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An idea visibly
crossed
his mind.
Commander Bouguer approached the animal and attacked it with blows from harpoons and blasts from rifles, but without much success because bullets and harpoons
crossed
its soft flesh as if it were semiliquid jelly.
The sea was plowed continuously by the many steamers providing service between the Gulf of Mexico and New York or Boston, and it was
crossed
night and day by little schooners engaged in coastal trade over various points on the American shore.
My nerves calmed a little, but with my brain so aroused, I did a swift review of my whole existence aboard the Nautilus, every pleasant or unpleasant incident that had
crossed
my path since I went overboard from the Abraham Lincoln: the underwater hunting trip, the Torres Strait, our running aground, the savages of Papua, the coral cemetery, the Suez passageway, the island of Santorini, the Cretan diver, the Bay of Vigo, Atlantis, the Ice Bank, the South Pole, our imprisonment in the ice, the battle with the devilfish, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and that horrible scene of the vessel sinking with its crew . . .
He was coming toward me, arms crossed, silent, not walking but gliding like a ghost.
And then the widow was thin; she had long teeth; wore in all weathers a little black shawl, the edge of which hung down between her shoulder-blades; her bony figure was sheathed in her clothes as if they were a scabbard; they were too short, and displayed her ankles with the laces of her large boots
crossed
over grey stockings.
As she
crossed
it to go to the drawing room, Emma saw standing round the table men with grave faces, their chins resting on high cravats.
Night and morning the post-horses, three by three,
crossed
the street to water at the pond.
Against the plaster wall diagonally
crossed
by black joists, a meagre pear-tree sometimes leans and the ground-floors have at their door a small swing-gate to keep out the chicks that come pilfering crumbs of bread steeped in cider on the threshold.
He even already was admiring two
crossed
foils over his chimney-piece, with a death's head on the guitar above them.
She went downstairs,
crossed
the yard.
It went down the Rue Grand-Pont,
crossed
the Place des Arts, the Quai Napoleon, the Pont Neuf, and stopped short before the statue of Pierre Corneille.
Then he came straight to his pupil, and, planting himself in front of him with
crossed
arms—"Have you every vice, then, little wretch?
The curtains were in red levantine, that hung from the ceiling and bulged out too much towards the bell-shaped bedside; and nothing in the world was so lovely as her brown head and white skin standing out against this purple colour, when, with a movement of shame, she
crossed
her bare arms, hiding her face in her hands.
She went out,
crossed
the Boulevard, the Place Cauchoise, and the Faubourg, as far as an open street that overlooked some gardens.
Then in an ecstasy of heroism, that made her almost joyous, she ran down the hill,
crossed
the cow-plank, the foot-path, the alley, the market, and reached the chemist's shop.
With lowered faces, and swinging one leg
crossed
over the other knee, they uttered deep sighs at intervals; each one was inordinately bored, and yet none would be the first to go.
Charles was not listening to him; Rodolphe noticed it, and he followed the succession of memories that
crossed
his face.
He felt proud to be carrying it: as he
crossed
the room, he walked slowly; he held it with respect.
The Bishop
crossed
the room slowly; when he came to the threshold the cures formed in processional order.
He had borrowed from Fouque a layman's coat, and it was in this attire that he
crossed
the drawbridges.
An under-master rebuked him severely; instead of seeking to excuse himself, Julien
crossed
his arms on his breast:'_Peccavi, pater optime_ (I have sinned, I confess my fault, O Father),' he said with a contrite air.
'Well, yes, my friend,' he said to the Prince, 'you find me in Strasbourg, madly in love, indeed
crossed
in love.
Often, at night, as he
crossed
the vast courtyard of the Hotel de Fervaques, it was only by force of character and reason that he succeeded in keeping himself from sinking into despair.
He had his legs crossed, and had thrown one arm over the backrest of the chair.
She gently
crossed
her legs.
the supervisor is sitting extremely comfortably with his legs
crossed
and his arm hanging over the backrest here like some layabout.
This second man was standing with his legs
crossed
and his elbows on the backrest of the chair, provoking much laughter.
It briefly
crossed
his mind that the woman meant to entrap him on behalf of the court, but that was an objection he had no difficulty in fending off.
Close by him was the great pulpit, there were two plain golden crosses attached to its little round roof which were lying almost flat and whose tips
crossed
over each other.
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