came across a cup full of molasses.
This was the last really pleasant and agreeable oasis we came across.
He shot two men he came across, then got on to a rock and defied the crowd, but I got a stick and went for him, to prevent his doing more mischief.
Sorab Hormusjee (to whom I am indebted for this story, and who held the appointment of Lady Assistant to the Health Officer), came across a Seedee boy aged eighteen years, whom they declared to be suffering from the plague.
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