Wasn't absent

Usage examples of came.

She did not like to tell the noble canon, and thinking that I was more likely to be acquainted with such emergencies she came up to me and told me all.

An actress named Quinault, who had left the stage and lived close by, came to call, and soon after Madame Favart and the Abbe de Voisenon arrived, followed by Madame Amelin with a handsome lad named Calabre, whom she called her nephew.

I was in the middle of the seventh act, always slower and more pleasant for the actress than the first two or three, when Costa came knocking loudly at my door, calling out that the felucca was ready.

I left Russia with the actress Valville, and I must here tell the reader how I came to make her acquaintance.

The place was filled all day by the devout, who came to adore the Mother of God, whose figure was only interesting by reason of her magnificent breast.

The most enjoyable dinner I had was with Madame de Gergi, who came with the famous adventurer, known by the name of the Count de St.

She rang the bell, and the same woman who had appeared in the evening, and was most likely the secret minister and the confidante of her amorous mysteries, came in.

Chavigni came to dine with me, she asked me if I had had any amorous adventures in Holland.

She soon came down with the pretty boarder, who feebly sustained my part in her amorous ecstacies.

She was very fond of him, and yet had to deny him, for his disease always came on him in moments of amorous excitement.

When she had exhausted her amorous fury she threw herself into a bath, then came back, drank a bottle of Malmsey Madeira, and finally made her brutal lover drink till he fell on to the floor.

While he was answering with much wit some jokes of the count, I kept looking at him with some anxiety, but he came up to me and embraced me warmly.

Just then the marquis came in, saying he would give me my revenge and without answering I went downstairs as if to come back again, but I ran out of the inn, got into my carriage, and drove off, promising a good fee to the postillion if he would put his horses at a gallop.

Zawoiski came in as he was still apologizing, and I left them together.

We came back, and I was astonished to hear her telling her father that the phaeton was mine, and all he had to do was to put in the horses.