Crossed

Examples

• Give my love to your aunt, George dear, and implore her not to curse the viper that has crossed your path and blighted your existence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There had been a man in the room, and he had crossed the lawn coming from the road. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Burnside had moved promptly on the 4th, on receiving word that the Army of the Potomac had safely crossed the Rapidan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Beams crossed the opening down into the main floor where the hay-carts drove in when the hay was hauled in to be pitched up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Such an imagination has crossed me, I own, Emma; and if it never occurred to you before, you may as well take it into consideration now. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But instead, he crossed the lawn and turned toward the box-garden. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I either _could_ not, or _would_ not speak--I am not sure which: partlyI think, my nerves had got wrong, and partly my humour was crossed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But such an idea never crossed Margaret's mind. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• On the 6th Sherman arrived at Grand Gulf and crossed his command that night and the next day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Whereupon Hannibal marched straight through the south of Gaul, and crossed the Alps (218 B.C.) into Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And he took another gentle little pinch of snuff, and lightly crossed his legs. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• We crossed the tram tracks. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Independently of the question of fertility, the offspring of species and of varieties when crossed may be compared in several other respects. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The Deutschland in her eastward trip September 4, 1900, crossed the Atlantic in 5 days 7 hours and 38 minutes, which is the fastest time on record. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Then Adams crossed the Andes, and started a market-report bureau in Buenos Ayres. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Again the surprised expression crossed his face. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Dorothea sank back in her chair when her uncle had left the room, and cast her eyes down meditatively on her crossed hands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Thinking it best not to disturb them by appearing on the stairs, I resolved to defer going down till they had crossed the hall. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The Duke called to him, and he crossed over to shake hands. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The two brothers crossed the road from a dark corner, and identified me with a single gesture. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I crossed the road, and looked at the bill in my turn. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When it was finished the army crossed and marched eight miles beyond to the North Fork that day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Having crossed court and garden, we reached the glass door of the first classe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is unlucky to travel where your path is crossed by a monk, a hare, or a howling dog, until you have eaten your next meal. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They crossed the Bosphorus and captured Nic?a, which Alexius snatched away from them before they could loot it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Rhoda