Sentence examples for first accosted from inspiring English sources

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To summarise the plot, barely: our resurrected Belacqua is first accosted by a prostitute called Zabarovna Privet, then the infertile Lord Gall of Wormwood, and finally, as his own headstone, the groundsman/gravedigger Doyle (who, the text tells us, had appeared unnamed in "Draff", the final story in Pricks).

The British artist Stanley Spencer first accosted Zhou Enlai with a rapturous account of his native village of Cookham, and then went on about the delights of a little island in the Thames called Formosa, not realizing the name was shared by his hosts' fiercest international adversary.

Smack on the right wall as I entered, I was first accosted by the self portrait of the artist's shaven head, a tuft of hair remaining like so many thorns awaiting their turn to be sheared, reaching out into my chest to elicit a well of contradictory emotions.

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It shows him first accosting a young man in a subway, Scott Smith James Francoo).

She struggles with disobedient shutters and an angry sunrise and hits upon a biblical line: "Let there be light…" The poems tend to the confrontational and the first to accost me was Thomas Tsalapatis's The Box.

You belong in the Hague!" It's the second time this week Nielsen was publicly accosted by protestors, first by the DC's Democratic Socialists of America on Tuesday while she ate at, of all places, a Mexican restaurant.

She was waiting outside for a ride to her first day in a new job teaching second grade when Mr. Pena accosted her at gunpoint; he led her to a courtyard, where he repeatedly sexually assaulted her, threatening to shoot her in the face if she made any noise or opened her eyes.

When I was pregnant for the first time, I was accosted by women of all ages with all manner of predictions, most of which boiled down to the promise: "Motherhood is bliss".

School officials said he might have been the man who was reported to have accosted a third-grade girl on the staircase last week.

It's not the first time I've been accosted.

He's reportedly accosted the former first daughter in Washington and New York, declaring his love for her.

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