Presently the Spider anchored by the stern, within pistol-shot of the schooner, right athwart his bows, and began to blaze away again.
The shutters were thrown athwart the reflected beam of sunlight.
Long golden strips of light lay athwart the grass between elongated shades cast by cows and bushes.
Girl,” she gasped, “what are you, with your little pleasures or prejudices to come athwart such a sorrow as mine?
Even as he spoke, she suddenly remembered that the canal lay straight athwart their course.
At the head of the water they had made a weir, through the boughs of which the current was running like a sluice; but the further progress of the floods was stopped by a bank that had been gradually thrown up athwart the channel.
The plain was surrounded on all sides by sand hills, and that towards which we were advancing appeared to run athwart our course instead of nearly parallel to it as heretofore.
At this moment, a dazzling flash shot athwart the sky, illuminating the landscape with a bluish tint, and the thunder burst forth furiously.
The darkness of a summer night in the Greek Archipelago--fire-flies flitting athwart ilex and olive bushes--a glimpse of the distant starlit sea.
George Vine, pointing towards the fireplace, where he could see a figure lyingathwart the hearth-rug.
Meanwhile, Louise Vine had seated herself by the dining-room table with the light of the shaded lamp falling athwart her glossy hair, and half throwing up her sweet pale face, just as Leslie had pictured it far away upon the cliff.
There was no fire there to thaw his chilled and trembling frame--no light to gleam athwart the darkness, and send forth its pilgrim rays to meet him and guide his footsteps to his threshold.
They went their way rejoicing, and with them passed the solitary ray of sunshine that streamed athwart the dark horrors of the emigrant ship, like the wandering pencil of light that sometimes visits the condemned cell of a prison.
From Tuscaloosa, he shot athwart the wilds of Alabama, over Indian grounds, that bloody battles have rendered ever memorable.
Then athwart the vapors dun The Easter sun Streamed with one broad track of splendor!
Round me, o'er me, everywhere, All the sky is grand with clouds, And athwart the evening air Wheel the swallows home in crowds.
Now all the leaves had fallen; the branches bare Made a perpetual moaning in the air, And screaming from their eyries overhead The ravens sailed athwart the sky of lead.
She anchored athwart Le Franklin's bows, and commenced a very heavy raking fire.
At last a shadow cameathwart the general happiness.
I thank you in feeble words for this sweet ray of sunshine that you have cast athwart my dark and dreary path?
Wild through the crowd comes flying a man that nothing can stay, Maddening against the gate that is locked athwart his way.
By night the gathering shadows creep Along the dusk and hollow halls, And the slumber-broken palace calls With stifled moans from its nightmare sleep; And then the ghostly moonlight falls Athwart the darkness brown and deep.
A blue flash shot athwart the sky, the thunder rolled with a terrible din, and a blast of wind dashed over the plain, sweeping away the toldos, the fragments of which it dispersed far and wide.
Heavy black clouds rolled athwart the sky; the wind blew in gusts with a shrill whistle, and large drops of rain fell on the sand.
Now the first beams of the rising sun shoot up athwart the ruddy sky, gilding the topmost boughs of the trees.
Strange as it may seem, these wanderers in space, which occasionally flame athwart the sky, consist largely of pure iron; at least this is true of such specimens as have from time to time been found on the earth's surface.
After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glancedathwart the glooming flats.
It was a little narrow box of a cabin with four bunks in it, two on one side running athwart the deck and two fore and aft.
Then our horses paced softly on the dust of a road, while athwart an avenue of orange trees whose foliage seemed as black as coal, the blind walls of the hacienda shone dead white like a vision of mists.
That cursed Spanish ship ahead is heaving-to athwart our hawse.
