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Definition
to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone — often by presenting evidence
or:
to challenge someone — often by presenting evidence
- When Anne had finished washing the dinner dishes she suddenly confronted Marilla with the air and expression of one desperately determined to learn the worst.Chapter 8 — Anne's Bringing-up Is Begun (4% in)
- The latter, however, were supplied before Anne reached the main road, for being confronted halfway down the lane with a golden frenzy of wind-stirred buttercups and a glory of wild roses, Anne promptly and liberally garlanded her hat with a heavy wreath of them.Chapter 11 — Anne's Impressions of Sunday-School (39% in)
- With resentful eyes and passion-red cheeks she confronted alike Diana's sympathetic gaze and Charlie Sloane's indignant nods and Josie Pye's malicious smiles.Chapter 15 — A Tempest in the School Teapot (53% in)
There are no more uses of "confront" in Anne Of Green Gables.
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