The small creeks were bordered with cane and when we encountered them it was hard on the girl.
I encountered no Indians, although axes and knives on the ground showed where they had been stationed before retiring.
Breaking camp, we encounteredrich bottom-lands, difficult to traverse because of the rain.
He hadn't the slightest conception of the complexity of civilization, and when he finally came back to it, a mature man of extraordinary native shrewdness, he encountered the twentieth century with the naive simplicity of a savage.
But almost immediately I encountered a courteous officer named Hernandez, to whom I explained that I wished to see General Mercado.
The opponents of Government regulation dwell upon the difficulties to be encountered and the intricate and involved nature of the problem.
On 17th July a party of young men of good family riding out of one of the gates of the city, encountered another like company.
In the basement theyencountered Fiaccio, Lorenzino's faithful body-servant, groom and valet combined, and he was bidden to follow his master.
One might have encountered such a woman swaggering in some ancient street of some ancient city, flaunting the finery given her by a rich and profligate eastern prince.
An American tank encountered an enemy and ceased to report further.
Another Turkish army, formed in Bosnia, had to be encounterednear Šabac in 1806.
Our hussars had encountered the Prussian hussars in the streets, and they were firing on each other.
The nearer we approached the city the more detachments, cannon and baggage we encounteredhastening to Leipzig.
At every step weencountered dismounted cannon, broken caissons, and trees cut down by shot.
I hardly think we should have escaped so well had we encountered a troop of these wild horsemen.
In these narrow lanes I continually encountered crowds of passengers, so that I really felt quite anxious, and wondered how I should find my way through.
The disturbances on Mount Lebanon and the plague were, they assured me, enemies too powerful to be encountered except in cases of the most urgent necessity.
Or perhaps the second adventure of Sir Lancelot, when he encountered the "foul churl" and his giant masters, may have fastened itself upon this locality.
He began the descent, light as a Mercury, his feet scarcely touching the steps that last night had offered so toilsome a progress, and on the third floor he encountered Jean, bearing another tray laden with plates and covered dishes.
The boy encountered the steadfast look, and a little gleam of humor shot into his eyes.
Iuly the Spanish fleet being encountered by the English (as is aforesayd) and lying close together vnder their fighting sailes, with a Southwest winde sailed past Dunkerk, the English ships still following the chase.
With which wordes hee being enflamed, approched foorthwith, encountered the enemie, and did the part of a most valiant Captaine.
The quantity of water encountered during the excavation of the tunnels, measured somewhat roughly, was approximately as follows: At Weehawken 74 gal.
If Tom had never yet fought with a man taught by a prizefighter, so never yet had Kenelm encountered a strength which, but for the lack of that teaching, would have conquered his own.
The young face that encountered Kenelm's dark eye became very flushed, but set and defiant in its expression.
Alex was somewhat disappointed to think that he had not encountered Max in the city, but did not inform his chums how keenly he had watched for him.
The prospect of a storm no longer filled them with alarm, as it used to do at the beginning of the voyage, for they had encountered many storms and weathered them all.
Miles encountered them and in the battle that followed completely routed them.
The savages were encountered on the Molalley and after a sharp fight were dispersed or killed.
Aphis or green plant louse is the most commonly encountered of all the insect pests.
Anhalonium fissuratum, the Living Rock, is an other frequently encountered and very interesting sort.
The latter method, that of growing in boxes, offers two distinct advantages, especially where there is likely to be encountered too high a temperature and consequent dryness in the air.
There was something almost fierce in his manner, something she had never encountered before, something that in spite of her utmost effort made her feel curiously uneasy, even apprehensive.
Moreover, there was no fear in Love, and she--she was sick with fear whenever she encountered that haunting phantom of memory.
Marching through the district from fort to fort, he had encountered no shadow of opposition.
It is not any foolish tatter of legend that I am requiring of you, my boy, but civil information as to what is to be encountered out yonder.
They left him cobbling shoes, and, still ascending, encountered no more bones, for nobody else had climbed so high.
They tell also how Manuel victoriously encountered a rather terrible dragon at La Flèche, and near Orthez had trouble with a Groach, whom he conquered and imprisoned in a leather bottle, but they say that otherwise the journey was uneventful.
This is good hearing, for I have always been one of Raymond Bérenger's enemies, and all such of his friends as I have encountered I have slain.
Well," Manuel considered, "one cannot live forever among dreams, and death and fate must be encountered by all men.
They seem happy and are doubtless having a good time," the girl Ruler said to herself; and then she began to think of the many adventures she herself hadencountered with Dorothy.
Life was a serious thing to Dorothy, and a wonderful thing, too, for she had encountered more strange adventures in her short life than many other girls of her age.
Now, almost any other little girl would have declared that she could not get through so small a door; but Dorothy had already encountered so many fairy adventures that she believed nothing was impossible in the Land of Oz.
Matthew encountered the stationmaster locking up the ticket office preparatory to going home for supper, and asked him if the five-thirty train would soon be along.
Barloff had probably encountered the policeman out on the street, and, carrying out his devilishly inspired plan, had poured his story into the officer's ears, and rushed the other back to the house.
His hand dove into his pocket for his automatic and encountered the brandy flask that had already stood the Wop in such good stead.
In the Gulf-stream we encountered a violent gale of wind, shipped a heavy sea, which swept our deck and washed the cook overboard, and I never saw him again.
Though his birth was Jewish, he encountered little prejudice against his race.
Later he had encounteredhim and Captain Malet-Marsac at Duri.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encountered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
