Again and again these horrible creatures came writhing and springing towards us across the surface of this putrid bog, and it was only by keeping our shot-guns for ever ready that we could feel safe from them.
Lord Roxton said nothing, but a brown hand was stretched out to meacross the table.
A brisk wind had come up and was driving puffy white clouds across the sky.
After the men had gone back to work, Alexandra put on a white dress and her sun-hat, and she and Carl set forth across the fields.
I happened to look out of the window and saw her going across the fields in her thin dress and sun-hat.
Once when he sat down to chat, he told us that in the immigrant car ahead there was a family from 'across the water' whose destination was the same as ours.
Late in the afternoon I saw Antonia driving her cattle homeward across the hill.
Almost every day she came running across the prairie to have her reading lesson with me.
Four or five little black figures hurried before it across the green-grey of the field, and in a moment it was evident this Martian pursued them.
Across the Thames, except just where the boats landed, everything was quiet, in vivid contrast with the Surrey side.
On the fourteenth day I went into the kitchen, and I was surprised to find that the fronds of the red weed had grown right across the hole in the wall, turning the half-light of the place into a crimson-coloured obscurity.
At that time firing was going on across the common, and it was said the first party of Martians were crawling slowly towards their second cylinder under cover of a metal shield.
Here he took up the spoor of the Belgian, followed it across the clearing, over the palisade, and out into the dark jungle beyond.
Across the speaker's shoulder, limp and frightened, the girl waited for the Arab's reply.
Across the tent a figure bent above the blankets of a bed.
Across the compound he ran, his revolver still clutched tightly in his hand.
You'll go to him with your violin at your chin and the bow drawn across the strings to tell him of the beautiful world you have found.
He would tell him what a beautiful place Sunnycrest was, and he would try to convince him how very desirable it was that he and Jill, and even Mr. Jack himself, should go across the bridge at the very first opportunity that offered.
Another was begun from Loch Oich, on the line of the Caledonian Canal, across the middle of the Highlands, through Glengarry, to Loch Hourn on the western sea.
Across the Loch is the little town of Fort William, one of the forts established at the end of the seventeenth century to keep the wild Highlanders in subjection.
The Chirk Aqueduct carries the canal across the valley of the Ceriog, between Chirk Castle and the village of that name.
The knight whipped out his sword, but the Devil of Torn was even quicker, so that it seemed that the King's messenger had deliberately hurled his weapon across the room, so quickly did the outlaw disarm him.
And the old man leaned far across the table so that his eyes, burning with an insane fire of venom, blazed but a few inches from those of the priest.
Amongst others, a very curious one; it is deemed infamous for a woman of Villa Seca to goacross the market-place, or to be seen there, though they have no hesitation in showing themselves in the streets and lanes.
Across the moor, in the direction in which I was proceeding, rose a lofty eminence, naked and bare.
Sabocha's connection with the gang at length became known, and he fled, with the greater part of his associates, across the Tagus to the northern provinces.
Whereupon he conducted me across the plaza, to the house of the alcalde, where I found the rustic dignitary seated in the passage, enjoying the refreshing coolness of a draught of air which rushed through.
Across the valley is a house I did not know before, and there I found, rocking one baby and expecting another, one of my schoolgirls, a daughter of Uncle Bird Dowell.
Across the way is Gatesby, brown and tall, lord of two thousand acres shrewdly won and held.
Across the road, where fat Reuben lived, they all went outdoors while the teacher retired, because they did not boast the luxury of a kitchen.
What make you, Alleyne, of these black lines which are drawn across the sheath?
I have seen four-score men pass from yonder shaw across the glade, and nigh every man of them had a great burden on his back.
A second young lady presently came out of the house, across the piazza, descended into the garden and approached the young girl of whom I have spoken.
Acton passed in across the window-sill; he wondered, for an instant, what was the matter with her.
She came back alone, on foot, across the fields--this being a short way which they often used.
Then he invited the Baroness to descend, and the two wandered away, across the grass, and sat down on the log beside the brook.
He kept awaking and cocking his ears at the bright world without, where the April sun was blazing across the snow.
A colossal and formless something was rushing across the field of his vision.
The flood of fight ebbed down in him, and, releasing his prey, he turned tail and scampered on across the open in inglorious retreat.
I saw the other one run off across the snow," Bill announced with cool positiveness.
An' I found hoss tracks an' steer tracks goin' across the line.
With them trotting forward, he made better time for some miles across the valley.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "across the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
