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Meetings 

See Also: BEGINNINGS/ENDINGS; PEOPLE, INTERACTION

  1. Come together as inevitably as the key to the magnet —Hugh Walpole
  2. Converge like pulsars —Diane Ackerman
  3. Face each other [across table] like partners at bridge —Thomas Pynchon
  4. Like driftwood spars, which meet and pass upon the boundless ocean-plain, so on the sea of life, alas, man meets man, meets and quits again —Matthew Arnold
  5. Like mountain streams we meet and part, each living in the other’s heart —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
  6. Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other’s way —Oscar Wilde

    The simile, from The Ballad of Reading Goal, concludes as follows: “But we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.”

  7. Met [briefly] … like a couple of trucks, side-swiping each other —Robert E. Sherwood
  8. Meet like enemy generals, knocking your sabers against the table, bluffing each other —Scott Spencer
  9. There are some meetings in life so useful, so truly wonderful, that they seem like visible interventions of Providence —Ernest Hello


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Maston, and other learned men, held several meetings, at which the shape and composition of the projectile were discussed, also the position and nature of the gun, and the quality and quantity of powder to be used.
I commend set days for petitions; for both it gives the sudtors more certainty for their attendance, and it frees the meetings for matters of estate, that they may hoc agere.
He appeared neither at the meetings of the chapter nor at the services.
 
 
 
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