On arriving there I found that the General had decided to take a quartette of singers through the North, and hold meetings for a month in important cities, at which meetings he and I were to speak.
Meetings were held in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, and other large cities, and at all of these meetings General Armstrong pleased, together with myself, for help, not for Hampton, but for Tuskegee.
The approach of the train was more and more evident by the preparatory bustle in the station, the rush of porters, the movement of policemen and attendants, and people meeting the train.
The guard's words roused him, and forced him to think of his mother and his approaching meeting with her.
Noun --A social
meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats' crews: the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.
Since the
meeting was thus inevitable, she resolved to see her husband and appeal to his better nature.
(This is permissible at any stage of a Salvation Army meeting.) I was no longer interested in the meeting, and, after an appropriate interval of a couple of minutes or less, started to leave with Louis.
And in stolen half-hours of meeting I came to know all the sweet madness of boy's love and girl's love.
For what purpose was this meeting? What was the occasion of this excited assemblage?
"It is evidently a meeting," said Fix, "and its object must be an exciting one.
It was long since there had been so stormy a meeting. Parties were formed, some accusing Pierre of Illuminism, others supporting him.
At the end of the meeting the Grand Master with irony and ill-will reproved Bezukhov for his vehemence and said it was not love of virtue alone, but also a love of strife that had moved him in the dispute.