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Sentences starting with across

Across the paper was scrawled in pencil, without capital letters, misspelled, and without punctuation: "Unsoundly constructed because resembles an imitation of the French military code and from the Articles of War needlessly deviating. [2]
Across the top was laid a beam, to which the rope was fastened, and a dry-goods box served for the platform. [5]
Across the street the light in Mr. Tiernan's shop was still burning, and through the window she perceived Mr. Tiernan himself tilted back in his chair, his feet on the table, the tip of his nose pointed straight at the ceiling. [9]
Across the gable that fronted the road, and about ten feet above the ground, ran a narrow porch, with a wooden railing; a row of small windows filled with very small panes looked upon the porch. [5]
Across the sill stood a big, rough-looking man with his hands on his hips. [9]
Across the empty space that now shall spread Between us, shall I never go to thee? [11]
Across the sage-flat rose a strange up-flinging of yellow rocks. [13]
Across the street, on a lot that had once held a similar dignified residence, was the yellow brick building of the "Albert Hotel," and next door, on the east, a remodelled house of "apartments" with speaking tubes in the doorway. [9]
Across this space, on a little sloping plateau near him, there crept an animal. [11]
Across one end of this inclosure is a tomb built after the manner of the Moslems. [5]

Sentences ending with across

As for his ways of living, he was the solitariest human being that I ever came across. [6]
It will be time enough to tell them when we do put it across. [9]
At the bridge they all halted, waiting for those in front to get across. [2]
Later he spread the lingam out till its surface was ten miles across. [5]
Never had feeling run higher, never had racial lines been so cut across. [11]
How many navigable rivers did he step across? [9]
We worked our passage most of the way across. [5]
Repetition seems the only method of giving an adequate impression of their numbers; and near what was once the village of Pozieres was the biggest grave of all, a crater fifty feet deep and a hundred feet across. [9]
With only a moment's hesitation she plunged into the lake, and struck obliquely across. [4]
Down in the moist and shady bottom we came upon the log hut of a half-breed trapper, and he agreed to ferry us across. [9]

Short sentences using across

I'm cutting across the prairie. [11]
Look northward across the lake. [10]
Didn't you run across Maria? [9]
Not quite across! [11]
He looked across. [11]

Sentences containing across two or more times

Hundreds saw the two make their way across the veld, across the lead-swept plain; but such things in the hour of battle are commonplaces; they are taken as part of the awful game. [11]
Slowly she walked to the window and looked out across the green grounds where the wind was shaking the wet trees, past the unfinished monument to the Father of her country, and across the broad Potomac to Alexandria in the hazy distance. [9]
Across the record of this day, as across the history of many an Eastern and pagan tyrant, was written: "He would not die alone. [11]
It is rapidly moved across the rasp, or conversely the rasp across the scraper. [1]
Clark's voice could be heard across the waters urging them to pull, while the bows swept across the current. [9]
Notwithstanding the troubles across the river [the speaker pointing southwardly across the Monongahela, and smiling], there is no crisis but an artificial one. [7]
By eight o'clock (the Widow Peasley's household being an early and orderly one) he was swinging across the long hills, cleaving for himself a furrowed path in the untrodden snow, breathing deep as he gazed across the blue spaces from the crests. [9]

More example sentences with the word across in them

I recommend to your favorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. [7]
How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
Now, ma'am, if you was wantin' to make a long an' fast ride across the sage--say to elope--" Lassiter ended there with dry humor, yet behind that was meaning. [13]
As a youth, you took this love across the Alps to Padua and Bologna. [10]
As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
How often when you have tried to get a "rise" out of somebody opposite have you not had your neighbor cut in across you with some private depressing observation to your next neighbor! [4]
If we lead you across the mountains now, his blood will be upon your heads. [9]
Philip had learned yesterday where Alexander was concealed, so he undertook to go across the lake and inform him of what had occurred. [10]
I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more. [5]
Often Mr. Carvel would run across one which seemed to bring some incident to his mind; for he would drop it absently on his desk, his hand seeking his chin, and remain for half an hour lost in thought. [9]
Sometimes this log would lodge, and stay right across our nose, and back the Mississippi up before it; we would have to do a little craw-fishing, then, to get away from the obstruction. [5]
All the railroads would have to abandon their terminals--there'd be no more traffic, and you'd have to walk across the bridge to get a drink. [9]
Or again you would have observed those myriad masses plunging across the veld, still in cohering masses, which shook and broke and scattered, regathering again, as though drawn by a magnet, but leaving stark remnants in their wake. [11]
Some swooned and would have drowned had they not been dragged across the canoe and chafed back to consciousness. [9]
Now a skiff would dart away from one of them, and come fighting its laborious way across the desert of water. [5]
I guess it would be pretty hard to get it across to you, Mrs. Pindar. [9]
When Mr. Isaac Worthington arrived at Mr. Duncan's house, where he was staying, at three o'clock in the morning, he saw to his surprise light from the library windows lying in bars across the lawn under the trees. [9]
The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common. [12]
But into the workshop came the moist, fragrant smell of the acacia and the maple, and a long brown lizard stretched its neck sleepily across the threshold of the door opening into the valley. [11]
Nearly every individual wore the ribbon across his breast. [5]
Down by the wood-pile I comes across my Jack, and says: "What's it all about? [5]
Among these western wooded hills my day-dreams built their fairy palaces, and even now, as I look at them from my library window, across the estuary of the Charles, I find myself in the familiar home of my early visions. [6]
He was a wizened little man with faience-blue eyes, and sat habitually hunched up with his hands folded across his shins. [9]
It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. [5]
Mr. Dwyer's house, with its picture gallery, was across the street. [9]
Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natasha, who, though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. [2]
Or one, perchance, with clouded brain From some unholy banquet reeled, --And since, our devious steps maintain His track across the trodden field. [6]
But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it, spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. [6]
What was gold will still be a rusted gold, but near to the earth-the stubble of the corn now lying in vast garners by the railway lines, awaiting transport east and west and south and across the seas. [11]
She gave a wild whinny of fright, and jumped cornerwise, clear out across the chasm, towards the moving bridge. [11]
They passed, too, wild lakes overhung with primeval trees, where the iris and the waterlily grew among the fallen trunks and the water-fowl called to each other across the blue stretches. [9]
Far across that wide waste began the slow lift of uplands through which Deception Pass cut its tortuous many-canyoned way. [13]
Clemens, on the whole, rather tired of Virginia City and Carson, thought it a good time to go across the mountains to San Francisco. [5]
He leaned his whole massive body across the table. [2]
The tall backwoodsman who had shot him waded across the stream, and in the twinkling of an eye seized the scalp-lock and ran it round with his knife, holding up the bleeding trophy with a shout. [9]
When the doctor who had been called arrived, Carmen was in a heap by the low couch, one arm thrown across the body, and her head buried in the cushion close to his. [4]
The worthy doctor, who had baptized both my mother and father, died suddenly at Carvel Hall the spring following, of a cold contracted while visiting a poor man who dwelt across the river. [9]
In short, those who had apparently done their utmost to oppose democracy at home were most insistent that we should embark upon a war for democracy across the seas. [9]
He began to whittle again, and remarked: "It is only seventeen miles or so across these hills to Far Harbor, old chap, and you can get a train there for Asquith. [9]
It's the little white house across the Common. [9]
A fleet of white clouds, like ships pressed with sail, hurried across the sky as though racing for some determined port; and the shadows they cast along the hillsides accentuated the high brightness of the day, emphasized the vivid and hateful beauty of the landscape. [9]
Once in a while in the evenings, after ten, he would run across me on the porch of the inn, or drift into my rooms. [9]
In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
One is that which regards this world as only a waste and a desert, across the sands of which we are merely fugitives, fleeing from the wrath to come. [4]
After these reflections, which again reminded him of the second appointment and of Ledscha, the sculptor turned away from his work and went to the window to look across at Pelican Island, where she must not await him in vain. [10]
On going up-stairs where Mrs. H. was sitting alone, just as I entered the room she pushed a paper across the table towards me, saying that perhaps it might interest me. [6]
It was only when Shangois was a third of the way across, that he knew the mare's rider. [11]
So one day, when Polly Ann was gone across the ridge, I took down the long rifle from the buckhorns over the hearth, and the hunting knife and powder-horn and pouch beside it, and trudged up the slope to a game trail I discovered. [9]
But just then, when I had hardly any hope of succeeding, the gracious Amescha cpenta sent a youth across my path, who seemed created by Angramainjus himself to suit my plan. [10]
Still another explanation when husbands and sons and brothers come back across the Channel for a few days' leave after long months in the trenches, nothing is too good for them. [9]
We struck out westward or northwestward from Calcutta on an itinerary of a zig-zag sort, which would in the course of time carry us across India to its northwestern corner and the border of Afghanistan. [5]
Away to the west, on the line of the Pacific railroad that led halfway across the state, was another camp. [9]
Very likely they were soiled pencil notes, written to some school sweetheart --to "Becky Thatcher," perhaps--and tossed across at lucky moments, or otherwise, with happy or disastrous results. [5]
Oh, if we were only across that wide, open waste of sage! [13]
The gallant dragoons were off to the west, across a little stream which trickled through the grounds. [9]
The day they were living in stretched behind them half way round the globe, across the Pacific Ocean and America and Europe; the day I was living in stretched in front of me around the other half to meet it. [5]
Mrs. Temple's thoughts were gone across the mountains. [9]
And the birds!--they were everywhere; they swept back and forth across the river constantly, and their jubilant music was never stilled. [5]
She rose and went quietly out into the biting winter night, and stood staring through the trees at the friendly reddened windows of the little cottage across the way with a yearning that passed her understanding. [9]
I know you well, and that wound across your manly face, which adorns it like a purple badge of honor, was made by the sword now hanging at my side. [10]
Ten solidi, full weight, shall be yours if you will take Agatha home with you, or safe across the lake again, and pretend to have saved her from mystics or magicians who have decoyed her to some evil end. [10]
I spent a week there, at that time, in a boarding-house, and had this young fellow for a neighbor across the hall. [5]
In the Hellespont we saw where Leander and Lord Byron swam across, the one to see her upon whom his soul's affections were fixed with a devotion that only death could impair, and the other merely for a flyer, as Jack says. [5]
In his pages we find characters and scenes minutely set forth in elaborate and characteristic detail, which is relieved and heightened in effect by the artistic breadth of light and shade thrown across the broader prospects of history. [6]
Now and then we come across a left-handed man. [6]
But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off Redriff Stairs, with the words "Betsy, of London," painted across her stern. [9]
But before long we came to a barricade fixed across the street, and then to another. [9]
By and by we all retired to our narrow German beds; and when Livy and I finished talking across the room, it was all decided that we would rest 24 hours then pay whatever damages were required, and straightway fly to the south of France. [5]
Austen took his way slowly across the state-house park, threading among the groups between the snow-banks towards the wide facade of the Pelican Hotel. [9]
You made your way past the guards to the senator's coach; you came across the lake, and through the darkness and the drunken rabble in the streets; if I were to lock you in, you would be brave enough to jump out of the window. [10]
We took our way carefully and cautiously across the great Glacier des Bossons, over yawning and terrific crevices and among imposing crags and buttresses of ice which were fringed with icicles of gigantic proportions. [5]
I made my way across the glistening deck to the saloon where, my newspapers and periodicals neglected, I sat all the morning beside a window gazing out at the limited, vignetted zone of waters around the ship. [9]
Away across the water the crags and domes were lit with a ruddy glare, and the firmament above was a reflected hell! [5]
There sat Mahommed watching, a neboot of dom-wood across his knees. [11]
It is badly washed, it is stony, muddy, and great trees have fallen across it which wholly block the way for horses. [4]
When the Lord was writing the laws on the tablets, a flock of wild geese flew across Mt. [10]
In summer it was very pretty, with its vine-shaded veranda across the front; and even in winter, with the inevitable raggedness of deciduous vines, it had an air of refinement, a promise which the cheerful interior more than fulfilled. [4]
But the truth was that many of these pickets on both sides were in no wise unfriendly to each other, and more than once exchanged tobacco and liquor across the stream. [11]
This faithful man was so ill and weak that it was thought he could not recover, yet notwithstanding the stormy weather, the factions on board, and although his home was almost in sight, only twelve miles across the Downs, he refused to quit the ship. [4]
That day I was so hungry for the sight of her that I got my field-glass--used to watch my vessels and rafts making across the bay--and trained it on the window where I knew she sat. [11]
Captain Leonard Helm was sent to take charge of Vincennes, and Captain Montgomery set out across the mountains for Williamsburg with letters praying the governor of Virginia to come to our assistance. [9]
That afternoon Marie was riding across the Winter Valley to her father's plantation at the Pascal River. [11]
At first he was preoccupied, and answered absently across the table the questions of the Englishman and the Austrian about American politics, and talked to the lady of social prominence on his right not at all; nor to Mrs. Pomfret'--who excused him. [9]
Little Miss Dolly was often at the Hall after that happy week we spent together; and her home, Wilmot House, was scarce three miles across wood and field by our plantation roads. [9]
Above him there was now nothing but the sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it. [2]
The petroleum story was not told to me; he told it to Joe Twichell, who ran across him by accident on a sea voyage where I think the two were the only passengers. [5]
And while we was lookin' and tossin' pennies like as to his chances out there, a grey New Zealand mare nips out across the veld stretchin' every string. [11]
Budget after budget was hurried by the winds across the sea. [9]
This Mr. Scarlett was from Connecticut, had been a quartermaster in the army, and at much risk brought ploughs and hardware, and scissors and buttons, and broadcloth and corduroy, across the Alleghanies, and down the Ohio in flatboats. [9]
No pulpit eloquence was ever so moving and so beautiful as this outcast's picture of the first Mormon pilgrimage across the plains, struggling sorrowfully onward to the land of its banishment and marking its desolate way with graves and watering it with tears. [5]
A wicket gate was close at hand, but there was more than one path across the churchyard to which it led, and, uncertain which to take, they came to a stand again. [12]
When the coffee was brought, the door had been shut, and Dicky had drawn the curtain across, Selamlik Pasha said: "What great affair brings us together here, saadat el basha? [11]
Some insupportable coxcomb was boasting a marvellous run with the hounds nigh across Hertfordshire, and Miss Manners brought him up with a round turn and a half hitch by relating one of your exploits, Richard Carvel. [9]
Standing beside him was a proud father who had dragged his son across two counties in a farm wagon, and who was to return on the morrow to enter this event in the family Bible. [9]
It was to warn you, reader, if you should came across those merciless rhymes, to avoid them--avoid them as you would a pestilence. [5]
The night being warm, there was a large screen drawn across the room, for a barrier against the heat of the fire. [12]
There he was, walking across the stage. [10]
And as he walked rapidly across Burton Street he realized with a pang how much his heart had been set on Kate Marcy's redemption. [9]
But as he walked languidly along, some ladies saw him across the street, and seeing, were moved with pity, and pitying, spoke such soft words that he was tempted to accept their invitation and rest awhile beneath their hospitable roof. [6]
They had to walk up four blocks and then half a block across before they came to the indistinctive brownstone house where the Dryfooses lived. [8]

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