A ray of it gleamed on a corner of the particular tombstone which, being built against her house, slightly encroached upon her window.
About half-way up the ascent they came to a semicircular projection whichencroached somewhat on the footway.
Both the elder and the younger Hartmann encroachedwithout scruple on the crown lands adjoining their estates, whilst Frederick II.
Count Thomas of Savoy (1211), who encroached on Vaud, and seized Moudon.
Orgetorix was sentenced to die by fire, a punishment awarded to all who encroached upon the popular rights.
The Council, however, encroached upon the rights of the people at large, and deprived them of direct influence in the management of affairs.
The strong lights from the veranda encroachedsome way into the gloom, and, here and there, a few people still sat around basket tables, enjoying the evening air.
Lewis the XIVth thought proper to grant a territory of vast extent in that quarter to Secretary Crozat, by which he evidently encroached on lands belonging to the Proprietors of South Carolina.
He said further that they made undesirable acquaintances and thus gave rise to grave scandals, and that they were too greedy of burial and legacy fees and thus encroachedupon the parochial clergy.
But the Spartans gradually encroached upon it, till their country became the premier state of Greece, of which we have one of the earliest indications in the fact that it was to Sparta Crœsus made his appeal for support in 547 B.
It is situated on a long rocky hillock, less than 100 feet above the level of the sea, which was no doubt once an island, before the alluvial deposits from the mountain sides had encroached so far on the domain of Poseidon.
As he approached nearer he could see that the little mountain stream which ran beside the stage road had already slightly encroached upon the road-bed, and that here and there the stage road itself was lost in drifts of standing water.
Thus the inoculation business of the charity, which had begun with being subordinate to the treatment of those sick of the natural smallpox, gradually encroached upon the latter and became paramount.
The Bohemians indeed consented to send their representatives to Vienna, but they left the parliament in 1863, stating that the assembly had encroached on the power which constitutionally belonged to the diet of Prague.
The posts were generally filled by eminent and capable men who had to keep the peace, enforce punishment for breach of the law, and take care that neither country encroached on the boundary of the other.
Farther on rose a wall of concrete with rusty iron framing sticking out of it; and a mound of cut stone and sawed lumber, left as it lay when the frost stopped work, encroached upon the plank sidewalk.
But just as the Duchy encroached on the rights of all the good people of Devon, so was it also encroached upon.
Gradually the peat has encroached upon it, till almost nothing but a puddle remains.
The square of the upper ward, added by this monarch, occupied a space of four hundred and twenty feet, and encroached somewhat upon the middle ward.
From the travelers' account, it seems not unlikely that the negro race is tending to extermination, being daily encroached on and overrun by the superior Arab race.
Thus the merchant and the cotton planter fully appreciate the value of a market when they find their own encroached upon.
The Perran Sands have so encroached that they extend over a mile and a half inland and have in process of time swallowed up two churches and a village.
There were others formerly, now encroachedon or smothered by morass.
Sometimes the gardens were encroached upon, and streets were opened, and building lots laid out and occupied close to the house itself, till only a narrow strip of dusty lawn was left.
The garden had been encroached upon, and the shadows of great chimneys and workshops darkened the lawn.
Recently, western ideas have encroached upon this primitive, sanitary custom, and cots are finding an ever increasing place in the household economy.
They deprived them of their Roman rights of citizenship, of their rights as men, and also encroached upon their freedom in religious practices.
He is said to have managed this by giving information at court that the royal prerogative had been encroached upon by this proposed appeal from the judgment of the sovereign to that of the rabbis.
What did these very Southern colonists themselves do to Spaniards who encroached on their lands?
They are badly off, having for the last ten years been more and more encroached on by white settlers, until now they can keep no cattle, and have little cultivable land left.
Meantime the Indians were warring among themselves, and also retaliating on the white settlers who encroached upon their lands.
These Indians were encroached upon by white settlers, on soil they believed to be their own, and when these encroachments became intolerable, they were compelled in their own estimation to take up arms.
The Prairie plains contract to the north of Illinois and Iowa to a width of about 200 miles, being encroached upon by the forests of the Great Lakes region, but are prolonged northward through Minnesota and the Dakotas far into Canada.
The lake was without definite outlet previous to the cutting of drainage-canals, and is entirely encircled by a dense forest, which has encroached on its border in such a manner as to render its boundaries indefinite.
Time, time," exclaimed his lordship; "he has exhausted time and encroached on eternity.
Sitting long after the usual hour listening to a prosy counsel, Lord Cockburn was commiserated by a friend as they left the Court together with the remark: "Counsel has encroached very much on your time, my lord.
The States remonstrated loudly, and refused submission to the decrees which encroached on their constitutional liberties, and at length arrayed a military force in support of their patriotic opposition.
At last the House had encroached upon the most essential part of the right of petition, the right to have the petition heard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encroached" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
