Sentence Examples

1. The latter had usurped nothing, had cast no shades athwart his life.
2. And while I suffer thus, there comes no ray Of hope to gladden me athwart the gloom Nor do I look for it in my despair But rather clinging to a cureless woe, All hope do I abjure for evermore.
3. I clapped on my brakes, but my impetus was too great, and there before me a car was sliding athwart my course.
4. At length, a swift trampling seemed, quite audibly, to rush athwart the darkness.
5. The forms in the background looked like unearthly beings, gliding before the eye, and cleaving the air with frantic and unmeaning gestures while the savage passions of such as passed the flames were rendered fearfully distinct by the gleams that shot athwart their inflamed visages.
6. The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning and when their fingers fall athwart my path in the wild glare of the battle-lanterns, I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows of fallen columns at Balbec, and Tadmor, and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin.
7. As I sit at my window this summer afternoon, hawks are circling about my clearing the tantivy of wild pigeons, flying by twos and threes athwart my view, or perching restless on the white-pine boughs behind my house, gives a voice to the air a fishhawk dimples the glassy surface of the pond and brings up a fish a mink steals out of the marsh before my door and seizes a frog by the shore the sedge is bending under the weight of the reed-birds flitting hither and thither and for the last half hour I have heard the rattle of railroad cars, now dying away and then reviving like the beat of a partridge, conveying travellers from Boston to the country.
8. So riveted and intense had been that gaze, and so changeless his attitude, that a stranger might not have told the living from the dead, but for the occasional gleamings of a troubled spirit, that shot athwart the dark visage of one, and the deathlike calm that had forever settled on the lineaments of the other.