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preposition

Across prep. From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.

To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally.

To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

adverb

Across adv.

From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. (Obs.) "The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Across" Quotes from Famous Books

... troops came ashore they cast aside their heavy packs and followed their comrades across the forty feet of open beach and into the scrub that covered the side of the cliffs. Halfway up the Turks had prepared a second position. Attacking it in open formation the Third Brigade succeeded in clearing it within fifteen minutes of the time they came ashore, despite the desperate ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... Father Letheby across the table in the lamplight, and saw his drawn, sallow cheeks and sunken eyes, and the white patch of hair over his ears, I could not help saying to myself: "You, too, have got your ...

— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... but cautiously round by a back way, Henry approached the hut. Strange and conflicting feelings filled his breast. A blush of deep shame and self-abhorrence mantled on his cheek when it flashed across him that he was about to play the spy on his own mother. But there was ...

— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne

... this sensible advice, and they brought the ready animals down to a moderate trot. It was now a little past midnight, and not a soul was to be seen on the road. A light breeze blew softly from the south, shaking the tiny forest leaves and blowing across the fields to welcome the coming footsteps ...

— The Kentucky Ranger • Edward T. Curnick

... the nursery that is to be felt throughout du Maurier's art in this vein. And how well he knows the emotions of childhood. For instance, the large drawing "Farewell to Fair Normandy" (October 2, 1880), extending across two full pages of Punch, in which the children away for their seaside holiday leave the sands for the last time in a mournful procession. The sky is dimmed with an evening cloud. Du Maurier has compressed ...

— George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians • T. Martin Wood

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