Crosse

Examples

• They began to fear that possibly they had fallen upon the wrong crosses, and that the true cross was not with this number at all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Woe to a dog if he crosses the line! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the summer of 1852 the Panama railroad was completed only to the point where it now crosses the Chagres River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From the top of the crosses rise imperial arches, closing under a mound and cross. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On the 23d Hancock's corps was moved to the wooden bridge which spans the North Anna River just west of where the Fredericksburg Railroad crosses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It crosses thirteen states; it is carried on 130,000 poles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On the day when Mr. Hartright crosses that path, he is a lost man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Again and again he crosses and obscures the disc I want always to see clear; ever and anon he renders me to you a mere bore and nuisance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It honours the lips it crosses, and I wish to the gods it may purify them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The sterility of first crosses and of their hybrid progeny has not been acquired through natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The crosses and garlands looked strange, but the hills and woods of this landscape look still stranger. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She had taken a crayon from the tutor's desk, and was drawing little leaves, fragments of pillars, broken crosses, on the margin of the book. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He crosses with her and begs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• As at present existing, the crown of England is a gold circle, adorned with pearls and precious stones, having alternately four Maltese crosses and four fleur-de-lis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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