Happen upon

Usage examples of encounter.

To Jefferson, Adams had become an embarrassment, and while always pleasant in social encounters, Jefferson had as little as possible to do with him.

As Bollux sat heavily into the acceleration chair, Max extended an adaptor, the one Chewbacca had repaired after the encounter with the slavers.

CAMPING OUT A WILDERNESS ROMANCE WHAT SOME PEOPLE CALL PLEASURE HOW I KILLED A BEAR So many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the bear, it is necessary to make a plain statement of the facts.

Acre there were many Cyprian maidens hidden away upon the ships by knights who had taken a fancy to their lovely faces, and it so befell that two of these ships, encountering a storm, were blown from their course and wrecked upon the Afric shore.

The problem encountered by the Copenhagen and Many-Worlds Interpretations is that the Afshar Experiment has identified a situation in which these popular interpretations of quantum mechanics are inconsistent with the quantum formalism itself.

A simple job of butchery in aftertimes somehow becomes translated into a chivalrous encounter.

New York was appallingly similar to the stonewalling encountered by FBI agents in Phoenix and Minneapolis.

On the banks of the Tanais, the military power of the Huns and the Alani encountered each other with equal valor, but with unequal success.

Severus, ranged ahead and far to the sides to occupy prominent positions along the route and capture any Alemanni scouts they might encounter.

As though this were not enough, I was invited to beard Hassan of Aleppo, the most dreadful being I had ever encountered East or West, in his mysterious stronghold!

Night after night it became a circuit that always ended up at the Rainbow because this was where she had first encountered Alfredo Stevens.

One thing, however, remains constant: these card creatures are just as ornery, just as irrational and chaotic as the other Wonderland inhabitants Alice has already encountered.

Back then, people were still justifiably worried about encountering hostile aliens as CST wormholes were continually opened on new planets farther and farther away from Earth.

In one case of a radicle, which was growing rather slowly, the rootcap, after encountering a rough slip of wood at right angles, was at first slightly flattened transversely: after an interval of 2 h.

When, as in the above cases, radicles encountered an obstacle at right angles to their course, the terminal growing part became curved for a length of between .