Word: across
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boomed across the raging main...
...woods; for a while they were lost to view, and nothing could be heard but the barking of the hounds in the distance; soon, however, the pack appeared at the top of a hill, and came rushing down, closely followed by the riders, who, after taking two fences, galloped across a field and disappeared again in the woods. After the hunt the team drove back to the city, and after lunching at the hotel had their pictures taken at Notman's, and then proceeded at once to the Montreal Cricket Grounds, where the match was played...
HAPPENING across a copy of the Vermont Record and Farmer last summer, I found in its columns the following high-toned production of a great mind, and feeling that it would be an immense loss to the college world in general, and Harvard in particular, if this expression of opinion concerning regattas should be left unrecorded save in the columns of a Vermont paper, I send it to you for publication...
...Across a varied plain that stretches back...
...foot of Boston Common. Among their number was Lieutenant Philippe d'Auvergne, Due de Bouillon. They landed at East Cambridge (in order to avoid being intercepted by the 'Port peelers).Two lanterns, hung from the steeple of the North Church, in Boston, telegraphed news of their movement across the river. The sexton who lighted the lanterns was afterwards arrested by the British at a funeral, and, upon examination, condemned to death. A threat of retaliation made by Washington procured his respite, and he was finally exchanged...