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Example sentences for "had met"

  • He took my letter from his pocket, and pointed to that part of it which alluded to his conduct, when we had met in my father's study.

  • I was introduced recently to a gentleman, now living in Washington, who, when he found out my name, said he had met me once before and that it was on this occasion.

  • Miss Garth remembered the dark doubts which had crossed her mind on the day when she and Magdalen had met in the garden.

  • The first three words she saw riveted her attention anew--they were the first words she had met with in the letter which directly referred to George Bartram.

  • They too, proved to be Pit Rivers, and were not less repulsive than those of their tribe we had met before.

  • On his excursion of the day before he had met Mrs. Pomfret, who had held up her hand, and he had protestingly brought the car to a stop.

  • Obstacles, embarrassments, disappointments, he had met early in his life, and he had taken them as they came.

  • He questioned me about what I had seen of Concord, and whom besides Hawthorne I had met, and when I told him only Thoreau, he asked me if I knew the poems of Mr. William Ellery Channing.

  • The great authors I had met were to me the sum of greatness, and if I could not rank their publisher with them by virtue of equal achievement, I handsomely brevetted him worthy of their friendship, and honored him in the visible measure of it.

  • All the while I did him homage as the first author by calling whom I had met.

  • I answered that I had met no one but himself, as yet, but I very much wished to see Emerson and Thoreau.

  • Bolkonski recognized Prince Repnin whom he had met in Petersburg society.

  • But he never thought about her as he had thought of all the young ladies without exception whom he had met in society, nor as he had for a long time, and at one time rapturously, thought about Sonya.

  • He felt that the being before him was quite different from, and better than, anyone he had met before, and above all better than himself.

  • Boris did not appear to notice the constraint the newcomer produced and, with the same pleasant composure and the same veiled look in his eyes with which he had met Rostov, tried to enliven the conversation.

  • After a few words to Pierre about the awful roads from the Polish frontier, about people he had met in Switzerland who knew Pierre, and about M.

  • Although it was the first time that we had met face to face, we embraced each other as if we were old acquaintances.

  • He had met Hugh, as the reader may perhaps remember, and had had some intercourse with the young man, which had not been quite agreeable to him, on the platform of the railway station at Exeter.

  • Now he had met a lady very different from those with whom he had hitherto associated,--but not the less manifestly a lady.

  • She had seen that her mother had met Mr. Glascock almost as though some such meeting had been expected, and had spoken to him almost as though she had expected to have to speak to him.

  • No; I had met him in the street a minute or two before.

  • I felt as we clinched hands in the foggy grimy station that I had met a man and a friend.

  • Stark Munro here proceeds to narrate again how he had met the La Forces, having evidently forgotten that he had already done so in Letter VI.

  • The face haunted me, and I could not think where we had met it.

  • To carry out his intention, he went back to the restaurant where he had met Penurot, and called for ink and paper.

  • Witte, accompanied by Count Lamsdorff, and a full staff of officials and diplomatic assistants, had met at Hampton Court Palace.

  • Ere I had time to realize her purpose, she flung back from me with that wild grace which I had met with in no other woman, turned and ran!

  • This was a sharp and heavy axe, which Nayland Smith, when I had met him in Covent Garden, had brought with him, to the great amazement of Weymouth and myself.

  • That same evening, on leaving the house, he had met her by her door.

  • He was the first rational and human being that he had met in this hell of an invasion.

  • The day before he had met at the administration office a Reservist who was just leaving to join his regiment.

  • This professor seemed to him even worse than the Herr Counsellor and the other Germans that he had met on the steamer.

  • Besides this, we had met at real musical evenings at the conductor Hauptmann's as well as at Mendelssohn's, on which occasion I heard the master take the violin in one of his own quartettes.

  • This, after the reception with which it had met in Dresden, he thought he could secure by the production of Rienzi.

  • This presented greater difficulties than I had met with in writing verse, which came to me fairly easily.

  • Unfortunately, I also wrote to the bad Genoese poet, Ascanio Pogomas, or Giaccomo Passano, whom I had met at Leghorn.

  • The chevalier came to sup with me, and he informed me that on leaving the house he had met a police sergeant, whom he concluded had come to cite the landlady to appear before the Count d'Aglie.

  • Nesle, an officer in the French Guards, who had a pretty wife I had met in the country, went to your brother's to call on me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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