'Sometimes meets with evil fortune, at other times with good;'
They're a queer lot;--ain't they,--the sort of people one meets about in the world?"
For a wise man only attacks the errors that are in his way; things which he never meets he can scarcely think of as obstructions.
"Divinely led by love's bright flame, To this lone temple's shrine we come; And as yon beacon meets our eye, To dream, perchance, of days gone by."
If the heart were always malleable and the feelings could be controlled, who would permit himself to be tormented by any of the reverses which affection meets?
Mr. Harrison says his pastures are so scorched up that his poor cows can hardly get a bite to eat and he feels guilty of cruelty to animals every time he meets their eyes."
For, as body cannot but communicate its motion by impulse to another body, which it meets with at rest, so the mind can put bodies into motion, or forbear to do so, as it pleases.
When thieves and thugs fall out and fight there's fell arrears to pay; And soon or late sin meets its fate, and so it fell one day That Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike fanged up like dogs at bay.
Each Congress, in ordinary course, meets for the first time about one year after its members are elected by the people, and the influence of politics during the interim needs always to be taken into account.