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Sentences starting with cross

Cross currents of the strange events of the day flowed through her mind: Peter's arrival and its odd heralding, and the discomfort of Mr. Grainger. [9]
Cross yourselves in the name of all the Saints! [10]
Cross his moods, and he hated you. [9]
Cross over, now, and follow along close under the reef--easy water there--not much current. [5]

Sentences ending with cross

It's about the wool for the Red Cross. [9]
The Emperor's table was laid in one of the lower rooms of the Golden Cross. [10]
What does he want with a cross? [11]
So, brooding, he walked till he came to an underground station, and there took a train to Charing Cross. [11]
There is to us something pathetic in this and in the surprise of the English critic, that there can be any standard of respectable achievement outside of a seven-miles radius turning on Charing Cross. [4]
The eyes of Trafford and McGann swam; Pierre's face was troubled, and strangely enough he made the sign of the cross. [11]
She was physically too amiable, she felt too well corporeally, ever to be quite cross. [8]
Count Ostermann-Tolstoy met the returning hussars, sent for Rostov, thanked him, and said he would report his gallant deed to the Emperor and would recommend him for a St. George's Cross. [2]
I ran through the hall and saw old Louis upstairs with the burning cross. [11]
M'sieu' hasn't stole the cross. [11]

Short sentences using cross

Don't be cross, dear! [2]
Such was his cross. [9]
Take up the cross, Jane. [13]
Oh, Jane, your cross! [13]
I'm not very cross yet. [4]
How will they cross Pomerania? [2]
Why should Barbara be cross? [12]
Celia was cross. [4]

Sentences containing cross two or more times

I know their witnesses say that there are cross currents--that, as one witness says, there were three cross currents and two eddies; so far as mere statement, without experiment, and mingled with mistakes, can go, they have proved. [7]
But the next time the Indian sawed wood for us I taught him to make a cross at the bottom of the voucher--it looked like a cross that had been drunk a year--and then I "witnessed" it and it went through all right. [5]
If you cross the Queen--and you will cross the Queen when you know the truth, as I know it--you will pay a heavy price for refusing Leicester as your friend. [11]
Napoleon merely laid the cross on Lazarev's breast and, dropping his hand, turned toward Alexander as though sure that the cross would adhere there. [2]
By the different style of living I can tell when I cross the line between Connecticut and New York as certainly as when I cross the line between Vermont and Canada. [4]
Out of this place she got the crown of thorns, the nails of the cross, the true Cross itself, and the cross of the penitent thief. [5]
All were conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. [2]
In this act no one spoke save the abased Magdalene, who knelt at the foot of the cross, and on whose hair red drops fell when the Roman soldier pierced the side of the figure on the cross. [11]
Knowing that this judgment had some connection with the land affair, I immediately took a copy of it, which is word for word, letter for letter and cross for cross as follows: Joseph Anderson, vs. Joseph Miller. [7]

More example sentences with the word cross in them

Is it in your mind that we shall cross swords one day? [11]
Some evening, perchance, you happen to be in the dark street outside of Charing Cross station. [9]
When they release you from prison, innocent and acquitted, cross the ocean and set up your tent under the Stars and Stripes. [11]
You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. [2]
She could and would show this, for, like an illumination, words which she had heard the day before in the Golden Cross had flashed into her memory. [10]
He, Berthold Vorchtel, would make no complaint against him, for he knew that Wolff had been forced to cross swords with his Ulrich. [10]
But no; he would crowd up around a point, hugging the shore with affection, and then say: 'The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China-trees; now we cross over. [5]
From thence they would cross the peninsula of Sinai, and strive to reach the Egyptian army by forced marches, and make the king acquainted with Ani's criminal attempts. [10]
Hundreds of Jesuits, with thousands of the populace, had filed behind the cross and the host. [11]
He was cross with the stupid old man (as he called Rostov), who had made him stay by assuring him that some necessary documents had not yet arrived from town, and he was vexed with himself for having stayed. [2]
He was familiar with the rooms of the Golden Cross, and before midnight would have posted the singers and musicians so that his Majesty would first learn through his ears the pleasure which they intended to bestow upon him. [10]
Tomorrow our Emperor will send a St. George's Cross to the bravest of the French Guards. [2]
But never again will I cross this threshold uninvited, or enter a house where right is trodden underfoot, where defenceless innocence is insulted and abandoned to despair. [10]
Upon gaining the wide opening he decided to cross it and follow the left wall till he came to the cattle trail. [13]
The Abbe Rossignol, who had just arrived with the Seigneur, lifted the cross from the insensible man's breast. [11]
He was asked whether Orlando had shown the greater agitation at the Cross Trails or in the town when he threatened Mazarine. [11]
The adjutant asked whether Napoleon wished the troops to cross it? [2]
They would cross where the twelve stones were placed in memory of that great event. [5]
One can laugh when misery and danger are over, and it would be easy to turn this matter into ridicule, but from that hour to this the wooden cross which turned the flood of my feelings then into a saving channel has never left me. [11]
Euphrasia never knew when Hilary was tired, or when he was cold, or hungry, or cross, although she provided for all these emergencies. [9]
And if he were," she added, "do you think, Monsieur, that we should find it easier to cross the gulf between us? [11]
As the inhabitants were forbidden to cross the space dividing the stadium from the Serapeum, all was perfectly still. [10]
The nearer they went to the market-place, which they must cross, the more crowded were the streets. [10]
Going into Cairo, we came near killing a steamboat which paid no attention to our whistle and then tried to cross our bows. [5]
I at least watch your work with interest, and do not dispute your art so long as it does not cross the boundaries of the beautiful, which to me are those of art. [10]
His instinctive action was to pull Pepper down to a walk, scarcely analyzing his motives; then he had time, before reaching the spot where their paths would cross, to consider and characteristically to enjoy the unpropitious elements arrayed against a friendship with Victoria Flint. [9]
But some time was to elapse ere he could execute this praiseworthy intention; for before he could cross the threshold the landlord of The Pike appeared, berated him, and ordered him to be more civil in the performance of his duties. [10]
One of these was running to cross the path of Count Rostopchin's carriage, and the count himself, his coachman, and his dragoons looked with vague horror and curiosity at these released lunatics and especially at the one running toward them. [2]
They have, also--which was far more interesting to me--a piece of the true cross, and some nails, and a part of the crown of thorns. [5]
Her very look was enough to ensure the respect of any vagabond who might cross her path, and if matters came to the worst she would prove as dangerous as a panther. [6]
At last I was driven out in spite of myself, and I arrived at Asquith cross and dusty. [9]
Witness after witness was called by the state, and questioned at length; but the cross questioning was brief. [5]
A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutuzov was awarded the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. [2]
They said it was a dangerous stream to cross, now, because its quicksands were liable to swallow up horses, coach and passengers if an attempt was made to ford it. [5]
Only these: I want the well and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban--and nobody allowed to cross the ground but by my authority. [5]
Iberville, seeing that Walley would not attack, joined Sainte-Helene and Maricourt at the battery, and one of Iberville's shots brought down the admiral's flagstaff, with its cross of St. George. [11]
Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond--Westminster. [5]
He stole the vessels because they were valuable, and the iron cross because he was an infidel! [11]
All this was very well and very comfortable and satisfactory--but now we were to cross a desert in daylight. [5]
Few men had ventured to cross swords with him. [11]
Her father--for Dudley Venner was her father--looked like a man of culture and breeding, but melancholy and with a distracted air, as one whose life had met some fatal cross or blight. [6]
She had a vague sense of trouble, and she feared it might be the little cross, that haunting thing of all these months. [11]
Wherever in the uttermost parts of the globe, a Lynch has penetrated, there has the Mysterious Cross been seen, and those who have seen it have shuddered and said, "It is his mark, he has been here. [5]
He had always used that same consecrated knife; with it he had murdered his long array of Lynches, and with it he had left upon the forehead of each victim a peculiar mark--a cross, deeply incised. [5]
It's luck for us, that cross is. [5]
There, don't let us be cross, old fellow! [2]
He had laid up his yacht and joined the Red Cross and, henceforth, for an indeterminable period, he was to abide amidst the discomforts and dangers of the Western Front, with five days' leave every three months. [9]
Old Louis got up from his bench, and, putting on a coat over his wool jacket, hastened to the doorway, knelt down, made the sign of the cross, and said a prayer. [11]
The folks shut up at Harrod's said it was sure death ter cross the mountains now. [9]
One may rest under the Poultry Cross, where twenty or thirty generations have rested before him. [6]
At first he turned towards the bridge, as though to cross over to Lebanon, but the last word Ingolby had uttered rang in his ears, and he carried him away into the trees towards his own house, the faithful terrier following. [11]
We cross the trails of lurking animals,--paths that heighten our sense of seclusion from the world. [4]
Soft act, faint touch, no meaning did it bear To any save myself, who felt the air Of a new feeling cross my soul's clear sight. [11]
Wolf's first walk took him to the Golden Cross, the lodgings of the Emperor Charles and his court. [10]
He was born too late for the trial of the cross or the stake, or even the jail. [6]
She would go to-night secretly and nail the cross again on the church door, and so stop the chatter of evil tongues. [11]
By rough ways to the stars--Nay what they say to me is: Upward, under the burden of the cross, to bliss here and hereafter--And you too," he added, looking in his darling's face. [10]
When I got to the door"--she paused, trembling, for she saw Charley's reproving eyes upon her--"I saw him with the cross--with the cross raised over Monsieur. [11]
Before I proceed to the body of the subject, I will further remark, that it is not without a considerable degree of apprehension that I venture to cross the track of the gentleman from Coles [Mr. Linder]. [7]
I asked you to speak with me now because I thought that if you would go away--far away-- promising never to cross my father's path, or my path, again, I could get him to withdraw the Sentence. [11]
One is likely to remain in the inmost recesses of his heart an alien, and as a final expression of his feeling to hoist the green flag, or the dragon, or the cross of St. George. [4]
She began mechanically to rearrange her hat and veil; and after that, sitting upright, to watch the cross streets with feverish anticipation, her hands in her lap. [9]
Moses had seemed to lay the utmost stress upon this privilege, and according to the existing law, no one was permitted to cross the narrow fortified frontier on the east without the permission of the government. [10]
It was impossible to get much information about our route into Tennessee, except that we should go by Paint Rock, and cross Paint Mountain. [4]
The order was to find a ford and to cross the river. [2]
Selamlik Pasha said to Fielding that it was hashish; Fielding said it was a cross breed of Soudanese and fellah. [11]
I never thought to cross them, therefore he called me Davy, and his friendliness grew with our journey. [9]
My object was to cross the river softly, skirt the Levis shore, pass the Isle of Orleans, and so steal down the river. [11]
One has only to cross the mountains of New South Wales and descend into the westward-lying regions to find that he has left the choice climate behind him, and found a new one of a quite different character. [5]
A. Campbell desire to cross my lines, in accordance with an understanding claimed to exist with Lieutenant-General Grant, on their way to Washington as peace commissioners. [7]
A cloud seemed to cross his face. [11]
Presently she had to cross a little plot of grass. [11]
Then Papias grew tired and cross and kept asking where Agne was, till at last he began to cry. [10]
At the same time, to prove to his friends how sincerely he desired to please them, he proposed that he and Justinus should immediately cross the Nile to lay his application before the Khaliff's vicar. [10]
It was flood tide when Daniel Quilp sat himself down in the ferry to cross to the opposite shore. [12]
While Rostov was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him to cross the ditch on foot. [2]
In view of this, might it not be safest for us to cross the Occoquan at Coichester, rather than at the village of Occoquan? [7]
In memory of this friendly act, the Lord had marked its beak with the cross, and painted a dark-red spot on its breast, where the bird hall been sprinkled with His Son's blood. [10]
And here, in this desecrated resting-place of the village dead, where the shattered gravestones were mingled with barbed wire, death-dealing fragments of iron, and rusting stick-bombs that had failed to explode, was a wooden cross, on which was rudely written the name of Hans Siebert. [9]
The monks call this apartment the "Chapel of the Invention of the Cross"--a name which is unfortunate, because it leads the ignorant to imagine that a tacit acknowledgment is thus made that the tradition that Helena found the true Cross here is a fiction--an invention. [5]
Rostov was always thinking about that brilliant exploit of his, which to his amazement had gained him the St. George's Cross and even given him a reputation for bravery, and there was something he could not at all understand. [2]
Some simple-minded people think it is possible to cross one river and go beyond it without going all the way to the next, that jurisdiction may be exercised between two rivers without covering all the country between them. [7]
And the last thing he looks at is that which was also the first--the place where the true Cross stood. [5]
On the 29th they set up a cross on Chesapeake Bay, on Cape Henry, and the next day coasted to the Indian town of Kecoughton, now Hampton, where they were kindly entertained. [4]
So soon as they reached Stephanus' cave, both turned their backs on Paulus with conspicuously marked intention; nay the acolyte signed his brow with the cross, as if he thought it necessary to protect himself against evil influences. [10]
What if in these few days while she was to be here he was to cross her path! [11]
They had promised themselves all along that they would cross the Jordan where the Israelites crossed it when they entered Canaan from their long pilgrimage in the desert. [5]
Besides, there was the yard to cross and the outer wall to scale. [11]
But often in the woods we find a place where the road ends in a field or hill, and there the tracks cross and intersect each other, and in this hour I feel that my path has come to an end. [10]
First, there is the wide ring of attraction which draws into itself all that once cross its outer border. [6]
If I deceived the whole world, if I was as the thief upon the cross, I should still be truthful to you. [11]
At sight of the white badge with the red cross on Detricand's coat, the four stood up and answered his greeting with devout respect; and he had speedy assurance that in this inn he was safe from betrayal. [11]
For instance, on the twenty-eighth it is suggested to him to cross to the Kaluga road, but just then an adjutant gallops up from Miloradovich asking whether he is to engage the French or retire. [2]
He can see the Tiber, and the locality of the bridge which Horatius kept "in the brave days of old" when Lars Porsena attempted to cross it with his invading host. [5]
Pouring out into the street the people watched him cross the bridge that led into another parish--and into another world: for from that hour Francois Lagarre was never seen in Pontiac. [11]
You can cross the street dry even without my long garment. [10]
She could see the St. George's Cross flying at the fore of the largest ship. [11]
The cross marks the spot where a celebrated troubadour was waylaid and murdered in the fourteenth century. [5]
She must cross the Slidebrook Valley if possible, and gain the mountain opposite. [4]
The windows of the second story in the Golden Cross, opposite to the Ark, were brilliantly lighted. [10]

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