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  • The way I heard it, Lee didn't actually accost the man.†   (source)
  • The picture's caption read: Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson, wanted for questioning in the Long Island disappearance of his mother two weeks ago, is shown here fleeing from the bus where he accosted several elderly female passengers.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Liddell was no longer accosting the door to her room.†   (source)
  • It appears whoever accosted Susie used this during the crime.†   (source)
  • He could still feel the bump of the tires running over the woman who'd accosted him before he boarded the bus, how the driver didn't even slow down.†   (source)
  • The councillor Ned liked least, the eunuch Varys, accosted him the moment he entered.†   (source)
  • Finally, by accosting strangers for directions (rosy housewives with armloads of flowers, tobacco-stained hippies in wire-rimmed glasses), I retraced my path over canal bridges and back through narrow fairy-lit streets to my hotel, where I immediately changed some dollars at the front desk, went up for a shower in the bathroom which was all curved glass and voluptuous fixtures, hybrid of the Art Nouveau and some icy, pod-based, science fiction future, and fell asleep face down on the…†   (source)
  • Accosting the first person they saw-an American climber named Scott Darsney-they had demanded information about Yasuko.†   (source)
  • How street gangsters rob riders is from Baltasar Soriano Peraza, the caseworker at the Albergue Belen shelter; the Mexican immigration agent Fernando Armento Juan, who accompanies migrants on the bus; and migrants, including Carlos Sandoval, a Salvadoran, who said he had been accosted by gangsters with ice picks.†   (source)
  • Policemen stood by watching Elizabeth being accosted.†   (source)
  • Little regiments of children lurked by the doorways, apparently for the express purpose of accosting foreign missionaries.†   (source)
  • (CHECK ANY THAT APPLY): thirty-three years old. unmarried, preferably celibate. wounded or marked in the hands, feet, or side (crown of thorns extra credit). sacrificing yourself in some way for others (your life is best, and your sacrifice doesn't have to be willing). in some sort of wilderness, tempted there, accosted by the devil.†   (source)
  • She could barely get from one building to another without being accosted.†   (source)
  • Women with children clinging to their skirts would accost passers-by, offering a few cakes for sale on a piece of cardboard.†   (source)
  • …was expiring, while speaking several lines of verse; and I thought it a very melancholy part; but Mr. Kinnear did not agree, for he said it was a wonder anyone could move an inch in romantic landscapes such as those of Scotland, without being accosted by madwomen, who were always jumping in front of arrows and bullets not intended for them, which had the virtue at least of putting an end to their caterwauling and misery; or else they were constantly throwing themselves into the ocean,…†   (source)
  • Not even if you avoid getting lost or accosted in the tangled web of twisting streets and dead end alleys.†   (source)
  • I theoretically accosted her mom.†   (source)
  • Before he took more than a few steps down the muddy lane that led to the town square, a watchman accosted him, thrusting a lantern toward his face.†   (source)
  • Inez was a prostitute who had accosted Dick on the steps of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (the visit was part of a sightseeing tour taken to please Perry).†   (source)
  • Sheepishly he accosted himself.†   (source)
  • This was not so much an organized game, but a spur-of-the-moment sport that took place when we accosted a group of girls our own age and demanded that eachselect the boy she loved.†   (source)
  • An hour later, he accosts her in the midway, drops to his knees, and wraps his arms around her legs.†   (source)
  • But the men, Tareq Ali Bualsafared, a twenty-six-year-old immigrant from the United Arab Emirates, and Saleh Ali, a seventeen-year-old refugee from Iraq, claimed to police that Perkins had accosted them because they were Arab.†   (source)
  • The Power of Context says that the showdown on the subway between Bernie Goetz and those four youths had very little to do, in the end, with the tangled psychological pathology of Goetz, and very little as well to do with the background and poverty of the four youths who accosted him, and everything to do with the message sent by the graffiti on the walls and the disorder at the turnstiles.†   (source)
  • He settled the question of whether or no she should enter into conversation, by accosting her at once brusquely and genially.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless women periodically accosted me: "You're new?†   (source)
  • If you're accosting the customers and running out on your job, obviously something is going on that we need to discuss.†   (source)
  • How could she accost Will like she did, when what she's doing is just as deplorable, if not worse?†   (source)
  • Someone accosts them.†   (source)
  • That vampire who was Lestat's latest child accosted me one evening not long after.†   (source)
  • He recognized Yossarian as the drunk who had accosted him roughly at the officers' club one night before the first mission to Bologna, and he swung his displeasure prudently to Dunbar.†   (source)
  • Then he remembered that she had been accosted by an undercover agent the day before.†   (source)
  • No one accosted me, no sounds came from the dark doorway.†   (source)
  • "I don't go around accosting surgeons on the street, but what I have to tell you is very important.†   (source)
  • It was the home of a distant cousin whose wife, afflicted by "hysterical complaints," accosted Adams with a warning.†   (source)
  • No," Simon said, wondering how many strangers were going to accost him today.†   (source)
  • That no midnight eyes or marbled flesh would ever accost her and turn her into jelly.†   (source)
  • When he found Vainamoinen, the young wizard accosted him.†   (source)
  • It's a strange thing, to have your daughter being publicly accosted by an officer of the law and to know inside that it's completely right and warranted, and yet on top of that having the impulse to shield her from criticism and unhappiness, and feeling, too, the purest, unbending aggression toward the officer.†   (source)
  • During one such visit she was accosted by a Frenchwoman of National Front persuasion who took exception to her hijab.†   (source)
  • A boy accosted him.†   (source)
  • When no one accosted me, I sheathed the swords and walked about like a guest until I found the baron.†   (source)
  • Also, the teacher accosted him on the path, asking that he intervene with the authorities that he be given proper supplies.†   (source)
  • One might well … accost him….†   (source)
  • Before the discussion could get acrimonious, they were accosted by the Shoenbergers and fission rapidly occurred.†   (source)
  • Accosted by Vittorio and half a dozen others, he's charged with the murder of Domenico.†   (source)
  • The solitary beach walker whom I had accosted stood idly by watching us.†   (source)
  • One small fry climbed into a seat only to be accosted by a larger girl who said that he was sitting in her seat.†   (source)
  • He had never in his life been accosted by a policeman.†   (source)
  • When he was accosted in Boston by a politically minded preacher who assailed his views "in a rude and indecent manner, I told him that in consideration of his age I should only remark that he had one lesson yet to 46 eruw-, John F. Kennedy learn—Christian charity."†   (source)
  • As Reich left the booth, a man clothed in an air of inept eagerness accosted him.†   (source)
  • He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much.   (source)
    accosted = approached and spoke in a demanding or inappropriate manner
  • I am here because of Morfin, Morfin and the Muggle he accosted late last night.†   (source)
  • He got out and he knelt and, grinning at Edgar, let the dogs accost him.†   (source)
  • Then Essay and Tinder accosted him together.†   (source)
  • Now, you went about how far into the park before you were first accosted?†   (source)
  • If they should accost us, ser, I beg you, leave them to me.†   (source)
  • He gave no reply in words to her accost, and she went on, with increasing agitation.†   (source)
  • You were into the park about two hundred feet when you were first accosted?†   (source)
  • Accosting Orrin, Nasuada said, "What went wrong?"†   (source)
  • He has gone to ground since you accosted him outside the Three Broomsticks; I rather think he dreads facing me.†   (source)
  • For one thing, on her way to the lane, Laura is gratuitously accosted by a large dog "running by like a shadow" Upon getting to the bottom, she crosses the "broad road" to go into the dismal lane.†   (source)
  • Alderman himself circulated through the crowd at double-speed, tossing gold coins to his guests, accosting them with jewelry, and muttering, "Can you believe all this treasure?†   (source)
  • A few furtive shapes darted into alleys at the sound of hoofbeats on the cobbles, but no one dared accost them.†   (source)
  • He'd cozened the huge north-man into drinking enough wine to kill any three normal men, yet after Roslin had been bedded the Greatjon still managed to snatch the sword of the first man to accost him and break his arm in the snatching.†   (source)
  • Once the sails were furled and the gangplanks extended, Torson and Flint both strode over to theRed Boar and accosted Clovis, demanding to know what was going on.†   (source)
  • Alec and Lana are right ahead of them, moving quickly, passing the thugs who accosted them, a thing that now seems so silly and outrageous it angers Mark all over again.†   (source)
  • It was only, as if one sailor had met a brother sailor, after 25 years absence, and had accosted him, 'How fare you, Jack?'†   (source)
  • Eragon is accosted by Brom, who knows of Saphira's existence and asks to accompany Eragon for reasons of his own.†   (source)
  • And clapping rose for the luminous countenance, the gleaming cheekbones, the winking black eye, as if it were all masterful illusion when in fact it was merely and certainly the face of a vampire, the vampire who had accosted me in the Latin Quarter, that leering, grinning vampire, harshly illuminated by the yellow spot.†   (source)
  • Instantly, a cloying saleswoman accosted him, and by the time he'd managed to extricate himself, the Israeli and his bodyguard had vanished.†   (source)
  • The vye loped off, and Cambrylla continued to accost the imp, who was now looking profoundly uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • Not accosts them.†   (source)
  • The fact she'd sent a soldier to accost me said she thought me worth more trouble than a message through Station's systems, but not enough to send a lieutenant, or approach me herself.†   (source)
  • The voices of the others rose again, affected party voices, as they conferred with one another on the night's kills, describing this or that encounter without a smattering of emotion, challenges to cruelty erupting from time to time like flashes of white lightning: a tall, thin vampire being accosted in one corner for a needless romanticizing of mortal life, a lack of spirit, a refusal to do the most entertaining thing at the moment it was available to him.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Adams came in, he took my hand in both his, and with a hearty squeeze, accosted me in these words, 'How do you do, my dear old friend!†   (source)
  • So, in the manner of helpless creatures who cannot go out in the highway to accost fate, she was standing at the gate when she caught sight of Shade Buckheath approaching.†   (source)
  • Now, there came a point when this individual took you from where you were first accosted into another area of the park.†   (source)
  • Then, somewhat to her surprise, the captain of the shift, a burly man with a crooked nose and the name of Garven, accosted her.†   (source)
  • "Did you notice anything unusual on May eighth, when you were accosted by this person, that you haven't told us about, about his features or scars or marks or anything, facial features, his teeth, fingernails, or his hands or anything?"†   (source)
  • We made our way through the crowd and accosted the young policeman.†   (source)
  • A few days later, after Hoover had had the bonus marchers driven from Washington at the point of bayonets, I accosted him: "What about that revolution you predicted if the bonus marchers were driven out?"†   (source)
  • Although his hands were almost frozen, he did not want to put them in his pockets, for that would have made him feel that he would not have been ready to defend himself were the police to accost him suddenly.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, having completed twice their parade up and down the street from the Square to the post-office, the Misses Christine Ball, Viola Powell, Aline Rollins, and Dorothy Hazzard were accosted outside Wood's Drug Store by Tom French, seventeen, Roy Duncan, nineteen, and Carl Jones, eighteen.†   (source)
  • The bar opened into the lounge too, and that would or should have been the place to accost him and even inquire, except for the fact that he did not use the bar.†   (source)
  • But as he walked ahead, jostled on all sides, accosted now and then, and gradually made his way into less crowded streets, he was thinking it has no importance whether such things have or have not a meaning; all we need consider is the answer given to men's hope.†   (source)
  • I was accosted familiarly.†   (source)
  • They saw him pass, on the roan horse beside his four wagons; it seems that even the ones who had eaten his food and shot his game and even called him 'Sutpen' without the 'Mister', didn't accost him now.†   (source)
  • Swinging briskly and cheerily down the street, full of greetings and glib repartee, he would accost each of the grinning men by a new title, in a rich stammering tenor voice: "Colonel, how are you!†   (source)
  • She seemed as shocked as if some stranger had accosted her.†   (source)
  • When they were crossing Broadway, the usual crowd of children accosted them for alms—†   (source)
  • Kells appeared busy with men outside and did not accost her.†   (source)
  • He walks straight to Higgins, and accosts him with vehement reproach.†   (source)
  • Toward noon a single man ventured out into the road to accost the cowboy.†   (source)
  • The policeman thereupon lay in wait for Jude, and one day accosted him and cautioned him.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, I was half-minded to accost some passer-by and throw myself upon his mercy.†   (source)
  • He went upstairs without a light, and the dim interior of his room accosted him with sad inquiry.†   (source)
  • It requires feeling, repression, thus: 'The usual crowd of children accosted them for alms.'†   (source)
  • He accosted me with trepidation and passed on.†   (source)
  • Out of the midst of them, the ghostly face would rise, and he would accost it again.†   (source)
  • At this moment I am not disposed to accost her.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile her mother had accosted the physician.†   (source)
  • Near the hotel there was always a kind of loafer who accosted travellers, and who would not refuse.†   (source)
  • He accosted them, and they responded very graciously.†   (source)
  • He accosted Fix with a merry smile, as if he had not perceived that gentleman's chagrin.†   (source)
  • Now it was two old men accosting each other.†   (source)
  • Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled upon the mothers.†   (source)
  • Proceed, please—accost the head of the house.†   (source)
  • Turning back I accosted Captain Peleg, inquiring where Captain Ahab was to be found.†   (source)
  • The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer whom he met.†   (source)
  • I don't want to have that girl accost me in the street."†   (source)
  • Next day he was looking out for her, and accosted her the moment she appeared.†   (source)
  • He arose and opened it, and an agreeable voice accosted him with 'How do you do, Mr Clennam?†   (source)
  • If they were resolute to accost her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on.†   (source)
  • A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted some passing artisans: "Come here, you!"†   (source)
  • "In the Court of Miracles," replied a fourth spectre, who had accosted them.†   (source)
  • It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras accosted him.†   (source)
  • Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:— "What's the matter with you, brats?†   (source)
  • Gavroche accosted them calmly:— "Where are we going?"†   (source)
  • Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:— "One hundred francs!"†   (source)
  • After the council broke up he was heard outside accosting this and that deputing chief, and speaking in a loud, gratified tone of the Rajah's property being protected in the Rajah's absence.†   (source)
  • It had decayed in the spring, disintegrating the girls more than they knew, and causing either to accost unfamiliar regions.†   (source)
  • Once, when the command had first come to the field, some perambulating veterans, noting the length of their column, had accosted them thus: "Hey, fellers, what brigade is that?"†   (source)
  • K. was living in a free country, after all, everywhere was at peace, all laws were decent and were upheld, who was it who dared accost him in his own home?†   (source)
  • The first man Tom accosted was a tall, rugged, bronzed Westerner, with a stubby red beard on his lean face.†   (source)
  • As he jumped out of the carriage and was almost on the point of entering the train, Rogojin accosted a young girl standing on the platform and wearing an old-fashioned, but respectable-looking, black cloak and a silk handkerchief over her head.†   (source)
  • If we are to judge of them by him, this relative who has accosted us and who is himself an initiate in those cruel mysteries, then the other guests cannot be so very demoniacal.†   (source)
  • One man I approached—he was, I perceived, a neighbour of mine, though I did not know his name—and accosted.†   (source)
  • But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his respectability by a vigorous side-step.†   (source)
  • At the door Tom dropped back a step and accosted a Sunday-dressed comrade: "Say, Billy, got a yaller ticket?"†   (source)
  • Even when, slightly before six, the greater portion of those who had been thus cheerfully entertained began rising and making their bows and departing (and when he, too, should have been doing the same and thinking of his appointment with Roberta), being accosted by Violet Taylor, who was part of the younger group, and who now began talking of some additional festivities to be held that same evening at the Anthonys', and who added most urgently, "You're coming with us, aren't you?†   (source)
  • When they had come within speech (which was just under the maid's eyes) the older man bowed and accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness.†   (source)
  • He felt that he could not be accosted by his father tonight; that he could not toss again on that miserable bed.†   (source)
  • Complete strangers would accost each other familiarly, just for the sake of easing their minds on the subject: every confounded loafer in the town came in for a harvest of drinks over this affair: you heard of it in the harbour office, at every ship-broker's, at your agent's, from whites, from natives, from half-castes, from the very boatmen squatting half naked on the stone steps as you went up—by Jove!†   (source)
  • When Jeff arrived, Tom accosted him; and "led up" warily to opportunities for remark about Becky, but the giddy lad never could see the bait.†   (source)
  • But for some reason she was unable to explain, when she got to the row of saloons, where lounging, evil-eyed rowdies accosted her, she found she had to disobey him, at least in one particular.†   (source)
  • The old lady who read the Debats was sitting on her chair, in her invariable place, and had just accosted a park-keeper, with a friendly wave of her hands towards him as she exclaimed "What a lovely day!"†   (source)
  • These gentlemen first accost me, and now they sit or stand about in here and let me be hauled up in front of you.†   (source)
  • "Let go of me for God's sake!" called K., who had already been pushed back as far as his wardrobe, "if you accost me when I'm still in bed you can't expect to find me in my evening dress."†   (source)
  • I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.†   (source)
  • He always slouched, locomotively, with his eyes on the ground; and, when accosted or otherwise required to raise them, he looked up in a half-resentful, half-puzzled way, as though the only thought he ever had was, that it was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking.†   (source)
  • 'Five minutes ago Hareton seemed a personification of my youth, not a human being; I felt to him in such a variety of ways, that it would have been impossible to have accosted him rationally.†   (source)
  • A few minutes, though as few as possible, were inevitably consumed; and when her own mistress again, when able to turn and look as she had done before, she found herself accosted by Captain Wentworth, in a reserved yet hurried sort of farewell.†   (source)
  • At length the man was accosted.†   (source)
  • He accosted a farmer of Criquetot, who did not let him finish, and giving him a punch in the pit of the stomach, cried in his face: "Oh, you great rogue!"†   (source)
  • I accost an American sailor, and I inquire why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time; he answers without hesitation that the art of navigation is every day making such rapid progress, that the finest vessel would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a certain number of years.†   (source)
  • And they must not be struck, or roughly accosted; Sandy could not bear to see them treated in ways unbecoming their rank.†   (source)
  • After a little fruitless knocking with his hand, he was standing there with the disagreeable conviction upon him that he had got to get through the night, when a voice accosted him from behind.†   (source)
  • He went then to the queen, and according to custom accosted her with fresh menaces against those who surrounded her.†   (source)
  • As I entered the corridor again, a broad meat-like man, in an apron, accosted me, and jerking his thumb over his shoulder said—"Is that your friend?"†   (source)
  • Meeting Mrs. O'Dowd, whom the Dean's sermons had by no means comforted, and who was walking very disconsolately in the Parc, Rebecca accosted the latter, rather to the surprise of the Major's wife, who was not accustomed to such marks of politeness from Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, and informing her that poor little Mrs. Osborne was in a desperate condition, and almost mad with grief, sent off the good-natured Irishwoman straight to see if she could console her young favourite.†   (source)
  • They all stared at him, but no one made any remark, till a tall old man, with a wrinkled, beardless face, wearing a short sheepskin jacket, came out into the road and accosted him.†   (source)
  • So, he spelt the bill through again, from beginning to end; and then, touching his fur cap in token of humility, accosted the gentleman in the white waistcoat.†   (source)
  • So, he had been quite alone during the four days, and had spoken to no one, when, as he was leaving his work at night, a young man of a very light complexion accosted him in the street.†   (source)
  • The days sped by, and the dark young clergyman labored; he wrote his sermons carefully; he intoned his prayers with a soft, earnest voice; he haunted the streets and accosted the wayfarers; he visited the sick, and knelt beside the dying.†   (source)
  • The Englishman, with the coolness of his nation, addressed him in terms nearly similar to those with which he had accosted the mayor of Marseilles.†   (source)
  • The English, after having cut off the head of one king and expelled another from his throne, were accustomed to accost the successor of those princes upon their knees.†   (source)
  • He was in the full heat and bustle of concluding these operations, when his uncle, Mr Ralph Nickleby, accosted him.†   (source)
  • There was instant pleasure in the sight of them, and still greater pleasure was conveyed in sound—for Mr. Weston immediately accosted her with, "How d'ye do?†   (source)
  • Her resistance had not injured her with the gentleman, and he was thinking of her with some complacency, when thus accosted by Miss Bingley: "I can guess the subject of your reverie."†   (source)
  • When we accosted him, his manner was something more confused, and something less genteel, than of yore.†   (source)
  • After lunch Levin was not in the same place in the string of mowers as before, but stood between the old man who had accosted him jocosely, and now invited him to be his neighbor, and a young peasant, who had only been married in the autumn, and who was mowing this summer for the first time.†   (source)
  • 'And how is Miss Nickleby?' said Sir Mulberry Hawk, accosting Kate, in a low voice—not so low, however, but that it reached the ears of Mrs Wititterly.†   (source)
  • Morrel hesitated for a moment; he feared it would be hypocritical to accost in a friendly manner the man whom he was tacitly opposing, but his oath and the gravity of the circumstances recurred to his memory; he struggled to conceal his emotion and bowed to Franz.†   (source)
  • In consequence of this feeling of repugnance, he was about to pass without speaking to him, but, as he had done the day before, M. Bonacieux accosted him.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Fogg, far from being discouraged, was continuing his search, resolved not to stop if he had to resort to Macao, when he was accosted by a sailor on one of the wharves.†   (source)
  • The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request:— "She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."†   (source)
  • On the Place he was accosted by the blind man, who, having dragged himself as far as Yonville, in the hope of getting the antiphlogistic pomade, was asking every passer-by where the druggist lived.†   (source)
  • Though he be not hedged in with ceremonial respect, his sons at least accost him with confidence; no settled form of speech is appropriated to the mode of addressing him, but they speak to him constantly, and are ready to consult him day by day; the master and the constituted ruler have vanished—the father remains.†   (source)
  • But the very same individual crosses the city to reach a dark counting-house in the centre of traffic, where every one may accost him who pleases.†   (source)
  • They had not long separated, when Miss Bingley came towards her, and with an expression of civil disdain accosted her: "So, Miss Eliza, I hear you are quite delighted with George Wickham!†   (source)
  • And beside him, white with rage or fear, or both, were the scowling features of the man who had accosted him in the inn-yard.†   (source)
  • "Let her see nothing strange—no passion or eagerness—in thy way of accosting her," whispered Hester.†   (source)
  • When they had both accosted it, and spoken many kind words, Little Dorrit turned back one last time with her hand stretched out, saying, 'Good-bye, good John!†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan already fancied himself, so rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination, accosted by a messenger from the young woman, who brought him some billet appointing a meeting, a gold chain, or a diamond.†   (source)
  • I would not accost him yet.†   (source)
  • D'Avrigny accosted the priest.†   (source)
  • If two Englishmen chance to meet at the Antipodes, where they are surrounded by strangers whose language and manners are almost unknown to them, they will first stare at each other with much curiosity and a kind of secret uneasiness; they will then turn away, or, if one accosts the other, they will take care only to converse with a constrained and absent air upon very unimportant subjects.†   (source)
  • Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.†   (source)
  • The conversation proceeded no farther at this time, for the Jew had returned home accompanied by Miss Betsy, and a gentleman whom Oliver had never seen before, but who was accosted by the Dodger as Tom Chitling; and who, having lingered on the stairs to exchange a few gallantries with the lady, now made his appearance.†   (source)
  • When the European population begins to approach the limit of the desert inhabited by a savage tribe, the government of the United States usually dispatches envoys to them, who assemble the Indians in a large plain, and having first eaten and drunk with them, accost them in the following manner: "What have you to do in the land of your fathers?†   (source)
  • What, then, was the shock which Mrs Nickleby received, when, accosting HER in the most unmistakable manner, he replied in a loud and sonourous voice: 'Avaunt!†   (source)
  • Dom Claude started, interrupted himself and, to the great amazement of Charmolue, turned round and beheld his brother Jehan accosting a tall officer at the door of the Gondelaurier mansion.†   (source)
  • Morcerf, usually so stiff and formal, accosted the banker in an affable and smiling manner, and, feeling sure that the overture he was about make would be well received, he did not consider it necessary to adopt any manoeuvres in order to gain his end, but went at once straight to the point.†   (source)
  • He had been accosted in the streets, and respectfully solicited to become a Patriarch for painters and for sculptors; with so much importunity, in sooth, that it would appear to be beyond the Fine Arts to remember the points of a Patriarch, or to invent one.†   (source)
  • The couple, then, although they had not seen each other for eight days, and during that time serious events had taken place in which both were concerned, accosted each other with a degree of preoccupation.†   (source)
  • I have seen in his face a far different expression from that which hardens it now while she is so vivaciously accosting him; but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manoeuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked without pretension, to address him when needful without grimace — and it increased and grew kinder and more genial, and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam.†   (source)
  • Nicholas was standing with his back to the curtain, now contemplating the first scene, which was a Gothic archway, about two feet shorter than Mr Crummles, through which that gentleman was to make his first entrance, and now listening to a couple of people who were cracking nuts in the gallery, wondering whether they made the whole audience, when the manager himself walked familiarly up and accosted him.†   (source)
  • As he mounted the deck, Ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken lingo, the German soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness—his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding by hinting that…†   (source)
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