come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter[obs3]; come in contact.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“We have no enmity against the people,” said they, “if they will but let us pass and respect our property; but we [271] will put to death whoever opposes our flight.”
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

However that may be, it is certain that the problem of fear is the meeting point of many important questions, an enigma whose complete solution would cast a flood of light upon psychic life.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“So much the more reason why we should not delay our march,” returned Heyward; “let us proceed.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The sentence was as follows:- “Prisoner at the bar, you have been accused of the great crime of labouring under pulmonary consumption, and after an impartial trial before a jury of your countrymen, you have been found guilty.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

On the death of an elder brother, Frederick's empire had entirely fallen to pieces, and the young Manfred was left, under papal suzerainty, in nominal possession of the throne of Apulia.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Here and there, also, in that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: “Let us plunder!”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Hal and his sister and brother-in-law listened unwillingly, pitched tent, and overhauled the outfit.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Romans, when they would say their all was at stake, could not express it stronger than by saying they contended pro aris et focis , for religion and their firesides, or, as we express it, for religion and property. 292 Cicero, who was an Academic, gives his opinion according to the manner of the Academics, who looked upon probability, and a resemblance of truth, as the utmost they could arrive at. 293 I.e. , Regulus.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the name of God let us protect them.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

ortal music rolled from earth He was content to claim a lowly part, Yet leaves us purer by the grace and mirth, Human, that cling about the common heart.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

But let us pass on.
— from South America To-day A Study of Conditions, Social, Political and Commercial in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil by Georges Clemenceau

They contain the first recorded words which passed between Christ and Peter since the latter had said, "I know not the man," and the Lord had "turned and looked upon Peter.
— from Memoranda Sacra by J. Rendel (James Rendel) Harris

Rising to their feet behind the long, uncovered pine board mess tables at which they had sat listening and taking notes, the eyes of the colonel's subordinate officers glistened with enthusiasm.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Or, Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Finally the story, like most stories, explains the origin of an animal peculiarity, why tortoises live under prickly tie-tie palms.
— from Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa by Elphinstone Dayrell

He did not begin to draw, that is, for a living, until past forty.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

Let us picture an analytic logician meeting a physical scientist at a moment when the latter is distressed over the unmanageable complexity of his elements.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead