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Sentences starting with crossing

Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were unwounded. [2]
Crossing her feet, she threw back her garlanded head and drew a long breath. [10]
Crossing the room he dropped a hand on the man's shoulder. [11]

Sentences ending with crossing

You just ought to have seen him take this boat through Helena crossing. [5]
Pressed to name the exact spot, they could only conjecture, but near enough to be heard on the crossing. [9]
Next day, overtaking the army, he went in a carriage to the Niemen, and, changing into a Polish uniform, he drove to the riverbank in order to select a place for the crossing. [2]
I suppose the river is rising, and I am glad to believe you are crossing. [7]
They'll be fired on at the crossing. [2]
I suppose you know the next crossing? [5]
The leads were going now, in the first crossing. [5]
Then came the distant report of a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. [2]
The grove was bounded on one side by the railroad track, and merged into a thick clump of second growth and alders where there was a diagonal grade crossing. [9]
We reached the bottom, and the long file turned and hurried silently northward, searching for a crossing. [9]

Short sentences using crossing

We was crossing the road. [5]
Lithograph, Napoleon Crossing the Alps. [5]
The men were crossing themselves. [2]

Sentences containing crossing two or more times

In the head of every crossing, and in the foot of every crossing, the government has set up a clear-burning lamp. [5]
All the other links have an inconspicuous look, except the crossing of the Rubicon; but as factors in making me literary they are all of the one size, the crossing of the Rubicon included. [5]
If this can be best accomplished by feints of a general crossing and detached real crossings, take that course; if by an actual general crossing, with feints on other points, adopt that course. [7]

More example sentences with the word crossing in them

Thus: Wrist, if you please.--I was on his right side, but he presented his left wrist, crossing it over the other.--I begin to count, holding watch in left hand. [6]
Probably the coat worked loose in crossing Toe River and the pocket-book had gone down-stream. [4]
And they responded with some swift shocks of recognition crossing their faces. [11]
Even a stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard, insisted on becoming one of the talismans of memory. [6]
Davout's troops, in whose charge were the prisoners, were crossing the Crimean bridge and some were already debouching into the Kaluga road. [2]
One day they were, crossing a great northern lake. [11]
Commands, threats, punishments, were out of the question with her; the mere physical effects of crossing her will betrayed themselves in such changes of expression and manner that it would have been senseless to attempt to govern her in any such way. [6]
One day, as we were crossing a dike between rice swamps spread with delicate green, I saw the white tops of wagons flashing in the sun at the far end of it. [9]
So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden. [2]
Stripped here, as we are here, it will be all we can do to prevent them crossing the Potomac at Harper's Ferry or above. [7]
So then they washed their faces in the river; and just then there was a loud order to stand by for a crossing, and some of them went forward to man the sweeps there, and the rest went aft to handle the after-sweeps. [5]
Besides, the law was that the State should pay half when a crossing was eliminated, and the State could not afford it. [9]
True, my character was not yet steeled sufficiently to resist every temptation, but I no longer need fear the danger of crossing the barrier which Froebel set for men "worthy" in his sense. [10]
But The Crossing was in Daniel Boone's time, in George Rogers Clark's. [9]
The lower river was about bank-full, and if anybody had questioned my ability to run any crossing between Cairo and New Orleans without help or instruction, I should have felt irreparably hurt. [5]
After taking a turn along the Podnovinski Boulevard, Balaga began to rein in, and turning back drew up at the crossing of the old Konyusheny Street. [2]
Sometimes he ventured to hope that he had made a mistake in estimating the direction which the vein should naturally take after crossing the valley and entering the hill. [5]
He absently responded to Arsinoe's affectionate greeting with a few unmeaning words, and before making the important communication he had to disclose to his daughters, he walked up and down before them for some time, puffing out his fat cheeks and crossing his arms. [10]
Far back from this level land lay the dark, limestone hills, which had rambled down from Labrador, and, crossing the River St. Lawrence, stretched away into the English province. [11]
People say that this is costly amusement for him, since in crossing the sea he must sometimes be obliged to drink water from vessels that are more or less public, and thus damage his caste. [5]
I like to think about it, and Uncle Caesar Hollowell crossing the Rubicon in his theological seminary. [4]
In that case, theory suggests that, while the enemy concentrates at that point, advantages can be gained by crossing smaller forces at other points to cut off his lines, destroy his communication, and capture his rear-guards, outposts, etc. [7]
The Austrians let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor. [2]
They were picking their way over the muddy crossing toward him. [9]
The Persians, crossing their hands on their breasts, cast themselves on the earth before the heir to the Egyptian throne. [10]
The captain ordered the watch to man the after sweeps for a crossing, and nobody would go--no more sprained ankles for them, they said. [5]
To pass from the town of Tamarack on the north of the mountain to Rockland on the south was like crossing from Coire to Chiavenna. [6]
I saw crossing the street a middle-aged woman,--a decent body, who looked as if she might have come from the lower level of some not opulent but respectable household. [6]
We hunted for the spring everywhere, traversing the full length of the island (two or three miles), and crossing it twice--climbing ash-hills patiently, and then sliding down the other side in a sitting posture, plowing up smothering volumes of gray dust. [5]
On October 23 the Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. [2]
The crossing of the Rubicon was not the first one, it was hardly even a recent one; I should have to go back ages before Caesar's day to find the first one. [5]
It was about the plainest and simplest crossing in the whole river. [5]
Jasmine was crossing the hallway of the hospital on her way to the dining-room when there came from the doorway of a ward a figure in a nurse's dress. [11]
On each of the gate-posts a crouching lion was outlined dimly against the fainting light, and, by crossing the street, we could see the upper line of a latticed gallery under the low roof. [9]
The Crossing was the first instinctive reaching out of an infant nation which was one day to become a giant. [9]
For the defence, the engineer and fireman both swore that the bell had been rung before the crossing was reached. [9]
X. had seen the crossing since Ealer had, and as the night was particularly drizzly, sullen, and dark, Ealer was considering whether he had not better have X. called to assist in running the place, when the door opened and X. walked in. [5]
It was crossing the country by forced marches, and strewing its way with its own dead men struck down by cholera, and by a heat which reached 135 deg. [5]
When he reached the bridge he saw two unlimbered guns, the infantry crossing the bridge, several overturned carts, and frightened and laughing faces among the troops. [2]
They were crossing the bridge at Stanley Street, now deserted, and by common consent they paused in the middle of it, leaning on the rail. [9]
Late one night the boat was approaching Helena, Arkansas; the water was low, and the crossing above the town in a very blind and tangled condition. [5]
Siebenburg had overtaken the apprentices, but ere crossing the threshold of the house which was now his home he stopped before it. [10]
The engineers reported that the railroad could come in, by taking a little sweep and crossing the stream on a high bridge, but the grades would be steep. [5]
It is said that the London crossing-sweeper's right to his crossing is recognized by the rest of the guild; that they protect him in its possession; that certain choice crossings are valuable property, and are saleable at high figures. [5]
The spy reported that the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in immense force upon Kutuzov's line of communication with the troops that were arriving from Russia. [2]
Everyone assured himself that all would happen according to plan, and therefore insisted that it was just the crossing of the Berezina that destroyed the French army. [2]
At Gibraltar a telegram had come telling of the painful sensation, and the yacht was instantly headed for England; Mrs. Gasgoyne crossing the Continent, Delia preferring to go back with her father--his sympathy was more tender. [11]
In crossing Tower Street he was frightened by the sharp clanging of a great electric car that roared past him, aflame with light. [9]
He raged and stormed so (he was crossing the river at the time) that I judge it made him blind, because he ran over the steering-oar of a trading-scow. [5]
But, if you still unkindly refuse me, or the dread of crossing the barrier of strict decorum forbids you to listen to me here, you can mercifully name another spot. [10]
For instance, as soon as the first crossing, out from St. Louis, was completed, the items would be entered upon the blank, under the appropriate headings, thus-- 'St. [5]
About this time something happened which promised handsomely for me: the pilots decided to sound the crossing at the head of 21. [5]
But I am so rejoiced to learn from your despatch to General Halleck that you begin crossing the river this morning. [7]
And presently a silence fell on the company as they beheld the dejected three crossing the field with a guard. [9]
The peasant drivers, shouting and lashing their horses, kept crossing from side to side. [2]
If the enemy should concentrate his forces at the place you have selected for a crossing, make it a feint and try another place. [7]
For some minutes she stood watching and listening for a favorable moment for crossing the court-yard. [10]
With this purpose she slipped out again, and crossing the road, sat down upon a door-step just opposite. [12]
For when I sent to ask whether I should begin the war with Cyrus, he returned this answer: I should destroy a mighty kingdom by crossing the river Halys. [10]
At last she saw him swiftly crossing the chancel, mounting the pulpit steps, and he towered above her, a dominant figure, his white surplice sharply outlined against the dark stone of the pillar. [9]
Turning from the road, through a lane and crossing a shallow brook, we reached the dwelling of one of the original McGregors, or at least as good as an original. [4]
He dared not risk crossing the open patches to reach the rocks. [13]
When I wasn't riding to the hounds myself I could see them crossing to or from the meet. [11]
In reality the results of the crossing were much less disastrous to the French--in guns and men lost--than Krasnoe had been, as the figures show. [2]
Between the two refusals we enjoyed the most picturesque bit of scenery of the day, at the crossing of Camp Creek, a swift little stream, that swirled round under the ledge of bold rocks before the ford. [4]
He has made rafts or canoes for fishing or crossing over to neighbouring fertile islands. [1]
At length he put on his hat and hurried out, crossing the park-like enclosure in the middle of the street; bowed at by Mr. Dodd, who always seemed to be on hand, and others, and nodding absently in return. [9]
For it has proved for many,--I will not say a _pons asinorum_,--but a very narrow bridge, which it made their heads swim to attempt crossing, and yet they must cross it, or one domain of Emerson's intellect will not be reached. [6]
These feelings entirely possessed her as she knelt on the soft carpet, and she did not notice that another woman was crossing it noiselessly to her comforter's bed-side, with a glance of intelligence at Heliodora. [10]
Finally, in a pause, a man asked, "Have you heard about the fellow that kept a diary crossing the Atlantic? [5]
When Kutuzov came out of the study and with lowered head was crossing the ballroom with his heavy waddling gait, he was arrested by someone's voice saying: "Your Serene Highness! [2]
In crossing from one ridge to another he saw where the horse had made muddy a pool of water. [13]
For I was one of the unavoidable results of the crossing of the Rubicon. [5]
While examining the one crossing the canal, it had fallen in upon him. [10]
Perhaps there was once a time when the stars rushed wildly about in confusion, crossing each other's path, while many a star flew in pieces at the impact. [10]
Twilight was coming on, the train was winding through the mountain passes, crossing and re-crossing a swift little stream whose banks were massed with alder; here and there, on the steep hillsides, blazed the goldenrod.... [9]
On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a silent prayer. [2]
It reminds me of a tale that was told me by a Kentuckian on the train when we were crossing Montana. [5]
We still have nothing of that Richmond newspaper story of Kirby Smith crossing and of Banks losing an arm. [7]
This was shown not so much by the arrangements it made for crossing as by what took place at the bridges. [2]
On this moonlight night in the year 528 B. C. a bark was crossing the almost currentless Canopic mouth of the Nile. [10]
It will be my fourteenth crossing in three years and a half. [5]
Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. [2]
That night, two men on a ferry are crossing the Saskatchewan at Fort Desire. [11]
There seem to me to be many reasons why a crossing at some point should be attempted. [7]
He opened on me after this fashion-- 'How much water did we have in the middle crossing at Hole-in-the-Wall, trip before last? [5]
Official intelligence was made public early yesterday morning that the enemy's iron-clad fleet had attempted to cross the bar and failed, but later in the day it was announced that the gunboats and transports had succeeded in crossing and were at anchor. [7]
This soldier was looking at the cathedral and crossing himself. [2]
On Sunday afternoon, left temporarily to my own devices, I wandered along the cliff, crossing into the adjoining property. [9]
A few minutes later, as Jasmine stood alone at a window looking down into the great stone quadrangle, she saw him crossing toward the servants' quarters. [11]
See her, the lantern between her teeth, Crossing the quivering trap of death. [11]
She could not keep her feet quiet, but she did contrive to keep her arms still by crossing them in front of her, so that they might not betray how excited she was. [10]
Governor Curtin has just telegraphed me: "I have advices that Jackson is crossing the Potomac at Williamsport, and probably the whole rebel army will be drawn from Maryland. [7]
We had little joy that night in thinking of our shallop breaking on the reefs, and we discussed the chances of crossing overland to Louisburg; but we soon gave up that wild dream: this river was the only way. [11]
But she concealed it, and crossing her arms she said resolutely and with dignity: "Go your way--through life with your Ovid, and your gods of love, but do not attempt to crush innocence under the wheels of your chariot. [10]
However--to be exact--there is one place where the serenity lapses for a while; this is while one is crossing the Schnurrtobel Bridge, a frail structure which swings its gossamer frame down through the dizzy air, over a gorge, like a vagrant spider-strand. [5]
It is unpardonable!--Alexander is by this time crossing the lake, perhaps. [10]
I said-- 'Go inside the first snag above the point, outside the next one, start out from the lower end of Higgins's wood-yard, make a square crossing and--' 'That's all right. [5]
All my confidence in that crossing vanished. [5]
Then to bed in luxurious couches, where we slept the sleep of the just and only awoke the next morning (Monday) at eight o'clock, to find ourselves at the crossing of the North Platte, three hundred miles from Omaha--fifteen hours and forty minutes out. [5]

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