He chose a new and tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters 15 he had sustained.
He bore on a white shield a black bull's head, half defaced by the numerous encounters which he had undergone, and bearing the arrogant motto, Cave, adsum.
Between the warriors of Moselekatse and some Griquas, near the Orange River, several encounters had taken place, the latter being usually the assailants, their object being the capture of cattle, the Matabili being rich in herds.
But I do not think that any club may be called pleasant in which a man is inclined to take off his hat instinctively because of an air of grim formality which heencounters on entering the door.
Of this fact our travellers had ample proofs--having frequently witnessed, while ascending the Napo, encounters between the peccaries and the jaguars.
It was in keen encounters with this wary and learned man that Daniel Webster learned his profession; and this he always acknowledged.
There are now but two or three venerable men among us who remember the keen encounters of these two distinguished lawyers.
Between the celestials and the Asuras, there happened, of yore, frequent encounters for the sovereignty of the three worlds with everything in them.
The encounters one after another, of charioteers, have been here described.
And, indeed, Dhananjaya, in encounters with the mace and the sword and on the chariot as also with the bow, acquired wonderful proficiency.
And the second Pandava, Vrikodara, began to receive continued lessons from Sankarshana (Valarama) in encounterswith the sword and the mace and on the chariot.
The Apaches, too, in their frequent encounters with the regular troops, had acquired a certain knowledge of cavalry tactics.
Private encounters with their enemies, the Navahoes and Arrapahoes, are conducted as tournaments in the days of yore.
Encounters with black bears are much more common, we are informed.
Once drawn in and under way, he will march blindly on, borne along by his own involuntary inspiration and crushing with his mass all that he encounters on his path.
At certain moments, the Colonel felt doubtful on listening to the way in which his rival formulated amazing heresies, revealing absolute ignorance of the great authorities who have codified the laws of encounters between gentlemen.
Others were made by knives, by clubbings from gun stocks, by flying stones, and even by the teeth of the Germans in night encounters and surprise attacks, in which men fought as they did in the infancy of human life on this planet.
Indeed, he had seen more than a hundred duels; but in plays on the stage, between actors, who draw out the preliminaries of the encounters with ceremonious deliberation, in order to prolong the suspense of the audience.
After successful encounterswith Jacob's cavalry and a troop of Wolford's cavalry, the adventurers pushed on, reaching the stockade at Green River Bridge on July 4.
The raiders seemed environed by enemies, and sharpencounters began.
He, on his way back, encounters the sea-nymphs, who explain they were once his ships and bid him hasten and rescue his son.
Ere long Aucassin encounters an old charcoal-burner, to whom he confides his loss, and who assures him such a sorrow is nothing compared to his own.
Meantime Orlando, still searching for Angelica, encounters a sorceress who gives him a magic draught which causes him to forget the past, and detains him a captive in the island of Dragontine.
He soon encounters a maiden with dishevelled locks and torn garments, who delays him by informing him that she has been illtreated by a knight bearing the device of a red cross.
Skirting the trunks of mighty trees, stealing beneath whispering pines, White Aster threads different parts of the solitude, where she encounters deer and other timid game, seeking some trace of her father.
True to her prediction, he encounters many dangers on the homeward journey, and finds his house reduced to ashes and his parents gone!
In theseencounters Arthur wore the peerless armor made by Merlin, and sometimes carried a shield so brilliant that it blinded all who gazed upon it.
We've had many encounters with him," replied the youth.
Encounters between the flankers and small bands still occurred, but there was yet no sign of serious resistance, and the fort was drawing nearer and nearer.
The attempt, however, to establish republics there encounters many obstacles, most of which may be supposed to result from long-indulged habits of colonial supineness and dependence upon European monarchical powers.
With the exception of encounters with the enemy at Guayama, Hormigueros, Coamo, and Yauco and an attack on a force landed at Cape San Juan, there was no serious resistance.
Their system of warfare partook of the semi-savage and partisan predatory character, and many fierce and desperate encounters took place between them and the outlawed hordes of desperadoes in the pay of the British.
I believe it to be a fact that the tories did get the worst of most of the encountersin which they had an equal number of our men to deal with.
If it accidentally encounters a rattler or moccasin, it kills, and perhaps eats it; but it does the same with any other serpent.
Operations would not always culminate in a great Cavalry engagement, but a skilful conduct of the manoeuvres in practical country would generally insure such encounters without too great a charge for agricultural compensation.
Then the words just spoken to him at the door came back to puzzle and set him thinking of several other encounters--or fancied encounters with people whom he felt that he had never seen before.
I suspected her son, who, I had been told, was extremely violent and had had several encounters with the police, but I could not believe that old Mariette had had anything to do with the crime.
Although our puppy had several times returned with a scratched face, afterencounters with veteran cats, his first fight was with Major, a rugged brindle bull, who lorded it over all the dogs in town.
If the orbit of such a comet, or in fact of any comet, chances to intersect that of the earth, the latter in passing the point of intersection encounters minute particles which cause a meteoric shower.
We know that minute meteoric particles are flying through our system in such numbers that the earthencounters several millions of them every day, which appear to us in the familiar phenomena of shooting-stars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encounters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
