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came round

vb. (en-simple pastcome round)

Usage examples of "came round".

There were times when his mind would leave him, and when, save an animal outcry when the hour of his meals came round, no word would fall from him.

Sir Alan himself came round on the last evening and shook hands with us all and thanked us, and when he came to me he asked what I was going to do.

And, now I think about it, when she came round on the beach she called you Makri.

And though Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish had planned all the morning how the people were to sit, at the critical moment when the carriages came round they lost their heads, and Miss Lavish got in with Lucy, while Miss Bartlett, with George Emerson and Mr.

After talking for a while about the beautiful epic poem of Queen Leeuven, they came round to discussing the reason behind her wishing to kill me with an axe.

It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the other seamen my first mast-head came round.

Pretty soon they came round again, and one was ahead, as is apt to be the case.

I used to know one who came round every morning to sell molasses candy, offering two sticks for a cent apiece.

We were pulling down stream, and, as we came round the bend, we noticed a couple of men on the bank.

City Watch came round to pay their respects and debts this morning.

Naturally, the conversation came round to the subject of Seymour's interest in Elizabeth.

All this was bad, but she had still more to feel when Friday came round again and brought no Edmund—.

Carys came round to take hold of his arm, smelling the old man smell of him: peppermint, antiseptic, stale tobacco-variant.

This little provision was all the more serviceable to him, as his master, Taylor, becoming unfortunate in business, he was suddenly thrown out of employment, and the little fortune enabled the newly-married pair to hold their heads above water till better days came round.

Presently the rain took off, the fun was to begin in earnest, and the young bloods of Atuona came round the house and called to my fellow-travellers through the interstices of the wall.