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It was decorated with two garlands of paper flowers which
crossed
one another, and were united in the middle by a crown of the same flowers; while along the walls were rows of gilt shields bearing the names of saints--St.
They
crossed
the forest, taking the road from Vandame to Marchiennes.
Pikemen, putters, trammers
crossed
them at every step; no one knew anything; all were shouting; it must be some great misfortune.
The mob
crossed
the Joiselle road, went a short distance up the Cron road and then mounted towards Cougny.
The railway line barred their passage, and they
crossed
it, pulling down the palings.
She
crossed
the ends of the coverlet over the little one's quivering body, and placed herself before the window, looking out vaguely.
Feeling certain this time that he was not mistaken, he
crossed
the room, putting his hands out into the darkness to feel the opposite bed.
A man of great height--over six English feet--he was powerfully built, serious in manner, not very sociable, sometimes headstrong, and quite ill-tempered when
crossed.
We had
crossed
the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Strait of Magellan opened less than 700 miles to the south.
Consequently, I decided to divide our energies so we wouldn't both be worn out at the same time, and this was the arrangement: while one of us lay on his back, staying motionless with arms
crossed
and legs outstretched, the other would swim and propel his partner forward.
Arms crossed, leaning against a corner of the table, the commander studied us with great care.
These thoughts swiftly
crossed
my mind while this strange individual fell silent, like someone completely self-absorbed.
I'm going to make another underwater tour of the world-- perhaps my last, who knows?--and I'll review everything I've studied in the depths of these seas that I've
crossed
so often, and you can be my fellow student.
The solar rays easily
crossed
this aqueous mass and dispersed its dark colors.
Then we
crossed
a prairie of algae, open-sea plants that the waters hadn't yet torn loose, whose vegetation grew in wild profusion.
Such thoughts hadn't previously
crossed
my mind, and I was determined to keep on my guard.
Then a sudden thought
crossed
my mind.
Captain Nemo, arms
crossed
over his chest, knelt in a posture of prayer, as did all the friends of him who had loved them. . . .
The alarming idea of sharks
crossed
my mind.
It seemed to be traveling at random, as if hesitating over which course to follow, but it never
crossed
the Tropic of Cancer.
Here are the ones that the Nautilus's nets most frequently hauled on board: rays, including spotted rays that were oval in shape and brick red in color, their bodies strewn with erratic blue speckles and identifiable by their jagged double stings, silver-backed skates, common stingrays with stippled tails, butterfly rays that looked like huge two-meter cloaks flapping at middepth, toothless guitarfish that were a type of cartilaginous fish closer to the shark, trunkfish known as dromedaries that were one and a half feet long and had humps ending in backward-curving stings, serpentine moray eels with silver tails and bluish backs plus brown pectorals trimmed in gray piping, a species of butterfish called the fiatola decked out in thin gold stripes and the three colors of the French flag, Montague blennies four decimeters long, superb jacks handsomely embellished by seven black crosswise streaks with blue and yellow fins plus gold and silver scales, snooks, standard mullet with yellow heads, parrotfish, wrasse, triggerfish, gobies, etc., plus a thousand other fish common to the oceans we had already
crossed.
"What's that?""It's because that same locality where Moses
crossed
with all his people is now so clogged with sand, camels can barely get their legs wet.
I would have gone down the steep slopes of this mountain,
crossed
this entire immense continent, which surely connects Africa with America, and visited its great prehistoric cities.
As for the foregrounds passing before our eyes, they were fantastically carved rocks, forests of trees that had
crossed
over from the vegetable kingdom into the mineral kingdom, their motionless silhouettes sprawling beneath the waves.
In any case this wall seemed to signal the end of Atlantis, of which, all in all, we had
crossed
only a small part.
That day the Nautilus
crossed
an odd part of the Atlantic Ocean.
"Yes," the captain replied coolly, "the Antarctic pole, that unknown spot
crossed
by every meridian on the globe.
He scaled an overhanging rock that ended in a small promontory and there, mute and motionless, with
crossed
arms and blazing eyes, he seemed to be laying claim to these southernmost regions.
During the night all these memories
crossed
over from one dream to the next, not giving my brain a moment's rest.
He
crossed
his arms.
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