What is "comes across"

Usage examples of "comes across".

In Paris streets, on a March day, he comes across a flower in bloom, a jonquil.

Kerk deals dwa to support his habit and comes across much useful information, which he sells, also to support his habit.

George comes across the water again, and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square, which is a center of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket-courts, fighting-men, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming-houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.

We seem to be able to talk to each other to a limited extent, but wherever the concept behind our thought isn't known or understood by the listening party, nothing comes across.

A gifted individual comes across some old footmark, stumbles on a chain of previous research and inquiry.

Every time she comes across some well-bred or high-up member of society, the sort of person who would, not without reason, regard her as an ignorant Barbarian not worthy of notice, she always seems to end up creating a good impression.

I tell him I can't talk now but if he comes across any of Mursius's missing works of art I'll be interested to hear about it.

Then the good doctor comes across Arnold Armstrong, who was a graceless scamp--de mortuis--what's the rest of it?

What I say in the finished draft is much the same as what I said in the first draft, but it comes across more eloquently.