He ascends the door-steps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Here, you may look in whatsoever direction you please, and your eye encounters scarcely any thing but ruin, ruin, ruin! 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Several sharp encounters occurred at this point. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
Perhaps there was a certain power of suggestion in these encounters. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Johnston's cavalry meanwhile had been well out towards our front, and occasional encounters occurred between it and our outposts. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
True it is that his soldiers, who, save for a few rare melodramatic encounters, saw nothing of him, idolized their Little Corporal. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.