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Come across

verb

Find unexpectedly. Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike. "She struck a goldmine" , "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

Be perceived in a certain way; make a certain impression.

Come together. Synonyms: encounter, meet, run across, run into, see. "How nice to see you again!"

Communicate the intended meaning or impression. Synonym: come over.

Be received or understood. Synonym: resonate.

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"Come across" Quotes from Famous Books

... clack-clack of castanets, the wailing of hand organs, all the kinds of noise that men with smoothed hair and soft white shirts can dance to, after internal baths with anything but water and preparatory to the return to town for a slashing or boxing fray with the first innocent policeman they come across. ...

— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... go back to camp. We can't spend much time looking for him in the morning. We've got other work to do. I wish I knew just how much that fellow overheard. Queerest thing I ever come across, and I don't like it a ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin

... the same from others," answered Dr. Higdon; "and albeit he has never been a student here, nor come under my care, I have oftentimes come across him, in that he has sung in our chapel, and lent us the use of his tuneful voice in our services of praise. I have noted him many a time, and sometimes have had conversation with him, in the which I have been ...

— For the Faith • Evelyn Everett-Green

... on my travels to escape from shams, and begin to discover that I am a sham par excellence. But I suddenly come across you, as a boy dulled by his syntax and his vulgar fractions suddenly comes across a pleasant poem or a picture-book, and feels his wits brighten up. I owe you much: you have done me a ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... vegetation had also been charted in several other places, for instance, on the east side of the large area known to us as "Syrtis Major." I had, however, been rather surprised not to have come across any comment by our scientists on the significance of this very large increase of fertile land, as, taken in connection with the great canal system, it seemed to me very significant and ...

— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

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