The commons considered these proceedings asencroaching on their privileges.
They considered them as encroaching schismatics that disgraced and endangered the hierarchy; and those of their own communion, who recommended moderation, they branded with the epithets of lukewarm christians, betrayers, and apostates.
German megalomania finds expression in the seven thousand speeches and in the three hundred uniforms of the Kaiser.
Encroaching upon functions of subordinates prohibited; orders to be definite.
Even then many of the big outfits were being cut up into farms, public range-land had virtually ceased to exist, and one by one the cattlemen were driven westward before the slowly encroaching wave of civilization.
The apothecary was immediately summoned; and, being either puzzled by the symptoms, or afraid of encroaching upon the province of his superiors, advised the old lady to send for Doctor Fathom without delay.
I am therefore convinced that the prince who, in presence of an encroaching democracy, should endeavor to impair the judicial authority in his dominions, and to diminish the political influence of lawyers, would commit a great mistake.
Islam has neither intention nor design of encroaching upon the spiritual preserves of Christendom.
The base of each ray is rich red-brown, the colour encroaching on the disk with two points, and running down the medial line of the ray.
Perhaps like the cane over the looking-glass in a nursery, its mere presence is sufficient to keep in awe encroaching enemies, whose hearts sink when they behold the sharp-toothed weapon.
And with it the gray-gloomed giant of Wade's mind, the morbid and brooding spell, had gained its long-encroaching ascendancy.
He would have shut out the encroaching thoughts of self, of others, of life, had that been wholly possible.
Wade was now in passionate strife with the encroachingmood that was a mocker of his idealism.
And the dark line of red slowly rose, encroaching upon the bright crimson.
Then he would drive away the encroaching gloom, trusting that a little time would dispel it.
Joncaire had gained over most of the Senecas, Piquet was drawing the Onondagas more and more to his mission, and the Dutch of Albany were alienating their best friends, the Mohawks, by encroaching on their lands.
The trouble was to see just where to put the house without encroachingupon profitable land.
Nor, as the sequel shows, was the measure efficient as a check upon the personal ambition of encroachingparty leaders.
Then he laid a similar sentence on those of the king's courtiers whom he accused of encroaching on the estates of the see of Canterbury.
Scoriaceous lava encroaching upon the tracks of the Vesuvian railway (after a photograph by Sommer).
In consequence, the waters are encroaching upon these shores, and rivers which there enter the lake are drowned at their mouths, with the formation of estuaries.
An old road along the shore has had to be abandoned because of the encroaching water.
If the Arabs were ten miles away the day before, he concluded that it would probably take them the whole day to reach this point, the forest being dense, and the path obstructed in many places by the encroaching bush.
Protected from external assault by the stakes, they had faced inwards at his order, and taken the encroaching Arabs in flank.
The crew had evidently performed this journey before, for they dexterously skirted the shallows, and appeared to know exactly where to pull to avoid the encroaching reeds.
At last Rose got up from her crouching position by the fire and stood, a white ghost of herself, pushing back the bright encroachinghair from eyes that were dry and feverish.
All the doors leading from room to room had been taken off; the old worm-eaten boards had been roughly stained; a few old French engravings had been hung here and there where the encroaching books left an opening; but otherwise all was bare.
But we couldn't forgive the skyscrapers encroaching on our supply of sunshine, and we really needed more room, and so we said good-by to our beloved old house and moved into a new one.
Usually, side openings are placed much too near the trim of a door or window, so that no self-respecting bracket can be placed in the space without encroaching on the molding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encroaching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
