Dey piled whole sticks of cord wood on it at one time, wid little sticks crossways under 'em and, let me tell you, dat was a fire what would cook anything and evvything.
The best beds had heavy cords, wove crossways and lengthways, instead of slats.
Diana of the Crossways entertained them in queenly wise, and her husband and Yankee Jim bade them sit right down and make themselves at home.
On the return road Yankee Jim and Diana of the Crossways gave me kindly greeting as the train paused an instant before their door, and at Livingstone whom should I see but Tom the driver?
The description was quite correct, as far as it went; but, somehow or another, when shouted out at four crossways in the midst of a very pleasant little gathering it did not seem to add to dignity or command respect.
By a branch of holly with fifteen leaves upon it in the middle of the road half-way along to Machecoul, at the crossways of Benaste, the tip end turned toward Touvois.
Well, then, meet me at the Ragot crossways in the forest of Machecoul," said the master of warrens.
The road leads south and up hill from theCrossways to Abinger Hatch, bordering deep woods of oak and beech.
The Crossways farmhouse--perhaps Mr. Meredith had the name in his mind when he imagined the most gracious of his heroines--is of all the Surrey farmhouses I know the most fascinating.
Both faces are coarsely ground, the striƦ running crossways of the blade.
The fish plate should be set crossways over the kettle, to keep hot for serving; and a clean cloth over the fish, to prevent its losing its colour.
Spit them crossways on a small spit, with bay leaves, or large sage leaves between each piece.
He divined that this mood was to continue and instead of getting off his pony he swung crossways in the saddle.
The sun was not yet up when they reached a wider road running crossways to the one out of the village and here many troops were waiting as far up and down the road as Tom could see.
Then, crossways on them, poles about four inches through, placed at six inches apart.
Then, crossways on them, rods as thick as your finger, placed at an inch apart.
Then, crossways on them, other poles, about two inches through, placed at three inches apart.
Gerard Manley Hopkins Modern poetry, like the modern consciousness of which it is the epitome, seems to stand irresolute at a crossways with no signpost.
Only a few feet high: She was tired, and we stopped in the twilight-time for her rest, At the crossways close thereby.
The coulees run hell-west an' crossways at their littlest end an' wind up in a mud crack.
An' the first thing I knew I would have killed any man that would look crossways at her.
A Good Mouse Trap [198] When opening a tomato or other small can, cut the cover crossways from side to side making four triangular pieces in the top.
Long poles are then laid crossways of these slanting poles, and the whole can be covered with brush as in the case of the brush camp or with strips of bark laid overlapping each other like shingles.
And he loved the old Crossways almost as much as she did.
If the old Crossways had no tenant, it would be a purse all mouth.
Andrew Hedger repeated that it was The Crossways house, ne'er a doubt.
We are to live at The Crossways for four months of the year, so I shall have Dada in his best days and all my youngest dreams, my sunrise and morning dew, surrounding me; my old home for my new one.
Let me mount Bertha, I engage to deliver a letter at The Crossways to-night.
However, he had to knock at the door of The Crossways now, in the silent night time, a certainly empty house, to his fancy.
She has often pointed out to me from your ridges where The Crossways lies, about three miles from the Downs, near a village named Storling, on the road to Brasted.
I'll show ye on to The Crossways House,' the latter said, implying that he had already earned something by showing him The Crossways post.
The story of Diana of the Crossways is to be read as fiction.
When Redworth applied to his watch under the brilliant moonbeams, he discovered that he had been listening to this natural outcry of a decaying and shunted class full three-quarters of an hour, and The Crossways was not in sight.
On certain crossways and in some of the smaller streets there is an indescribable confusion, a real architectural riot, a dance of houses, a disorder that seems animated.
Do not force the back too tightly into place,--that is, crossways of the boards.
In planing edges test lengthways with the eye and straight-edge of some sort, and crossways by applying the try-square (Fig.
Stand the frame on as level a surface as you can find and sight across the top endways and crossways to see if either corner sticks up or down.
In such a case remember the sliding or drawing stroke and traverse the surface with a diagonal crosswaysmotion (Fig.
Now, the measure of that doorway is, or rather was, I ought to say, six feet and one inch lengthwise, and two feet all but two inches taken crossways in the clear.
His rider knew this; and, having no room in the rocky channel to turn and fire, drew rein at the crossways sharply, and plunged into the black ravine leading to the Wizard's Slough.
Peel as many onions as are required, making an incisioncrossways on the top, and put in a baking-dish with 1/2 oz.
Saying which I struck the pony a sharp blow with my riding-whip crossways on the flank.
He was seated at a writing-table with his head resting on his arms, which hung crossways over the desk.
Just as they came to the crossways they caught sight of a few Arabs retiring in their immediate front, these having been instructed so to do in order to lure them on.
Meanwhile the Arabs behind them had come from their place of concealment and taken up their position at the crossways on both sides of the path, and those at the other end, who had pretended to retire, returned in brisk pursuit.
And I lived alone and had nothing, nothing that ever lasted, for I was born on High and Over in the crossways of the winds, and they were the godfathers of my birth.
And Hobb was caught up in thecrossways of the wind, and turned about and about till he was dizzy, and all his thoughts were churning in his brain, so that he could not tell one from the other.
Only those who read her woman's blood and character with the head, will care for Diana of the Crossways now that the knot of her history has been unravelled.