Excited by the struggles of the victim, the sensitive hairs close only the faster, working on the same principle that a vine's tendrils do when they come in contact with a trellis.
But nearly every visitor comes in contact with at least one set of organs.
By this arrangement the tongue must certainly come in contact with one of the sticky discs to which an elongated pollen gland is attached.
Of all his friends La Farge alone owned a mind complex enough to contrast against the commonplaces of American uniformity, and in the process had vastly perplexed most Americans who came in contact with it.
It is the first time I have ever come incontact with crime," he went on with what, in one of his reserved nature, seemed a hardly natural insistence.
He and Sherman are the fittest officers for large commands I have come in contact with.
I never came in contact with him in the war of the Rebellion, nor did he render any very conspicuous service in his high rank.
It also brought them in contact with volunteers, many of whom served in the war of the rebellion afterwards.
I maintain that despotism is the best kind of government for them; so that in the hours in which I come in contact with them I must necessarily be an autocrat.
An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
The Southerners are no more sincere than the Northerners, but they have less reserve, and in the social traits that charm all who come in contact with them, they have an element of immense value in the variety of American life.
He was thus early brought into direct contact with persons of all classes and conditions of life.
Nowhere else in the city could Margaret have come closer in contact with a certain phase of New York life in which women are the chief actors--a phase which may be a transition, and may be only a craze.
This contact may not have been a fruitful one for the elevation of the negro, but it proves that for ages he was in one way or another in contact with a superior civilization.
The thought hurt him, then lost edge, as if it had come in contact with a breastplate.
The boats were passing, and in the usual rush to the barge side his arm came in contact with a soft young shoulder.
But she talked and smiled; and no one could have told that her nerves were crisping as if at contact with a corpse.
A larger nature, drifting without control, in contact with a smaller one, who knows his own mind exactly, will instinctively be irritable, though he may fail to grasp what his friend is after.
From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.
Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.
To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
It was the first time the hand of Franz had come in contact with that of the mysterious individual before him, and unconsciously he shuddered at its touch, for it felt cold and icy as that of a corpse.
You touch them, come in contact with them, speak to them, and they reply to you.
Ah," said Villefort, smiling, "I confess I should like to be warned when one of these beings is in contact with me.
At the outset it brought me in contact withrather a fascinating character, a man whose personality sticks in your memory.
It is rather a discovery, I think, and personally I prefer dining where I am unlikely to come in contact with a lot of people I know.
It is only natural, I suppose, that when a number of persons are brought in contact with a mystery their behavior should tend to become unnatural.
He turned abruptly, the stranger made a similar movement, startled no doubt at being brought in contact with a stranger; and they remained face to face, each with the same thought.
At the springs of Mont Dore he came again in contact with a little world of people, who invariably shunned him with the eager haste that animals display when they scent afar off one of their own species lying dead, and flee away.
I was brought in contact with scholars, men of letters, ex-ministers, and peers of France.
Now and again his neighbor's ostrich feathers or her hair came in contact with Raphael's head, giving him a pleasurable thrill, against which he sternly fought.
Again and again he offended men who were brought into contact with him by his bluntness of speech, and by his disregard of the mere niceties of deportment.
Child as I was, I saw in these humble implements of the petty tradesman the means by which one mind can place itself in contact with many.
The greatest benefit of discipline and above all of contact with equals to a child is in the effect on this phase of egoism, i.
He may of course be seclusive and apt to feel the constraints of contact withothers as wearying and unsatisfactory; he is not easily bored or made restless.
He grew tired, developed a neurasthenic set of symptoms, and thus I first came in contact with him.
And Pandu, that oppressor of foes, like unto a mighty fire whose far-reaching flames were represented by his arrows and splendour by his weapons, began to consume all kings that came in contact with him.
And gifted with great beauty and possessed of every virtue, she of agreeable smiles, owing to contact with fishermen, was for some time of the fishy smell.
Pundit Ram Nath's solid scholarship is known to them that have come in contact with him.
Contact with others is also requisite to enable a man to know himself.
It is only when an impressive nature is placed incontact with an impressionable one, that the alteration in the character becomes recognisable.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contact with" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
