give a meeting

The best bits of “Protocol” are when Marshall provides a behind-the-scenes view of the myriad small decisions that combine to give a meeting between heads of state a productive sense of intimacy and authenticity, and the ways in which a misstep can cause debilitating insult to those same leaders, many of whom seem to have egos as fragile as spun sugar.

Says I, My lord, I shall be able to give a better account of this in a day or two: Shall I convey it to my lord, that you are willing to give a meeting?

But on the morrow, when the time grew near, the king's daughter and this hero of arms went to give a meeting to the beast, and they reached the black rock, at the upper end of the loch.

But on the morrow, when the time grew near, the king's daughter and this hero of arms went to give a meeting to the beast, and they reached the black rock at the upper end of the loch.

The first stabs dealt by the new pen were directed against notable residents, and being a good fencer and a good shot—in fact, a sort of bravo—M. Tremplier, the wielder of the pen, proclaimed loudly after every libel that he was ready to maintain what he advanced at the point of the sword, and to give a meeting to all adversaries.