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Quotes About Encounter

The earl slowly pivoted to face her, the crunching of his boots in the gravel drive loud in the stillness. They stood only a few feet distant. He took a step, his beautiful, heavy-lidded eyes intent on her face.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met.
~ Elizabeth Knox
God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody," he said bitterly. "We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even the odds.
~ Elizabeth Peters
The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed.
~ Elizabeth Peters
God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody. We ought to suply it with a pistol, to even the odds.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Emerson once remarked that if I should encounter a band of Dervishes, five minutes of my nagging would unquestionably inspire even the mildest of them to massacre me....
~ Elizabeth Peters
Now have ado with a man!
~ Ellis Peters
Only I am sure I met no one on the way, because if I had I should have had to master myself, walk like a woman in her senses, even give a greeting. And when you have to, you can.
~ Ellis Peters
If I ever meet him in a dark alley he'll have one hell of a fifteen minutes.
~ Alfred Jarry
They crawled inside and found that the cave was about 12 feet deep, with ample room to shelter them.
~ Alfred Lansing
Susan: ¡fue ayer!, ayer cuando conoció a un peruano en Londres y se casó con él en Lima, ahora se casaba en Londres con un peruano conocido en Lima. Pensar que Juan Lucas estaba en Londres cuando ella salía con Santiago…
~ Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Even the machine has to encounter nature, not even it can escape the earth. There's something reassuring in that.
~ Ali Smith
Does she come to them sooner, for all their rage to find her?
~ Alice Notley
and magpies coming straight from a meeting with misfortune
~ Alice Oswald
Een wilde kat gleed zachtvoetig door de bosjes, een vreemd uitziende kat met een korte krulstaart. Hij bleef staan en staarde naar het meisje, met intense gele ogen, en glipte toen weer door het struikgewas weg. Het meisje kwam overeind en ging staan, haar gezicht straalde bovenaardse verrukking uit.
~ Alison Baird
Het wordt steeds curieuzer! Nou, mijn lieve Alice, wat fijn dat ik je nu eindelijk eens kan ontmoeten. - Al
~ Alison Baird
and said so. Their initial impressions of each other were
~ Alison Lurie
If one day I should hear the hacker's slow, booted step on the stair, perhaps I'll suggest a cup of tea and try to get the story of his life.
~ Alix Kates Shulman
Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.
~ Ally Carter
I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother" he smiled a litte sadly. "well. . . When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her." "Do me a favor" Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. "Next time don't just try
~ Ally Carter
He said he never even saw you, though," Bex said, as if she'd just remembered. Liz came in and added, "Yeah, Cammie, he was really impressed when he heard you'd been out there. Like, really impressed.
~ Ally Carter
These Romans were the bravest that I had ever met.
~ al-Walid, Khalid ibn
Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment...
~ Alyson Noel
A tiger, an alligator, and a redneck walked into my pawnshop.
~ Alyssa Day