never meeting

Geometers have usually preferred to define parallel lines by the property of being in the same plane and never meeting.

At this I was an adept, never meeting any one that could excel me.

The ugliest and most gloomy I could find, that I might be sure of never meeting any one.

But never meeting them after 1818, she went from 1821 to her grave, imagining they persisted in thinking evil of her.

We have passed the days when 'Oh no, we never mention him' is the order, and 'never meeting,' and that sort of thing.