Unknown to Beauregard, the advance of Buell’s army had already arrived opposite Pittsburg Landing and was being rapidly ferried across the river.
I have the papers now about the fight That rolled across my orchard, ridge and hill!
He had promised to make a junction with General Beauregard as soon as possible, but was delayed because he had no means of transporting his troops across the Mississippi.
While the fighting ragedacross the orchard, bullets were cutting the blossoms from the trees so thick and fast that the air appeared to be filled with falling snow.
Behind my orchard bright with blooming peach, “Prentiss took line acrossthe Hornets’ Nest”!
By Oxford and by Chester, To Berwick-on-the-Tweed, Then once across the borderland She shall find no need.
To-night across the down, Whistling and jolly, I sauntered out from town With my stick of holly.
The hill stands up and hedges wind Over the crest and drop behind; Here swallows dip and wild things go On peaceful errands to and fro Across the sloping meadow floor, And make no guess at blasting war.
Her head fell on the man's breast, and rolled across to his left arm, her hat askew.
She stepped across the threshold, felt along the wall for an electric switch, found it, and flooded the room with light.
Having thus bought their right to the table, he leaned across to the pale girl.
She came across a picture of him taken with the girl, and some letters from people Mr. Heron had employed to search for his wife, whom he had quarrelled with and left.
She prayed that, by a miracle, she might come across the sealed envelope.
Lights fromacross a court showed that the sole doors were those of a bath and a clothes-closet.
Clo removed a napkin she had laid over it, and pushed the parcel across the table.
Captain Hanwell is desirous that a path should be paved across the middle.
At the date when this contract was made, nearly fifty years before the first railway in this district was opened, the waterways offered the easiest and cheapest channel for the transport of heavy goods across the great Fen district.
The French registers number six large volumes, ruled in close vertical columns, which extend across the two open pages.
Beyond the barn was a gate, from which a road or street ran across between the prison proper and the east barracks.
The Dutch register is in five volumes only, but the entries are fuller than those in the French register, there being thirteen columns across the two pages.
To it, during the occupation of the Depot, were carried across the bodies of some 1,750 prisoners, whose fate it was to die within the prison walls.
Notwithstanding that, from the late heavy falls of rain, the flood was very strong, he conducted himself across in a very masterly style, and then ferried us over in a manner equally satisfactory.
As I have before observed, we had intended to leave him and the doctor the moment we had got across the river into Germany; but we now agreed not to quit our other friend.
As soon as possible we struck across the fields; but, to our dismay, no appearance of a wood could be discovered.
We stood for Brindisi, across to Cattaro, on the Albanian coast, and ran down the whole Adriatic; but all was disappointment.
Pell immediately put his helm the contrary way, which instantly brought the boasting and confident enemy across the hawse of H.
My case appeared desperate; and, to avoid suspicion, I thought the best method would be to walk deliberately across those plains, taking a different direction from that of every other person in them, but without appearing to avoid any.
I have friends on the opposite side, whom I promised to visit this evening; it would have been too late if I had taken the round by the bridge; and that was my motive for wishing to get across from where I now am.
However unfortunate this was, we were determined not to quit either him or Batley until we had piloted them across the Rhine.
That foreknowledge was "not according to their works," or according to their power; and so it holds its sovereign way across and above their long unworthiness.
Across all possible complications and obstacles of the human world around them they beheld "that blissful hope" (Tit.
He made a soldier put his musket across the doorway, so as to force a place for her to creep under: quick as lightning in she darted, and Fanny and I and my father after her.
She led the way with the grace of a young lady who has been taught to dance, across two antechambers, miserable-looking, but miserable or not, no house in Paris can be without them.
We have been frequently at their dinners and parties, and I should fill a roll as long as that genealogy Foote unrolled across the stage, if I were to give you a list of the names of all the people we have met at their house.
Across the street is the larger house of about the same date, now a printing establishment.
In a courtyard beneath the very shadow of the Cathedral is a delightful row, with a carved stone parapet running across the frontage, and the oddest mixture of lines and angles and irregular windows ever seen out of a picture.
Soft patches of transparent colour, amethyst and gold, far more glorious than even the rich blue and orange of the glass through which they filter, creep slowly across the aisle and climb the pillars.
The land troops did their part, and so fiercely were the French attacked that they fled across their bridge, but they rallied and returned, and, overcoming their foes, were ready to meet the English boats when they appeared.
Among the defences were a stockadeacross the river and a fort upon the island in midstream.
Lancelot coming across this was struck by it, and searched for the original, though he was quite uncertain what material it was in, whether it were a fresco, a sculpture, or a piece of needlework.
The great white cliffs which rise vertically on both sides of Dieppe have their counterparts in the white cliffs of England, so exactly similar in structure that no one can doubt they once joined across what is now the Channel.
After a stern resistance this rich prize fell into the hands of the English, who pillaged it for three days, and reaped a magnificent harvest of “draperies” and other goods, so that many stout ships were sent laden across to England.
The baron passed his hand roughly across his forehead, and stamped his foot in despair.
The boy walked along, looking neither to right nor left, but with his heart beating, lest he should come across the "harm" out of the way of which he had promised to keep himself.
Once more a hopeful thought flashed across his mind.
This is all you have to do," he said: "take my sword in your two hands, and swing it round across my throat.
Others rooted up great pine-trees, and broke themacross as sticks.
Till at last an artless peasant maiden told them she had seen him take the path of the mountain, across the stream, and the baroness following behind with weak and unsteady steps.
When All-hallow Eve came (October 31) the children and their cousins were invited to a beautiful old country place five miles across the Yorkshire moors to keep Halloween.
Nobody in the house heard Prop Corning whisper at that moment across the front-door walk, "Keep down, Clint, keep under the bushes.
Wilbert seized a loose board from the fence and held it squarely across the road, throwing it with all his strength toward the ponies.
When you wish a wide stem, slant your stitches across the line; if it must be narrow, take up the threads exactly on the line, or you can make two or more rows of stem stitch where you wish the line broadened.
When dry, cut the skein across where it is tied double, and with a bodkin and string, or with a long hair-pin, draw the crewel into its case.
They have started a mill dam acrossthe creek," replied Freda.
Then we can go ahead and build the dam across the brook.
A trip across the bay brought one to the shores of a real village, with school house, post-office and other accessories of civilization.
The boy at the wheel started up as soon as all were seated, and as the launch was a good-sized one the trip across the bay was both comfortable and enjoyable.
He was alone, andacross his knees was the red oar of which he seemed so fond.
He will take us across for ten cents each, and we need things to eat.
Finally the Lassie, which had somehow been induced to "mote," was descried coming across the bay from the direction of the old fisherman's cabin.
The Princess of Navarre had travelled a few days previously nearly across France, that the hoped-for son and heir might be a Bearnais born.
Right across it ran the broad, white, chalky highway, powdering with dust the double avenue of chestnuts which lined it.
The biggest St. Bernard I ever came across was almost a puppy to him.
In good weather, and when a heavy burden is to be carried, this hood is plaited in square folds across the crown of the head, forming a protection also from the heat of the sun.
The salle a manger was in the building across the yard.
Diligences by the score lie scattered around; and every now and then the dogs'-meat old horses who draw them go stalking solemnly across the square beneath the stunted lime-trees.
There were three gigantic-looking figures stalking together across an expanse of dusky heath.
A tight-fitting black jacket is worn over a red vest, more or less gaudily ornamented with rough embroidery, and fastening by small beltsacross the bosom.
The number of "Encumbered Estates" across the Channel would stagger the stoutest calculator.
Across these, long rows of stakes for nets, stretched away in endless column, and here and there a rude, light boat floated, or a fisherman slowly waded from point to point.
He looked towards the windows, across which dark blue silk curtains were drawn, as if he could see the passing-bell swinging in the old square tower.
Well, on the Saturday morning I was walking across the park when I met the Swedish massense who was to have gone down to Vere on the Friday night.
They had hardly ever entered our thoughts except as very occasionally the boy ran across one of his former playmates.
We went down by rough ladders made by nailing strips of board across two pieces of joist and the work down there was back-breaking and monotonous.
But I ran across any number of such cases as this where conditions were not nearly so bad as they appeared on the surface.
I never ran across a family down here in such misery as that which Steve Bonnington's wife endured for years without a whimper.
Then, too, she often ran across something she didn't need at the time but which was a good bargain; she would buy this and put it away.
I threw myself acrossthe foot of my little boy's bed, and lay like a dead woman until the morning broke.
Mr. Chamberlain had caught the infection, and was salaaming across the world to Mr. Kruger, like a marionette out of a box.
A negro nurse was scurrying across the hall with a plump baby in her arms.
Major Heaney went by special train from Kimberley, and Mr. Holden on horseback across country.
The room was crowded with men who spoke excitedly of a possible war and exchanged specimen cartridges acrossthe table.
There is a little piazza running across the front, upon which he is frequently seen sitting, smoking his pipe of strong Boer tobacco, with a couple of his trusted burghers beside him.
There was little doubt in her mind as to who the occupants were, and her heart beat fast, though she controlled herself to walk with calmness across the strip of pavement.
It seemed to her that the black trunks and outstretched branches of the trees were like prison bars across the moonlight.
Well, I might get a cable hurrying me across to the other side, and--you might go along.
I came across her again in California, when she was seeing the world as a free woman, after the old fellow's death.
The curtains were drawn across the window, but she could see that it was daylight.
They're trying to get back to the river and across to their own country.
With a quick warning thump of the heart she glancedacross at Ruthven Smith.
Besides, there was trouble across the border, and fierce fighting now and then.
The one excitement at Las Cruces Ranch was the fighting across the border; the great "scare" at El Paso, and the stories of small yet sometimes tragic raids made by bands of cattle stealers upon American ranches which touched the Rio Grande.
Across the river, where the water flowed high and wide just then, lay Mexico.
He was staring across the table at her, with a curious expression on his long, hatchet face.
He can't be expecting me to scream at him across the table," she thought.
I told you if you bet against me you would bet wrong," Knight said, when the astonished girl handed the letter across the breakfast table.
The Countess de Santiago did not seem to mind answering questions about her powers, which everyone asked across the dinner-table.
George stalked across to the middle of the chamber, and wheeled about, facing the row of nine motionless figures occupying the chairs.
And therewith he and his party rose and, bidding Lukabela a temporary farewell, hurried back to the Nonsuch, where preparations were at once made for the dismantling of the ship prior to the adventurous expedition across the isthmus.
Cautiously George emerged from his place of concealment, flitted across the width of the quay, and peered over its edge.
But during that five days' voyage it had become so clear to all that both ships must be thoroughly cleared of weed before the voyage across the Atlantic was undertaken, that they decided to careen them before proceeding further.
However, Flora went across the room to the table, and held up the little trousers that we all might see.
Then I ranacross the street to Mrs. Peter Jones' gate, and Amelia Powers came hurrying out of her yard.
Once again signals direct the formation of the fleet in double column, and like some giant duck leading a flock of monster ducklings across the sea the New York swims away, followed by her steel companions.
He could tell you how big a jump it was across the streamlet in front of the Rother Market, and how much higher the roof of the Bell was than of the Wool-Shop, next door--for he had climbed them both.
I merely give it because I came across such an illustration given in a book which is supposed to cater for those who desire the higher knowledge of golf, but as a matter of practical golf these situations but seldom occur.
We will consider, for the sake of argument, that the slice has been produced by a stroke which has come across the intended line of flight at an angle of 30 degrees.
Allowing for the drop in a green when one is putting across the slope, requires a lot of practice, and is most absolutely and emphatically not a thing that can be learned in an arm-chair, or in any golf school.
It is the drawing in, if we may use the term, of the head of the club in its travel across the intended line of flight, but not anything which is done intentionally during impact.
Swing just a trifle away from the straight line outwards, and the moment you come back on to the ball draw the club sharply across it.
Vardon supposes a case of a steep but even slope all the way from the ball to the hole, and he gives instructions as to how to put across this slope with cut so as to hold the ball up against the slope.
Jimbei spoke gravely as the two stood on the long bridge leading to Yahagi across the river.
Cold blew the blasts down from snow clad Tsukuba, with full sweepacross the Shimosa plain.
Hearing a stir he would have fled at the rear, but the body of the drunken cook, the intermediary of their dealings, lay square across the exit.
She had detected the motive of his lordship's summons, thought him captivated by a pretty face and figure come across by accident.
From the beginning the favoured residence site had been just outside the Hanzo[u] and Tayasu Gomon, across the inner moat from the palace.
The webs of spiders were wovenacross it; across the aperture.
Then would follow the return, the ride across the wide moat, its waters dotted with the fowl he went elsewhere to shoot, but safe within these precincts.
Shu[u]zen drew back with a side sweep which cut another cleanacross the girdle.
Dentatsu walked across the intervening sand, with more confidence and not a word of doubting protest.
In places he could jump across it; and elsewhere stepping stones offered passage.
Stripping to his girdle, before the assembled crowd he thrust his dagger into his left side and drew it across his belly.
The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
In a moment the cause was seen, when Peter John Schenck came running across the field toward the place where Will and Foster were standing beside a few of their classmates, who were also waiting for the game to begin.
Hawley, and Will quickly darted across the hallway to the room of his two classmates.
Quickly Will darted across the fields and soon came into the lower road.
As he burst into his room he found Foster already there, and, flinging his books savagely across the room, Will seated himself in his easy-chair and glared at his room-mate.
Slowly and cautiously the two freshmen crept along the side of the street and diagonally across the vacant field till they had gained the desired corner of the barn.
It'll march up Main Street, down East End Avenue, around through Walker Street, up West Street, across Drury Lane and then back into Main Street and then on down to the ball ground.
Obediently the boys all followed Will as he ran swiftly across the field, and in a brief time they discovered the pathway to which the old minister had referred.
In a brief time Will and Hawley were on their way across the country, leaving their more fortunate comrades, who were to ride, to follow as soon as their conveyances could be secured.
The increasing excitement seemed to provide an additional spur to the awkward freshman, for his speed suddenly increased and he darted across the line far in advance of his rivals who were bunched behind him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "across" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
