Sam didn't want to accost Melanie, but he needed to speak with her. From LearnThat.org.
BTW, the first two definitions of 'accost' from dictionary. com. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
The next person to accost him was Miss Celia Fair. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters] Reference
Presently I ventured to accost her with that fact. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years with the Outcast] Reference
They accost girls who are walking and offer them a "lift.". From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
With these words I accost the prophet, and thus make request. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Usually they would accost the man whom they had thus selected. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
When she is of the exercise, I will also accost and restrain her. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
Therefore the traitor knight, whose name was Sir Fergus, did accost. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
I arose and started to accost him without thinking what I was doing. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Edge up, Alessandro, edge up -- accost, accost!" said Meleagro; but. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Zeke made bold to accost that red-faced and truculent-appearing person. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Nala's splendour and bashfulness would not accost him at all in speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
And, as far as he knew, no one had seen the bearded stranger accost him. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
Suppose she should accost that feverish watcher, should ask him to direct her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He looked around for some one to accost, and felt aggrieved at finding no available victim. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
Even him will I accost fearlessly: Thou art the lord of all animals, and of this forest the king. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
She was amused at seeing him follow her persistently, and at last she permitted him to accost her. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
Incendiary rancor is a pallid description of her accost of her 18-year relationship with Philip Roth. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale Of Exes And Ohs] Reference
He had quite intended to accost a large policeman, who would of course recognize and revere the buttons of. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
I stood amazed; and my heart kindled with marvellous desire to accost him and learn of so strange a fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
So thus you proceed -- you look indignant, and accost the soldier, "Holloa, you fellow -- whose dog's that?". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
They are worried that the 37-year-old Anderson will accost a child again, so they watch him wherever he goes. From Wordnik.com. [The Incorrigibles] Reference
Five-Sisters Court, and stood facing the five old ladies, apparently in some doubt as to which he should accost. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Museum might, were the skeleton of the megatherium suddenly to accost him after the manner peculiar to its kind. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
And even secretly he has returned to his lodging so that none of them might accost him about one thing or another. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
He must be crazy -- to have gone all that distance after a doctor, and then to follow and accost one in the street!. From Wordnik.com. [A Bachelor's Dream] Reference
Barely he knew the cowering form that hid its dreadful punishment; then he springs to accost it in familiar speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
It happened too, that certain persons, men apprised of the secret purposes of the Prince, made it their business to accost. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Making an effort, however, to disguise her emotion, she pretended to accost him with the calm and cordial friendship of former times. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Of all the places that I can think of that someone might want to accost a young woman, a public library seems to be a rather poor choice. From Wordnik.com. [Passing Time] Reference
He hawks with "cartiloni" and "ricordi di Roma" in front of the café terraces, and his street waifs accost the foreigners for a "soldi.". From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
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