Howard thought he'd stumbled upon a pair of teen-age lovers.
Finally, we came upon a pair of Panamanian robber frogs locked in amplexus — the amphibian version of sex.
Eventually, he came upon a pair of snow monkeys — mother and child, apparently — sitting on a rock in an enclosure.
The girls riffled through the treasure chest near the door -- the $1 bin -- when Ms. Rose happened upon a pair of brightly colored paisley shorts.
And they were, until I stumbled upon a pair of bouncy, spring-loaded shoes designed for running and jumping without offending the joints.
Then Mr. Albee handed over something that would make the opera glasses useful and keep the neighbors from braying about being spied upon: a pair of subscription seats to the Metropolitan Opera.
Ms. Bracco, who had been on "The View" that day, was perusing the "not on sale" shelves when she came upon a pair for her character, Dr. Jennifer Melfi, psychologist to Tony Soprano.
"Waterloo & Trafalgar" takes the names of two of the most famous French defeats in the Napoleonic wars and bestows them upon a pair of squat enemy soldiers in identically oversize tin helmets, squaring off behind their telescopes.
Hold Your Own is built around the story of Tiresias: transformed by Hera into a woman for seven years as punishment after he happens upon a pair of copulating snakes and strikes them apart with a stick, and later called upon by Zeus to settle an argument between the pair over who enjoys sex more, men or women.
And even when Norman was there, things would get strange, like the night in Bequia when we happened upon a pair of locals singing a hypnotic version of the country-and-western duet "Seven Spanish Angels," one singing the Willie Nelson part in a dead-serious bass, the other rapping Ray Charles's lines and thumping the rhythm on a plastic telephone box.
We even happen upon a pair of shockingly beautiful hyacinth macaws, first canoodling on a branch, then bellowing at one another from separate trees.
