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A knot of electricians and others were chatting in subdued tones about the one subject that filled the minds of all in the ship. "What! unable to sleep, like the rest of us?" said Ebenezer Smith, accosting Robin as he reached the deck.
'So we're sold after all, Sue, said he to his wife, accosting her with a kiss as soon as he entered his house. He did not call his wife Sue above twice or thrice in a year, and these occasions were great high days. 'Eleanor has had more sense then we gave her credit for, said Mrs Grantly.
She wandered from room to room, forgetting her reserve, and accosting every soul she met for later news, for information which, received, did but torture her with more intolerable pangs, and send her to her knees; though, kneeling, she could not pray, only cry out in some dumb, inarticulate fashion, "God be merciful!"
We may conceive Mr. Worldly Wiseman accosting such an one, and the conversation that should thereupon ensue: "How now, young fellow, what dost thou here?" "Truly, sir, I take mine ease." "Nay, but thus also I follow after Learning, by your leave." "Learning, quotha! After what fashion, I pray thee? Is it mathematics?" "No, to be sure." "Is it metaphysics?" "Nor that." "Is it some language?"
Well, I just get some pieces of bark, and put them down on the ground, and then I lean back against the tree-trunk, and the dew doesn't bother me at all. Of course, the main thing is to keep dry." "Sir," said Miss Lady, almost for the first time accosting him, "do you mean to say that you sit up and do not lie down to sleep at all during the whole night? Why, you would be wretched.
The few people whom they passed in the darkness paid no particular heed to them. They might have been a couple of khaki-clad boys in America for all the curiosity they excited. At the railroad station an army officer glared at them when they saluted and seemed on the point of accosting them, which gave them a momentary scare. "We'd better be careful," said Tom.
The drummers had finished their dealings with the proprietor, and they were gossiping together in a knot by the door as the Virginian passed out. "See you later, old man!" This was the American drummer accosting his prospective bed-fellow. "Oh, yes," returned the bed-fellow, and was gone. The American drummer winked triumphantly at his brethren.
"They'll throw me out if they think I'm accosting you." How was it that, a moment ago, she had appeared to him mysterious, inviting? At this range he could only see the paint on her cheeks, the shadows under her burning eyes, the shabby finery of her gown. Her wonderful bronze hair only made the contrast more pitiful.
Not only does he draw his saber, but he uses it; among the petitioners, a boatman, whom he is about to strike, runs off as fast as he can; he draws General Moulins into the recess of a window and gives him a cut. People "tremble" on accosting him, and yet more in contradicting him.
Yet in the haste with which he made towards her he found time to reflect, that, in order to secure an opportunity of conversing with her in private, he must not alarm her at first accosting her.
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