My daughter is to be married in London, and the earl has cabled me to come across.
I heard afterwards that one of their most prominent members did happen to come across it, but, with a scepticism which I cannot but think was somewhat wanting in discernment, rejected it as a palpable imposition.
So he is alive and well now, at Melbourne, but when he came to know about the Curse, he was too much frightened to come across, and he asked me to call and make his excuses.
She would rhyme moon to table,’ used to be said of her in jest; and certainly no more monstrous rhymes are to be found in all literature than some of those we come across in Mrs. Browning’s poems.
Folk-lore is so often treated nowadays merely from the point of view of the comparative mythologist, that it is really delightful to come across a book that deals with the subject simply as literature.
It is delightful to come across a collection of purely imaginative work, and Mr. Yeats has a very quick instinct in finding out the best and the most beautiful things in Irish folklore.
At last he had found it, and just in the very sort of house and town where he had always expected tocome across it.
Whether he obtained a copy in the end history does not relate; but if our book-hunter is ever so fortunate as to come across one, like Vaughan he will certainly 'no less exteme it then a Jewell.
Will my Lord uncouple at random and hunt the first animal that we come across?
We're not exactly short of food, but a little extra would be very useful, and as rattlers are so plentiful it seems almost a pity that we can't make them good to eat, and knock over all we come across.
Indians are not such idiots as to come across a place like this.
I rather took to this work; there was a kind of excitement about it, as you never quite knew whom you were likely to come across, or what was likely to happen before you got home.
Royd happened to come across him, and taking a fancy to him, brought him up country to look after a flock of sheep.
They could gallop like the wind, and go faster over the rough ground than we could, and we were obliged to try and run them up to the manga, or stone enclosure, just as we happened most easily to come across them.
These latter were often difficult to come across, and to run them up into the stone enclosure, or "manga," near the house was no easy matter.
You wait and see what'll happen to you if you don't come across!
Nor could I come across anybody at all who knew anything of them in seafaring circles thereabouts.
Yet it was clear that two men had come across it to that point, had then descended the cliff to the sand, walked a few yards along the beach, and then--one had murdered the other.
Only--I've a pretty good idea of who it is that we've come across!
Why, you remember, I rush over to America for scarcely a week's stay, and there I come across a man who has disappeared astonishingly from the ken of all his friends!
No, I haven't come across any of his friends, but I happened to hear not long ago that he was on intimate terms with some journalists.
Tell me his name, and although it is Sunday--ah just let me come across him!
I am stupid enough; but I always know, when I come across a stronger mind.
Another worrying habit he had, too, that of apparently not distinguishing between them and any tramps or strangers who might happen along and come across him.
Here and there I come across a wee mound on the moorland, or maybe by the roadside, and I ken it covers the body o' some brave man wha has died for his faith.
He'll come across if there's a boat to be had, and now ye look as if ye needed lunch.
We're sure to come across a few Siwash somewhere in the neighbourhood.
She called me up at the office and asked me to come across at once.
That's what I heard you say; but it ain't any proof we'll come across him.
Come across," said Slavin sternly, "fwhere did ye get ut?
Young Blake wrote to his father that he'd come across a man whom he could almost swear to as being one of the three convicts who'd broken out of Barmsworth some years back.
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