Across Sentence Examples

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  • Could she make it across the lava field by herself?

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  • A slow smile worked its way across his face and into his eyes.

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  • Oh, I'll go across and have a look....

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  • It was a perfect evening... until something slithered across her foot.

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  • He paced back and forth across the room, deep in thought.

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  • And so we are interested in the Italian restaurants people drive across town repeatedly to frequent.

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  • They would find someone to drive the wagon back across the desert.

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  • He pointed across the valley.

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  • She replaced the receiver and ignored the topaz glare that followed her across the room.

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  • He nibbled at her shirt and she ran her fingers across his velvety muzzle.

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  • The light was green and she accelerated across the intersection.

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  • He stared across the field.

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  • Let us go across to Mary's room, he said.

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  • On the way across the open water, they saw several dolphins.

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  • Also there is a bar across the entrance of our every cove, or particular inclination; each is our harbor for a season, in which we are detained and partially land-locked.

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  • His arms were folded across his chest and his rugged features were drawn into a troubled frown.

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  • Darting across the room, she used the door jam to break her speed as she turned to Brandon's room.

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  • One day my balloon ran away with me and brought me across the deserts to this beautiful country.

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  • Gerald was staring across the room.

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  • If we come across another of the strange fruit we must avoid it.

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  • I only came across Pelageya in Yukhnovo...

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  • Since his current office was directly across from their bedroom, it seemed a better place for babies that Alex said could be born early.

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  • Yancey strode across the room and opened the door, allowing the man in a black suit to enter.

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  • Pierre knew that everyone was waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror seized him at the thought of that dreadful step.

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  • Above him there was now nothing but the sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it.

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  • She looked across at him.

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  • A deep furrow ran across his forehead, and standing by a window he stared over his spectacles seeing no one.

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  • Emotions of all kinds played across her face as the night progressed.

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  • He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, passing it across Helene's back.

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  • Don't walk across there.

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  • Andrew threw out his hand and received an ugly gash across the knuckles.

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  • The night he received the news, Kutuzov sent Bagration's vanguard, four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim to the Vienna-Znaim road.

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  • Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natasha, who, though shy, went on carefully executing her steps.

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  • You seemed to be enjoying it when I carried you across the creek.

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  • Xander, however, was a complication she'd never before run across.

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  • She stood and paced, and emotions flew across her face.

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  • You still want to get across the river?

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  • Sliding an arm across the back of Carmen's chair, he leaned close, speaking softly in her ear.

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  • He led her across the wide porch and unlocked the door, flipping on the light.

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  • Brady stirred across the room.

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  • I'd rather see you alive and here than blown to pieces trying to get across the river.

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  • A hunter told me that he once saw a fox pursued by hounds burst out on to Walden when the ice was covered with shallow puddles, run part way across, and then return to the same shore.

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  • When two legs of my level were on the shore and the third on the ice, and the sights were directed over the latter, a rise or fall of the ice of an almost infinitesimal amount made a difference of several feet on a tree across the pond.

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  • Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from Vienna.

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  • Just before him, almost across the middle of the passage on the bare floor, lay a sick man, probably a Cossack to judge by the cut of his hair.

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  • For a moment she watched them gracefully move across the room - totally in sync.

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  • Kiera concentrated on her movements rather than the silent form across from her, intent on not looking like a fool in front of a master warrior.

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  • Walking across the country seems crazy.

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  • However, she needed to get to the emerops facility in the town and then cross the bridge across the Mississippi.

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  • He heard Hannah crying and smelled the unmistakable scent of human blood before he took a step onto the block.  He strode down the block and paused in front of Hannah's cell.  She was curled up on the bed, sobbing.  When he looked at the cell across from her, he saw why.  Jared stood in the cell, covered in blood.  The cell looked as if a human had exploded, and Rhyn saw a pile of bones Jared had gnawed clean then stacked neatly.

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  • The woman pursed her lips and crossed her arms, eyeing him.  "I'll get him," Toby shouted from across the courtyard.

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  • After turning the knob once to confirm it was locked, he paused, somewhat unsteadily, and glanced across the motel parking lot.

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  • A large bath towel was draped across his shoulder.

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  • The man muttered a "No, thanks," released his support and continued on his way to the beach across the road.

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  • Leo thought to himself that with one more drink he'd try to swim across the Chesapeake.

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  • Motel personnel conducted a search and a motel employee later found the Parkside man's clothing and room key on the public beach across the road.

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  • Police Headquarters was located in the center of town between the City Hall and the library, across from a well-kept park that contained the obligatory statue of a civil war hero.

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  • By the time he left the office for the ten-minute walk across the square to the courthouse, he felt com­fortable with the progress of the case.

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  • As Dean looked for a place to park, he noticed a late model Chevrolet with a rental sticker on the rear bumper parked across the street.

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  • There in the blur of a passing auto and mirrored in descending waves of rain was the huddled figure of Cynthia Byrne stumbling across the parking lot toward the road and the beach beyond.

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  • Dean half-felt his way across the parking lot in his bare feet, cursing the pebbles and splashing through ankle-deep puddles at curbside before stumbling into the absolute darkness of the beach-side path.

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  • Across the field, two elk grazed on the hill below the tree line.

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  • A smile came from her heart and spread across her mouth.

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  • Damian sat at the desk, bent over his iPad as he scanned messages and reports from immortals across the globe.

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  • She crossed to it and pushed it open, her attention falling to the slender blonde slung across Jonny's bed.

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  • He strode across the room and down the hallway.

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  • Xander shifted from across the room, his red eyes punctuating the darkness.

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  • When he shifted, Jen leaned away with a coy smile and trailed the finger across his lower abdomen, moving around him.

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  • She shrugged out of her coat without releasing the notebook and sat across from him on the black couch.

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  • She recognized the huge orange cat seated on the chair across from her.

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  • Jenn lay across his bed in the dark, sobbing quietly.

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  • Yully flashed across the screen, identifying who called.

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  • She clambered forward to drag Darian out of the way of one, only to feel the crushing weight of another as it slammed across her legs.

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  • My father brought me from across the sea.

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  • The land of the barbarians, his father boomed from across the ship's hull.

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  • Too restless to sleep, he tossed the pillow across the bed and snatched another, his gaze settling on the book.

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  • Surprise registered across his chiseled features, and he took a step forward.

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  • The fire provided the only light in the large, airy chamber, its glow and shadows flickering across the room.

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  • Then she walked across the field to the house.

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  • Rob was silent, a large white patch across his nose.

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  • Xander sat down across from Jule.

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  • As soon as he trotted out upon the surface of the river he found himself safe from pursuit, and Zeb was already running across the water toward Dorothy.

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  • She folded her arms across her stomach and walked closer to him so she didn't have to yell.

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  • I don't have the appetite of the beast, he said, lifting his chin to the glowing silver eyes across the corridor.

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  • She wandered through the room, trailing her fingers across the tables.

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  • She stretched again before settling into an awkward stance across from him.

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  • Thoughts cut across his mind like razors.

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  • She lay with her hands and head across his chest heaving painful, soul-shattering sobs.

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  • I thought something was wrong when Brady's men stumbled across one of the devices and returned it to the mountain.

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  • A slow smile slid across his face, revealing pointed teeth.

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  • Before leaving, Hunter showed Dean the beach across the road where it was presumed Jeffrey Byrne took his last steps on land.

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  • The Other sailed across the orchard and slammed into the hillside and through it.

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  • The messenger rushed across the street to deliver his package to the man on the corner.

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  • She scrunched her head down until her fingertips brushed the rough material across her eyes.

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  • The first three arrows streaked across the arena and implanted themselves in his back.

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  • He broke down and cried quietly for his father and their men, wondering how he could make it across the ocean alone.

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  • She made her way deliberately across the field littered with traps and pits until she reached the small entrance and the waiting guards.

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  • Uneasy, he placed it across the chamber on the table once more.

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  • He seated himself on a table across the room from the imprisoned man.

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  • My king, if I may ask, why did you kill all those who came with me from across the sea?

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  • Memon snapped into action, moving across the chamber with inhuman speed.

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  • Both cell doors had exploded off the cells and lay crumpled across the room.

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  • Hilden led him across the hall to a smaller group of men.

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  • She fluttered butterfly kisses across his face, thrilled at the heat and strength of his body so near hers.

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  • As dawn broke across the sky, the elder demon who possessed Memon spoke to him.

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  • With feline grace, he strode across the room.

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  • Little feet pounded across the living room into the kitchen and Destiny interrupted them in an excited voice.

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  • Carmen glanced at Alex, but he was watching someone across the room.

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  • Then they waded the horses across and headed for the ruins.

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  • Rob walked gingerly across the rocks, wincing.

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  • Padding barefoot across the footbridge, she joined Alex.

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  • The door closed behind her and his quick step clipped across the floor.

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  • Pulling a chair out, he sat down and put one foot across his knee.

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  • As Rob crossed the foot bridge across the creek, Alex and Gerald emerged from the barn and started for the house.

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  • It bounced off the wall and hit the floor, parts flying off as it slid across the hardwood floor.

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  • He worked his way across the crowded room and knelt beside Alondra, putting a comforting arm around her shoulders.

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  • He followed the tracks until he lost them across some rocks.

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  • Mr. O'Hara slid a leg over the corner of her desk and folded his arms across his chest.

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  • Memory of the land in Arkansas streaked across her mind like a comet, leaving a trail of questions in its wake.

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  • He moved across the concrete with feline grace and propped himself against a pillar with one broad shoulder.

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  • He threw one long leg across the other and glanced around, absently plucking a package of cigarettes from his shirt pocket.

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  • She shuddered involuntarily as it slowly uncoiled, stretched across the porch and eventually disappeared off the edge into the tall grass.

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  • The deer paused only a second when it saw her, and then bounded across the clearing, its white tail held erect.

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  • As the whip came across the grass, it lay over neatly, cut sharply by the whip.

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  • He folded his arms across the top of the car door and rested his chin on his arms.

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  • A vine hung across the trail and when she reached to push it away, it fell on her arm.

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  • The wind came suddenly, and with a vengeance, bouncing leaves and small branches across the yard.

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  • With a clatter and scrape, the rocking chair turned on its side and skid several feet across the porch.

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  • It roared on the tin roof and plunged off the eves, where the wind caught it and drove it across the yard in horizontal sheets.

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  • He threw the towel across his broad shoulders and lowered himself to a bench beside the table.

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  • The window ruptured, spraying glass across the kitchen floor.

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  • He leaned against the counter and folded arms across his chest.

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  • He strode across the room and opened the door, pausing to gaze down at her.

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  • Justin leaned across the pool and cupped a hand under the stream of water.

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  • He laughed and dropped the towel across her shoulder.

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  • He frowned as he led her across the verandah in a graceful waltz.

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  • He lifted her hand to his lips and brushed his lips across it.

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  • I ran across it one time and thought it described Dad.

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  • He tugged her across the verandah, and Mr. O'Hara stood as they approached, his eyes sparkling with humor.

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  • The emotions flying across his features were too quick for her to follow.

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  • Brandon clutched his hands together across from Jessi, as if wanting to hug his sister but unwilling to make such a gesture.

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  • She hugged the girl and fluttered kisses across her features, until the teen protested loudly enough for Xander to hear.

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  • He slid his thumb across the screen to unlock it.

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  • Many rules of etiquette govern the proper conduct of the chopsticks; laying them across the bowl is a sign that the guest wishes to leave the table; they are not used during a time of mourning, when food is eaten with the fingers; and various methods of handling them form a secret code of signalling.

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  • Within the city the principal streets have been roughly paved, and iron bars placed across the narrow alleys to prevent the passage of camels.

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  • This volcanic tract extends across the Campagna of Rome, till it rises again in the lofty group of the Alban hills, the highest summit of which, the Monte Cavo, is 3160 ft.

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  • If the coenosteum of Millepora be broken across, each pore-canal (perhaps better termed a polypcanal) is seen to be interrupted by a series of transverse partitions, representing successive periods of growth with separation from the underlying dead portions.

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  • It differs from Limnocodium in having practically no manubrium but a wide mouth two-thirds the diameter of the umbrella across.

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  • One of the most important was the passing of a golden snake under the clothes of the initiated across their bosom and its withdrawal from below - an old rite of adoption.

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  • The antiquity of the town is placed beyond doubt by the Roman bridge across the Esk and the Roman remains found in its vicinity.

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  • The connections of its stele witl that of the parent axis are made across the pericycle of the latter Its cortex is never in connection with the cortex of the parent, but with its pericycle.

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  • Sometimes in such cases the cambium ceases to be active round these bays and joins across the outside of the bay, where it resumes its normal activity, thus isolating a phtoem strand, or, as it is sometimes called, a phloem -island, in the midst of the xylem.

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  • The cells of the staminal hairs of Tradescantia air ginica contain a large sap-cavity across which run, in.

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  • A peculiar feature in which tropical Africa stands alone is that at least one-fifth and probably more of the species are common to both sides of the continent and presumably stretch right across it.

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  • Seen in front, its white face, striped with black, and broad black gorget attract attention as it sits, often motionless, on the rocks; while in flight the white of the lower part of the back and white band across the wings are no less conspicuous even at a distance.

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  • In regard to fencing and precautions at level-crossings, less rigid requirements may be enforced than with standard railways; and in some cases where trains are likely to be few, it has been provided that the normal position of the gates at crossings shall be across the line.

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  • Mr English, one of his secretaries, has furnished a picture of him at this period seated in a study lined on two sides with books and darkened by green screens and curtains of blue muslin, which required readjustment with almost every cloud that passed across the sky.

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  • It was seized by the crusaders after their march across Mt Taurus, A.D.

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  • Its Greek name, "Aopvos, was explained to mean that no bird could fly across it.

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  • Slowly, one little step at a time, it crept up across the rough place where it had slipped and fallen so often.

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  • But I expect that technology and free enterprise will take us across a threshold where things formerly regarded as scarce will not be so any more.

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  • He was just going to take it when Dolokhov, leaning across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it.

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  • When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, she rose and, tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran timidly to the corner where Denisov sat.

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  • I will tell him myself, and you'll listen at the door, and Natasha ran across the drawing room to the dancing hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord with his face in his hands.

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  • At the same instant, with a cry like a wail, first one hound, then another, and then another, sprang helter-skelter from the wood opposite and the whole pack rushed across the field toward the very spot where the wolf had disappeared.

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  • Again he looked to the right and saw something running toward him across the deserted field.

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  • As soon as he came across a former acquaintance or anyone from the staff, he bristled up immediately and grew spiteful, ironical, and contemptuous.

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  • Only at the end of it, in front of the almshouse and the lunatic asylum, could be seen some people in white and others like them walking singly across the field shouting and gesticulating.

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  • The buildings in Carriage Row, across the river, in the Bazaar and the Povarskoy, as well as the barges on the Moskva River and the timber yards by the Dorogomilov Bridge, were all ablaze.

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  • There were shelves running across every wall from floor to eye level.

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  • She walked to the music cabinets and ran her hands across the top.

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  • Jackson took a step back in shock, then noticed Connor and Sarah across the room laughing hysterically.

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  • Disappointment flashed across her face.

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  • She captivated him as she glided across the stage.

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  • She slid her hand across Jackson's shoulder.

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  • Elisabeth held the first page in her hand and printed across the top read, 'God's Promise Unfolding'.

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  • A smile spread across Elisabeth's face as Jackson crooned, "Nice dog."

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  • He pulled a chair out and sent it flying across the room through a wall.

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  • Slithering across the room, she sang in her most sultry voice.

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  • He grinned at the perplexity across Connor's face.

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  • Within seconds, she had decapitated him and sent the disembodied head soaring across the room.

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  • She strode across the room to the stainless steel sink.

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  • They sprinted across the floor and leaped up to the elevated platforms, poking their soft muzzles into the stanchions to gobble the grain.

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  • As his square toed western boots clicked across the floor, a large belt buckle traced the graceful swing of his stride.

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  • Striding across to her side, he reached for them.

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  • Carmen continued at a snail's pace across the floor.

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  • She left him in the coop with the chicken and marched across the yard to the house, her boots making sucking noises each time she lifted her foot from the mud.

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  • Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, Carmen trudged across the room and drew the curtains back from her window.

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  • Snow had drifted across the steps and onto the porch.

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  • She carefully felt her way down the steps and pushed a trail across the yard to the barn.

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  • Crunching across the yard to the dairy, she found the stove there burning warm as well.

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  • He leaned a shoulder against the wall and folded his arms across his chest.

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  • A light wind whispered across the grass and a cloud drifted over, blocking the sun from her face.

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  • Of course, it did look suspicious, and if she had come across Lori and Alex doing the same thing...

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  • You made your feelings for Alex clear at the wedding - hanging all over each other and making eyes at each other across the room.

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  • It shot off the counter, hitting the block wall and bouncing off to roll across the floor and stop at Carmen's feet.

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  • He marched across the floor to the door and opened it.

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  • Josh strolled across the room and glanced down at her - misreading her expression, as usual.

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  • He scraped the toe of his boot across the floor.

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  • A disturbance at the entrance caught their attention and Carmen turned to see Alex striding purposefully across the floor toward them.

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  • She was mostly white with freckles across her haunches and a few spots on her neck and chest.

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  • The massive shepherd mix dog sleeping on her couch rose and trotted across the small apartment to her.

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  • She sat near the door, weapons slung across her back.

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  • Brady stretched a muscular arm across the table beside him to tug the box out of his other uniform.

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  • She jogged across the compound to the area of one of the breaches.

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  • The people were doing whatever it took to survive outside the walls, and they'd run across more men in Western uniforms.

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  • Dan ran ahead of them, Elise behind, and they flew down a deer path to a creek, then darted across rocks to the other bank.

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  • Elise straddled a chair, and Lana sat across from her.

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  • She looked at him hard for a moment before crossing the room to sit on the chair across from him.

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  • She saw smoke moving across the sky a moment before the helicopter rolled and began its sickening maneuvers again.

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  • When dawn outlined the boards hammered across the windows, she rose.

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  • When he awoke again, it was to the feeling of a warm breeze across his face.

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  • The emerops facility was across a field and a road then down a few blocks in the ghost town that was the city of Randolph on the eastern shores of the Mississippi.

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  • We planted crops in the field you walked across and a few others down the road.

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  • A couple of hours later, Dan's voice came across his net.

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  • Just please ask Mike to help me get across.

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  • All Mike had to do was get her across the river.

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  • They're prepping to take you across now.

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  • The man who piloted her across the river stayed in the sub, and she and Jack climbed out.

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  • It was still dark, and the moons of the underworld hadn't moved far across the sky.  He sat, uneasy with the dream exchange with Death.  A small fire burned between him and Katie, whose pale features and shadowed eyes were showing the effects of both her pregnancy and the toll the underworld took on mortals.

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  • He'd spent his life relatively alone, crossing between the underworld and human world as needed.  Death had been far from co-dependent, and he'd had free rein.  Until two days ago, when he crossed into the underworld with Katie slung across his shoulder.  He'd forgotten what it was to have someone completely dependent on him.

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  • The angel looked up at him doubtfully then picked his way across roots to the pocket in the tree trunk.  Rhyn scavenged for what dry wood he could find and took the armful back to the tree.  Toby was huddled in the small cave, shaking with cold.

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  • Ully called from the cell across the narrow hallway.

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  • Ully smiled gently at him from across the hall.

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  • The angel found his footing and took her hand.  They raced through the last of the jungle and across the expanse of grassless yard between the jungle and the palace.  The sounds of demons grew louder.

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  • They gazed at each other, and Gabe shook his head, a smile spreading across his features.

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  • Fred motioned to the telephone across the room.

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  • Dean sped up to 80 miles an hour and turned across three lanes to an exit while the Ford tried vainly, but unsuccessfully, to follow.

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  • When Dean struck out at the alarm clock, he sent it flying across the room.

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  • Dean hadn't given that much thought but he remembered what Vinnie Baratto had said about the Maryland eastern shore and explained it was across the Chesapeake Bay.

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  • Cynthia Byrne's breasts stood firm against the lacy fabric covering them and he draped a towel across her chest as he strug­gled to unhook her bra from beneath her comatose body.

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  • He then draped a second towel across the lower part of her body and removed her panties, no "Thursday" cotton things, but small and white.

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  • Earlier he'd signed up to take his July vacation in Iowa, biking the 400 miles across that state on a seven-day bike tour known as "RAG­BRAI," named for the sponsoring Des Moines Register newspaper.

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  • He thought she would cry but instead she lay back on the grass, arms beneath her head, and after a time, began naming the shapes of the clouds passing across the sky.

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  • She raised on an elbow, a broad smile growing across her face.

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  • She comes across like a tough gal but she's really very sweet.

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  • Monica Cutler looked up from her desk, a broad smile spreading across her face, brightening up the bleakness of the cloudy day.

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  • Someone besides Dean and Fred was dogging Byrne across the country.

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  • The phone rang twice and Randy tripped as he dashed across the room to answer.

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  • In a flood of tears and half-controlled sobs she got to her feet, and handkerchief to her face, dashed across the room toward the entrance.

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  • Then she turned toward him and with a lightening swing slapped Dean across the face with a force that shocked him cold.

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  • Vinnie Baratto, the con, recognized that your husband was missing and got it into his head Jeff might have come across the money.

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  • As Dean entered the house, Sherlock Holmes was lecturing Watson in a voice sounding very much like Basil Rathbone while a radio across the room was play­ing soft music.

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  • There's a Burlington in Colorado, right across the border from Kansas!

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  • Then we played tag across the country chasing Byrne.

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  • It certainly was convenient—in the same building and across the hall from your apartment.

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  • She ran a hand across her expanding stomach.

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  • Up the hill to the house - across the well maintained lawn to the barn.

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  • The rabbit leaped into the air, and bolted across the field, his white tail visible above the tall grass with each bound.

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  • He picked up his luggage and strode across the room.

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  • He was starting the car as she ran across the porch and down the steps.

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  • He nodded, putting an arm across the back of the seat as he backed the car.

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  • The five of them raced across the pasture, toward the buffalo pen.

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  • Across the creek, on the hillside, two elk grazed contentedly.

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  • Once inside, he reached out and took her hand, pulling her across the car seat.

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  • Across from them was the log house — home.

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  • She ran a finger across the top of the potbellied stove and pulled away a sooty finger.

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  • She slapped him before he could get the word out — an open hand across the face as hard as she could hit.

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  • She wandered down stream to the place where they had drug huge slabs of stone to make a walkway across the creek.

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  • Rolling up her pants legs, she waded across the creek.

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  • Once across the creek, she pushed her way up the overgrown trail and across the field, pausing to watch a couple of ducks on the pond.

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  • She left the house and wandered across the field, taking in the beauty of the country.

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  • The ducks flapped their wings and splashed across the pond, finally becoming airborne.

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  • She closed the lid and jerked the suitcase off the bed, hefting it down the hall, across the living room and out the door.

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  • He kept his back to her, his arms across his chest and his face in one hand.

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  • Casper, Random and the foal followed them as they loped across the field to the buffalo shed.

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  • She obliged and he led her across the barn, telling her to stand still for a minute.

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  • He carefully placed the knife across his plate.

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  • He turned and trudged across the corral, his shoulders were slumped and his walk lacked its usual spring.

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  • For a full minute they exchanged emotions across the corral.

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  • For a moment he continued to stare at her, and then a smile slowly worked its way across the tortured features.

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  • She raced across the corral and threw herself into his open arms.

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  • Slowly she made her way across the room.

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  • The sun reflected across several large dents in the hood and roof.

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  • She rose and moved the food and wine dishes closer to the edge of the bed then lay across the top.

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  • It's possible, I guess, that someone's run across her and catalogued her.

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  • She hesitated then sat across from him.

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  • He was dressed in jeans and a casual button-down shirt that was snug across his shoulders and chest and loose over his abdomen.

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  • He's trying to capture it, Xander said from across the living area.

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  • The smile she plastered across her face was starting to falter.

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  • Why was she immune to the effect he clearly had on every other woman he ran across?

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  • Jessi said nothing and reached across with her left arm to take the coffee.

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  • She tossed her salad and stood in line to get him his coffee then walked across the parking lot to the Barnes and Noble.

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  • Their leader eyed a family of five walking across the aisle towards their car.

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  • He started the coffeemaker and faced her, folding his arms across his thick chest.

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  • He leaned across the kitchen, trapping her between his two arms.

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  • His other hand slid across her abdomen to rest at her stomach.

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  • Xander watched them both as they sat across from him in the spacious living area.

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  • She stared at the wall across from her, angry and frustrated.

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  • Instead, she grabbed a coffee and sat across the food court, within view.

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  • Jenn appeared in his peripheral then crossed to sit at the bench across from him.

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  • She crossed to the living room and tucked her legs beneath her as she sat across from him in an oversized, worn chair.

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  • Xander winked at the flustered woman across from him.

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  • After all, complete strangers showed up at their apartment and used magic to take them to some place halfway across the country.

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  • Jessi's arm was across his chest, her face nuzzled in the crook of his neck as she slept.

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  • Xander brushed his lips across hers once more then eased off her.

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  • A white desk crammed in a corner was covered with teen magazines, and a box of beads had spilled and scattered a rainbow across the carpet.

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  • She trailed her fingers across it until she felt the cool metal doorknob.

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  • Jessi struggled to keep from running across the road and grabbing her cousin.

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  • His muscular frame was tense, and moonlight played across his chiseled features.

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  • Darian's foot was across the Original Other's neck.

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  • He wanted to hear her whisper his name after they made love and flutter soft kisses with her full lips across his face, the way she had the other night.

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  • Jessi fluttered kisses across his face, ignoring the tears on hers.

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  • She rode across country with her brother, she went out shooting with Deschatres, she sat by the cottage doors on the long summer evenings and heard the flax-dressers tell their tales of witches and warlocks.

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  • The German populations of these lands seem in Roman times to have been scanty, and Roman subjects from the modern Alsace and Lorraine had drifted across the river eastwards.

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  • We know the line of this frontier which ran from the Main across the upland Odenwald to the upper waters of the Neckar and was defended by a chain of forts.

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  • He went with the first rush to Klondike in 1897 and tramped across the States and Canada, being in gaol more than once as a vagabond.

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  • The greater part of the state belongs to the western extension of the Brazilian plateau, across which, between the 14th and 16th parallels, runs the water-shed which separates the drainage basins of the Amazon and La Plata.

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  • The streets of Valletta, paved with stone, run along and across the ridge, and end on each side towards the water in steep flights of steps.

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  • Colonel Goddard with a Bengal army marched across the breadth of the peninsula from the valley of the Ganges to the western sea, and achieved almost without a blow the conquest of Gujarat.

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  • Marble terraces and balustrades surround the tank, and a marble causeway leads across the water to the temple, whose gilded walls, roof, dome and cupolas, with vivid touches of red curtains, are reflected in the still water.

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  • It consists of, first, a strip of mainland along the Bay of Bengal, extending from the An pass, across the main range, to the Ma-i River, and, secondly, the large islands of Ramree and Cheduba, with many others to the south, lying off the coast of Sandoway.

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  • The range of Mount Geraneia extends across the country from east to west, forming a barrier between continental Greece and the Peloponnesus.

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  • The shortest road across this range passes along the eastern side of the mountains, and the most difficult part is the celebrated Scironian rocks, the mythic home of the robber Sciron.

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  • In the spring of 328 Alexander crossed the Hindu Kush into Bactria and followed the retreat of Bessus across the Oxus and into Sogdiana (Bokhara).

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  • Just as in 335 he had crossed the Danube, so he now made one raid across the frontier river, the Jaxartes (Sir Dania), to teach the fear of his name to the outlying peoples of the steppe (summer 328).

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  • When he continued his progress eastwards across the Acesines, Porus was an active ally.

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  • Since then this pest has spread across the African continent and even reached Madagascar.

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  • Two rapid streams, Poesten Kill and Wynants Kill, flowing into the Hudson from the east, through deep ravines, furnish good water-power, which, with that furnished by the state dam across the Hudson here, is utilized for manufacturing purposes.

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  • The lake is nowhere of great depth, and about midway numerous mud-banks, marshes, islands and dense growths of aqueous plants stretch across its surface.

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  • One of the ancient trade routes across the Sahara - that from Tripoli to Kuka in Bornu - strikes the lake at its northwest corner, but this has lost much of its former importance.

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  • Evidence of this is to be found in the altitudes of the stations on the Buenos Aires and Pacific railway running a little north of west across the pampas to Mendoza.

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  • The three great rivers that form the La Plata system - the Paraguay, Parana and Uruguay - have their sources in the highlands of Brazil and flow southward through a great continental depression, two of them forming eastern boundary lines, and one of them, the Parana, flowing across the eastern part of the republic. The northern part of Argentina, therefore, drains eastward from the mountains to these rivers, except where some great inland depression gives rise to a drainage having no outlet to the sea, and except, also, in the " mesopotamia " region, where small streams flow westward into the Parana and eastward into the Uruguay.

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  • The dictator of Paraguay had quarrelled with Brazil for its intervention in the internal affairs of Uruguay, and he demanded free passage for his troops across refused, and alliance was formed between Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, for joint action against Lopez.

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  • Another shorter valley began near the present Jaffa gate and, taking an easterly direction, joined the Tyropoeon; while a third ravine passed across what is now the northern part of the Haram enclosure and fell into the valley of the Kidron.

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  • He constructed "Morton's Dyke" across the fens from Wisbech to Peterborough, repaired the episcopal palace at Hatfield and the school of canon law and St Mary's Church at Oxford.

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  • But they have been separated by the foundering of the Coral Sea and the Tasman Sea, which divided the continent of Australia from the islands of the Australasian festoon; and the foundering of the band across Australia, from the Gulf of Carpentaria, through western Queensland and western New South Wales, to the lower basin of the Murray, has separated the Archean areas of eastern and western Australia.

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  • A narrow Cambrian sea must have extended across central Australia from the Kimberley Goldfield in the north-west, through Tempe Downs and the Macdonnell chain in central Australia, to the South Australian highlands, central Victoria at Mansfield, and northern Tasmania.

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  • The Silurian system was marked by the retreat of the sea from central Australia; but the sea still covered a band across Victoria, from the coast to the Murray basin, passing to the east of Melbourne.

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  • Similar granitic intrusions occurred in New South Wales and Queensland, and built up a mountain chain, which ran north and south across the continent; its worn-down stumps now form the east Australian highlands.

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  • The Cretaceous period was initiated by the subsidence of a large area to the south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, whereby a Lower Cretaceous sea spread southward, across western Queensland, western New South Wales and the north-eastern districts of South Australia.

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  • The sea does not appear to have extended completely across Australia, breaking it into halves, for a projection from the Archean plateau of Western Australia extended as far east as the South Australian highlands, and thence probably continued eastward, till it joined the Victorian highlands.

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  • The supposed continent extended across the south pole, practically joining Australia and South America.

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  • Major Warburton had virtually raced across from the Macdonnell range in South Australia to the headwaters of the Oakover river on the northwest coast, without allowing himself sufficient time to note the characteristics of the country.

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  • After much negotiation the leader, Mr William Lane, a Brisbane journalist, decided on Paraguay, and he tramped across the continent, preaching a new crusade, and gathering in funds and recruits in his progress.

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  • To the placing in quarantine of the vessel which took him to Egypt is due the origin of his great conception of a canal across the isthmus of Suez.

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  • Their land became a recruiting ground for the Roman armies, and a base for expeditions across the Rhine.

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  • This middle kingdom formed a long strip stretching across Europe from the North Sea to Naples, and embraced the whole of the later Netherlands with the exception of the portion on the left bank of the Scheldt, which river was made the boundary of West Francia.

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  • Algiers maintains communication with Marseilles by a quick service of steamers, which run the 497 miles across the Mediterranean in twenty-eight to thirty hours.

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  • The tower of Notre Dame, dating from 1180, is a landmark across the dunes, and the church behind it, although a shell, merits inspection.

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  • Alva then advanced to meet the invaders with a large army, and at Jemmingen (July 21), with very slight loss, annihilated the levies of Louis, who himself escaped by swimming from the field across an estuary of the Ems. He now joined the army of his brother William, which had in October to beat a hasty retreat before Alva's superior skill.

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  • Then Louis, in company with his brothers William and Henry, made his way across the French frontier to the camp of the Huguenot leader, Admiral Coligny.

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  • These processes stretch across the body cavity to be inserted in the dorsal and ventral middle lines.

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  • Where the rail-gauge is narrow and great weight is not desired, blocking girders are provided across the under side of the truck; these are arranged so that, by means of wedges or screws, they can be made to increase the base.

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  • The southern boundary runs in a very irregular line across the central region of India, dividing the Rajputana states from a number of native states in Central India and Gujarat.

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  • Geologically considered, the country may be divided into three regions - a central, and the largest, comprising the whole width of the Aravalli system, formed of very old sub-metamorphic and gneissic rocks; an eastern region, with sharply defined boundary, along which the most ancient formations are abruptly replaced by the great basin of the Vindhyan strata, or are overlaid by the still more extensive spread of the Deccan trap, forming the plateau of Malwa; and a western region, of very ill-defined margin, in which, besides some rocks of undetermined age, it is more or less known or suspected that Tertiary and Secondary strata stretch across from Sind, beneath the sands of the desert, towards the flanks of the Aravallis.

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  • In depths beyond the reach of wave motion, and apart from suspension across a submarine gully, which will sooner or later result in a rupture of the cable, the most frequent cause of interruption is seismic or other shifting of the ocean bed, while in shallower waters and near the shore the dragging of anchors or 40 fishing trawls has been mostly responsible.

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  • In order to avoid this sparking, every local instrument in the British Postal Telegraph Department has a " spark " coil connected across the terminals of the electromagnet.

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  • In the receiver there is a strong electromagnet, excited by a local current, which has in its circuit two annular air gaps, across which the magnetic field is practically uniform and constant.

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  • The magnetic shunt (which is connected Magnetic across the receiving instrument) consists of a low resist- shunt.

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  • The receiving instrument is joined up across these ends in the usual manner.

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  • The Atlantic Telegraph Company was reconstituted as the AngloAmerican Telegraph Company with a capital of f600,000 and sufficient cable was ordered not only to lay a line across the ocean but also to complete the 1865 cable.

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  • These two cables did not have a very long life, that of 1865 breaking down in 1877 and that of 1866 in 1872, but by the later of these dates four other cables had been laid across the Atlantic, including one from Brest to Duxbury, Mass.

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  • James Bowman Lindsay of Dundee, between 1845 and 1854, reinvented and even patented Morse's method, and practically put the plan into operation for experimental purposes across the river Tay.

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  • Following on this he made an interesting experiment, using Morse's method, to connect the Isle of Wight telegraphically with the mainland, by conduction across the Solent in two places, during a temporary failure of the submarine cable in 1882 in that channel.

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  • Hence, when the coil at one fixed station was in action it generated high frequency alternating currents, which were propagated across the air gap between the ordinary telegraph wires and the metallic surfaces attached to one secondary terminal of the induction coil, and conveyed along the ordinary telegraph wires between station and moving train.

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  • If we consider the lines of magnetic force in the neighbourhood of the receiving antenna wire we shall see that they move across it, and thus create in it an electromotive force which acts upon the coherer or other sensitive device associated with it.

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  • In addition he added certain spark-generating coils across the contacts of the relay and tapper.

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  • If these spark balls are set at the right distance, then when the potential difference accumulates the antenna will be charged and at some stage suddenly discharged by the discharge leaping across the spark gap. This was Marconi's original method, and the plan is still used under the name of the direct method of excitation or the plain antenna.

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  • When this is the case, if discharges are made across the spark gap oscillations are excited in the closed circuit, and these induce other syntonic oscillations in the antenna circuit.

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  • In this case a closed condenser circuit is formed with a battery of Leyden jars, an inductance coil and a spark gap, and oscillations are excited in it by discharges created across the spark gap by an induction coil or transformer.

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  • In series with the tube is placed a single voltaic cell and a telegraphic relay, and Marconi added certain coils placed across the spark contacts of the relay to prevent the local sparks affecting the coherer.

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  • With this apparatus some of Marconi's earliest successes, such as telegraphing across the English Channel, were achieved, and telegraphic communication at the rate of fifteen words or so a minute established between the East Goodwin lightship and the South Foreland lighthouse, also between the Isle of Wight and the Lizard in Cornwall.

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  • Rutherford used this detector to make evident the passage of an electric or Hertzian wave for half a mile across Cambridge, England.

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  • It was completed in the summer of 1907, and on the 17th of October 1907 press messages and private messages were sent across the Atlantic in both directions.

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  • Across the arc is a transverse or radial magnetic field, and the electrodes are connected by an oscillatory circuit consisting of a condenser and inductance.

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  • At the receiving end are a similar antenna and resonant circuit, and a telephone is connected across one part of the latter through an automatic interrupting device called by Poulsen a " ticker."

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  • Hughes, while engaged in experiments upon a Bell telephone in an electric circuit, discovered that a peculiar noise was produced whenever two hard electrodes, such as two wires, were - drawn across each other, or were made to touch each other with a variable degree of firmness.

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  • In the earliest telephone switchboards the lines were connected to vertical conducting strips, across which were placed a series of similar horizontal strips in such a manner that any horizontal could be connected to any line strip by the insertion of a plug into holes provided in the strips for the purpose.

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  • This apparatus has two coils, one of which, connected across the line, is provided for the purpose of projecting the shutter, while the other is intended for its restoration and is joined in a local circuit arranged to be closed when a plug is inserted in any one of the associated jacks.

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  • The conditions permit of the circulation of the alternating currents of low periodicity, which are used for operating the bells, but in respect of the battery the circuit is open until the subscriber lifts the receiver, when the hook switch, thus released, joins the transmitter with one winding of an induction coil in series across the circuit.

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  • In one arrangement, now in extensive use, each telephone set is fitted with a relay of high inductance which is bridged across the circuit in series with a condenser.

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  • Attempts have been made to improve submarine cables in this respect, and in 1906 a short cable " loaded " with Pupin coils was laid across Lake Constance.

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  • This great valley—one of the most considerable on the southern side of the Alps—has attracted special attention, in ancient as well as modern times, from its leading to two of the most frequented passes across the great mountain chain—the Great and the Little St Bernard—the former diverging at Aosta, and crossing the main ridges to the north into the valley of the Rhone, the other following a more westerly direction into Savoy.

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  • Giacomo, which runs nearly north and south from the pass of the Splügen, thus affording one of the most direct lines of communication across the Alps.

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  • Nor do the highest summits form a continuous ridge of great altitude for any considerable distance; they are rather a series of groups separated by tracts of very inferior elevation forming natural passes across the range, and broken in some places (as is the case in almost all limestone countries) by the waters from the upland valleys turning suddenly at right angles, and breaking through the mountain ranges which bound them.

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  • From Beneventum, another important road centre, the Via Appia itself ran south-east through the mountains past Venusia to Tarentum on the south-west coast of the heel, and thence across Calabria to Brundusium, while Trajans correction of it, following an older mule-track, ran north-east through the mountains and then through the lower ground of Apulia, reaching the coast at Barium.

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  • She was the last heiress of the great house of Canossa, whose fiefs stretched from Mantua across Lombardy, passed the Apennines, included the Tuscan plains, and embraced a portion of the duchy of Spoleto.

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  • Having ruined his rebellious city, but not tamed her spirit, Frederick withdrew across the Alps.

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  • In the north it is deeply cut by men with pig-arrows in lines across the body.

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  • Their canoes are simply hollowed out of trunks with the adze and in no other way, and it is the smaller ones which are outrigged; they do not last long and are not good sea-boats, and the story of raids on Car Nicobar, out of sight across a stormy and sea-rippled channel, must be discredited.

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  • In the end the Marcomanni were driven out of Pannonia, and were almost destroyed in their retreat across the Danube.

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  • A layer of cork is regularly formed in most Phanerogams across the base of the petiole before leaf fall, so as to cover the wound caused by the separation of the leaf from the stem.

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  • Leaves respond in another way to the same influence, placing themselves across the path of the beam of light.

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  • It is common round the British and Irish coasts, and generally distributed along the shores of the North Sea, extending across the Atlantic to the coast of North America.

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  • Thence he visited the African coast, touching at Mombasa and Quiloa, and then sailed across to Ormuz and the Persian Gulf.

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  • The discoveries of Columbus awakened a spirit of enterprise in Spain which continued in full force for a century; adventurers flocked eagerly across the Atlantic, and discovery followed Sp aniards discovery in rapid succession.

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  • From Cape San Lucas Cavendish steered across the Pacific, seeing no land until he reached the Ladrone Islands.

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  • The voyage of Drake across the Pacific was preceded by that of Alvaro de Mendana, who was despatched from Peru in 1567 to discover the great Antarctic continent which was believed to extend far northward into the South sea, the search In Pacific. for which now became one of the leading motives of Pacific. exploration.

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  • After a voyage of eighty days across the Pacific, Mendana discovered the Solomon Islands; and the expedition returned in safety to Callao.

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  • In 1579 Christopher Burroughs built a ship at Nizhniy Novgorod and traded across the Caspian to Baku; and in 1598 Sir Anthony and Robert Shirley arrived in Persia, and Robert was afterwards sent by the shah to Europe as his ambassador.

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  • In 1715 Fathers Desideri and Freyre made their way from Agra, across the Himalayas, to Lhasa, and the Capuchin Friar Orazio della Penna resided in that city from 1735 until 1747.

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  • In 1721 Jacob Roggewein was despatched on a voyage of some importance across the Pacific by the Dutch West India Company, during which he discovered Easter Island on the 6th of April 1722.

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  • Actual or projected routes for telegraph cables across the deep sea have also been sounded with extreme accuracy in many cases; but beyond these lines of sounding the vast spaces of the ocean remain unplumbed save for the rare researches of scientific expeditions, such as those of the " Challenger," the " Valdivia," the " Albatross " and the " Scotia."

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  • The slope of the river bed diminishes until the plain compels the river to move slowly, swinging in meanders proportioned to its size, and gradually, controlled by the flattening land, ceasing to transport material, but raising its banks and silting up its bed by the dropped sediment, until, split up and shoaled, its distributaries struggle across its delta to the sea.

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  • The squamosals form the posterior outer margin of the orbits and are frequently continued into two lateral downward processes across the temporal fossa.

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  • It has a bridge across the Cali, and a number of religious and public edifices.

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  • The greater portion, however, of the numerous bands which visit the British Islands in autumn and winter doubtless come from the Continent - perhaps even from far to the eastward, since its range stretches across Asia to Japan, in which country it is as favourite a cage-bird as with us.

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  • In the 16th century the city was the strongest Spanish fortress in the New World, excepting Cartagena, and gold and silver were brought hither by ship from Peru and were carried across the Isthmus to Chagres, but as Spain's fleets even in the Pacific were more and more often attacked in the 17th century, Panama became less important, though it was still the chief Spanish port on the Pacific. In 1671 the city was destroyed by Henry Morgan, the buccaneer; it was rebuilt in 1673 by Alfonzo Mercado de Villacorta about five miles west of the old site and nearer the roadstead.

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  • The contagion spread very rapidly, extending as far as the Rhine provinces, and, across Germany, into Bohemia.

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  • Sharp; in the stag-beetle larva a series of short tubercles on the hind-leg is drawn across the serrate edge of a plate on the haunch of the intermediate legs, while in the Passalid grub the modified tip of the hind-leg acts as a scraper, being so shortened that it is useless for locomotion, but highly specialized for producing sound.

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  • It appears, however, that in January the cyclones mostly travel across N.W.

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  • Consequently a company was formed by the Russian government in 1896 to construct, with the consent of the Chinese government, a railway from Vladivostok across Manchuria to Karymskaya near Chita in Transbaikalia.

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  • Another line of great strategic importance was built across the Transcaspian territory to Ferghana.

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  • The nucleus of the invading horde was a small pastoral tribe in Mongolia, the chief of which, known subsequently to Europe as Jenghiz Khan, became a mighty conqueror and created a vast empire stretching from China, across northern and central Asia, to the shores of the Baltic and the valley of the Danube - a heterogeneous state containing many nationalities held together by purely administrative ties and by an enormous military force.

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  • A transcontinental line was long ago undertaken across South America from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso, where the continent is only about goo m.

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  • Naturally the company named does not reach all of these points, but its line across the Andes supplies the indispensable link of communication, in the absence of which the east coast towns and the west coast towns have hitherto been as widely separated as if they had been located on different continents-indeed, far more widely separated in point of time and of freight charges than Great Britain and the United States.

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  • On the one hand he may make the line follow the natural inequalities of the ground as nearly as may be, avoiding the elevations and depressions by curves; or on the other he may aim at making it as nearly straight and level as possible by taking it through the elevations in cuttings or tunnels and across the depressions on embankments or bridges.

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  • An embankment-bank, or fill, is the reverse of a cutting, being an artificial mound of earth on which the railway is taken across depressions in the surface of the ground.

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  • In cases where the route of a line runs across a river or other piece of water so wide that the construction of a bridge is either impossible or would be more costly than is warranted by the volume of traffic, the expedient is sometimes adopted of carrying the wagons and carriages across bodily with their loads on train ferries, so as to avoid the inconvenience and delay of transshipment.

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  • Such train ferries arc common in America, especially on the Great Lakes, and exist at several places in Europe, as in the Baltic between Denmark and Sweden and Denmark and Germany, and across the Straits of Messina.

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  • They are nearly always placed transversely, across the direction of the lines, the longitudinal position such as was adopted in connexion with the broad gauge on the Great Western in England having been abandoned except in special cases.

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  • To avoid the delay thus caused the branch line which would occasion the diamond crossing if it were taken across on the level is sometimes carried over the main line by an over-bridge (" flying junction ") or under it by an under-bridge (" burrowing junction ").

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  • Cars of this saloon type have been introduced into England for use on railways which have adopted electric traction, but owing to the narrower loading gauge of British railways it is not usually possible to seat four persons across the width of the car for its whole length, and at the ends the seats have to be placed along the sides of the vehicle.

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  • Halfway across this, on an artificial island, is the Rathaus (rebuilt 1744-1756).

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  • Until the completion of the trans-continental railway in 1869, wagon trains were the only means of transporting the products of the mines across the desert.

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  • Ridgeway (Early Age of Greece, 1901) considers that the Belgic tribes were Cimbri, "who had moved directly across the Rhine into north-eastern Gaul."

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  • To the two viaducts across the valley of the Cuyahoga river were added three others, of which the most noteworthy is the High Level bridge, connecting Superior avenue on the east with Detroit avenue on the west.

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  • The so-called Esna barrage across the Nile (built 1906-1908) is 30 m.

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  • The atmosphere is also purified by the fierce te7nporales, or "northers," which occasionally sweep down over the Gulf and across this open region.

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  • The oldest permanent settlements in the state are (New) Biloxi (c. 1712), situated across the bay from Old Biloxi and nearer to the Gulf, and Natchez or Fort Rosalie (1716).

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  • The " Fall Line," the boundary between the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont Plateau, has a very irregular course across North Carolina, but lies in a general S.W.

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  • It rises near the peak of Itatiaya, on the northern slopes of the Mantiqueira, and flows north-west and west across the Minas plateau, receiving several large tributaries from the south.

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  • Its source is in the Serra da Canastra, and its general course across the state is north by east, during which it receives the Paracatu, Urucuia, Pardo and Carinhanha from the west and the Verde Grande and das Velhas from the east.

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  • These mountains, which include the highest peaks in the world, rise, along their entire length, far above the line of perpetual snow, and few of the passes across the main ridges are at a less altitude than 15,000 or 16,000 feet.

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  • This great mass of mountain, constituting as it does a complete natural line of division across a large part of the continent, will form a convenient basis from which to work, in proceeding, as will now be done, to give a general view of the principal countries contained in Asia.

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  • They possibly owe their existence to the volcanic agencies which are known to extend from Sumatra across this part of the Indian Ocean.

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  • The area between the northern border of the Persian high lands and the Caspian and Aral Seas is a nearly desert low-lying plain, extending to the foot of the north - western extremity of the great Tibeto-Himalayan mountains, and prolonged east- Trans- ward up the valleys of the Oxus (Amu-Darya) and Caspian Jaxartes (Syr-Darya), and northward across the country re ior, and of the Kirghiz to the south-western border of Siberia.

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  • Here the Tibetan mountains unite with the line of elevation which stretches across the continent from the Pacific, and which separates Siberia from the region commonly spoken of under the name of central Asia.

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  • The more northern parts of Mongolia are between 4000 and 6000 ft., and no portion of the route across the desert between the Chinese frontier and Kiakhta is below 3000 ft.

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  • Ex Ploration The progress of geodetic surveys in Russia had long ago extended across the European half of the great empire, St Petersburg being connected with Tiflis on the southern slopes of the Caucasus by a direct system of triangulation carried out with the highest scientific precision.

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  • In 1885 Arthur Douglas Carey and Andrew Dalgleish, following more or less the tracks of Prjevalsky, contributed much that was new to the map of Asia; and in 1886 Captain (afterwards Sir Francis) Younghusband completed a most adventurous journey across the heart of the continent by crossing the Murtagh, the great mountain barrier between China and Kashmir.

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  • Captain William Gill, of the Indian survey, first made his way across China to eastern Tibet and Burma, and subsequently delighted the world with his story of the River of Golden Sand.

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  • It was a portion of a great land-mass which probably extended across the Indian Ocean and was at one time united with the south of Africa.

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  • The cyclones of the Bay of Bengal appear to originate over the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and are commonly propagated in a north-westward direction, striking the east coast of the Indian peninsula at various points, and then often advancing with an easterly tendency over the land, and passing with extreme violence across the delta of the Ganges.

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  • A similar affinity exists between the life of the southern parts of Europe and that in the zone of Asia extending from the Mediterranean across to the Himalaya and northern China.

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  • The name of Aryan has been given to the races speaking languages derived from, or akin to, the ancient form of Sanskrit, who now occupy the temperate zone extending from the Mediterranean, across the highlands of Asia Minor, Persia and Afghanistan, to India.

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  • By the Kabul valley route, which includes at its head the group of passes across the Hindu Kush which extend from the Khawak to the Kaoshan, all those central Asian hordes, be they Sacae, Yue-chi, Jats, Goths or Huns, who were driven towards the rich plains of the south, entered the Punjab.

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  • The dominions of the latter extended across central Asia to northern India, but were dismembered by the attacks of the Kitans, whence the name Cathay.

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  • The fall and rise of the road across the valley before the construction of the viaduct (1869) was abrupt and inconvenient.

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  • This is the typical arrangement, which is exhibited in the majority of the Polychaeta and Oligochaeta; in these the successive chambers of the coelom are separated by the intersegmental septa, sheets of muscle fibres extending from the body wall to the gut and thus forming partitions across the body.

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  • This railway, together with the driving roads over the Caucasus mountains via the Mamison pass (the Ossetic military road) and the Darial pass (the Georgian military road), and the route across the Black Sea to Poti or Batum are the chief means of communication between southern Russia and Transcaucasia.

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  • It is served by the Chicago & North-Western, and the Wisconsin Central railways; by ferry across the lake to Frankfort, Mich., and Ludington, Mich.; by the Ann Arbor and the Pere Marquette railways; and by the Goodrich line of lake steamers.

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  • Large pits are dug across the line of advance of these great insect armies to stop them when in the larval or wingless stage, and even huge bonfires are lighted to check their flight when adult.

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  • The cardinals did not trust themselves across the border; their messengers, however, were courteously received by Bruce, but with a firm refusal to admit the papal bulls into his kingdom because not addressed to him as king.

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  • Through its situation on the Severn it was connected with the sea, and in 1250 a bridge, the only one between it and Worcester, was built across the river and added greatly to the commerce of the town.

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  • Thus the base of the gill passes in a slanting direction across the right-hand side of the kidney, the posterior end being dorsal to the apex of the gland, and the anterior end ventral to the right-hand corner.

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  • The Expeditionary Force was conveyed across the Channel in perfect safety, and its communications safeguarded; and the German mercantile marine was soon cleared from the seas.

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  • Neotropical and distinctively Sonoran insects mingle with members of the Holoarctic fauna across a wide " transition zone " in North America.

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  • The maxillo-palatals are bound together (whence the name of the " Suborder ") across the middle line, either directly or by the ossification of the nasal septum.

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  • Beyond the Samana Suk lies the pass, known as the Chagru Kotal, across which the Tirah Expedition marched in 1897.

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  • The country is altogether difficult of access, and only one military route leads up from the river Terek, while every one of the eleven passes known across the Caucasus is a mere bridle-path.

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  • The canals too were guarded by chains stretched across their mouths and by towers in some cases, as, for example, in the case of the Torresella Canal, which takes its name from these defence works.

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  • The national government began in 1825 to extend the National Road across Ohio from Bridgeport, opposite Wheeling, West Virginia, through Zanesville and Columbus, and completed it to Springfield in 1837.

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  • Chambo in turn receives the waters of a larger lake - Abai, Abaya, Pagade or Regina Margherita - through the river Walo, across a plain only 2 m.

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  • In three arduous campaigns, the two first of which were conducted by the emperor himself while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenus, the Turks were defeated in detail and finally (1070) driven across the Euphrates.

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  • Their caravans (auvoeiac) travelled right across the desert to the great entrepots on the Euphrates, Vologesias, about 55 m.

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  • This light railway runs at a considerable elevation (some 700 ft.), commanding a view across the valley and lake of Tan y Bwlch.

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  • Further, a powerful ice-breaker is used to ferry trains across from Listvinichnoe to Misovaya.

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  • A steel bridge across the Missouri (built in 1872; rebuilt in 1906) connects the city with Elwood, Kansas (pop. 1905, 711), and is used by two railways.

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  • Kirin, the capital of the province, occupies a magnificent position, being surrounded on the north, west and south by a semicircular range of mountains with the broad stream of the Sungari flowing across the front.

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  • Across the river is Rock Falls (pop. in 1900, 2176), practically a suburb of Sterling, with foundries and machine-shops and manufactories of agricultural implements, barbed wire and bolts and rivets.

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  • This gable is tilted eastwards, and its two long slopes are defined by bordering mountain chains which run across its medial ridge; the main Syrian streams are those which follow those slopes between the 'chains, thus running either north or south for most of their courses, and only finding their way to the western sea by making sharp elbows at the last.

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  • Highroads, maintained by the government, traverse every part of the country, and bridges have been built across the Caledon.

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  • In those intended for alternating currents, the main current through the movable coil, whether consisting of one turn or more than one turn, is carried by a wire rope, of which each component strand is insulated by silk covering, to prevent the inductive action from altering the distribution of the current across the transverse section of the conductor.

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  • In the Malay Peninsula itself there is abundant evidence, ethnological and philological, of at least two distinct immigrations of people of the Malayan stock, the earlier incursions, it is probable, taking place from the eastern archipelago to the south, the later invasion spreading across the Straits of Malacca from Sumatra at a comparatively recent date.

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  • Many ingenious devices for forming bars have been produced; but generally a strong frame is used, across which steel wires are stretched at distances equal to the size of the bars to be made, the blocks being first cut into slabs and then into bars.

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  • Rockford is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop. In and near the city there are two hospitals and three sanatoriums. Manufacturing is facilitated by good water-power, supplied by a dam across the Rock river about 800 ft.

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  • They represent the Early English style at its best, and the view across the great transept is unsurpassed for architectural effect.

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  • The left branch is appreciably noticed near Odessa and the north-west corner; the right branch sweeps past the Crimea, strikes the Caucasian shore (where it comes to the surface running across, but not into, the south-east corner of the Black Sea), and finally disperses flowing westwards along the northern coast of Asia Minor between Cape Jason and 1 The early Greek navigators gave it the epithet of axenus, i.e.

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  • The harbours are connected with the town by an embankment and railway built across a shallow, dry at low water save for a narrow channel.

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  • The system reached from Kentucky and Virginia across Ohio, and from Maryland across Pennsylvania and New York, to New England and Canada, and as early as 1817 a group of anti-slavery men in southern Ohio had helped to Canada as many as moo slaves.

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  • The state owes to this ruler the opening up of new railways across the great desert, which was formerly passable only by camels, and the tapping of the valuable coal deposits that occur in the territory.

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  • The river is not deep and can be forded in many places; the banks are fringed with thick bush and dom-palms. At the junction of the Ganale and the Web the river is swift-flowing and 85 yards across; just below the Daua confluence it is 200 yds.

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  • It has a magnificent palace, which is visible from far across the Bikanir desert; it was built in 1882 by Nawab Sadik Mahommed Khan.

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  • The bridge across the Narenta, at Konjica, is said to date from the 10th century.

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  • At first eminently successful, he drove the Austrians across the Danube, recapturing Nish, Vidin, Semendria and Belgrade; repulses were also inflicted on the Venetians and the Russians.

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  • The nocturnal expedition across the Hellespont by which Suleiman, the son of Orkhan, won Galipoli and therewith a foothold in Europe for his race, was shared in and celebrated in verse by a Turkish noble or chieftain named Ghazi Fazil.

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  • All this, and the almost mutinous discontent of his generals and his enemies of the court circle, shook his resolution of acting as anvil for the Russians, of whose delay also he was aware, and about the 8th of Octoberhedetermined to march out north-eastward across the French lines of communication and save his sovereign's army by taking refuge if necessary in Saxony.

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  • Hohenlohe now brought up the remainder of his command, but in the meanwhile the French had poured across the neck between the Landgrafenberg and the main plateau, and the troops of Soult and Augereau were working up the ravines on either hand.

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  • Bernadotte, we have seen, had marched to Dornburg, or rather to a point overlooking the ford across the Saale at the village of that name, and reached there in ample time to intervene, on either field.

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  • The moment news of their activity reached him, whilst still in pursuit of Sir John Moore, he despatched letters to all the members of the Confederation warning them that their contingents might soon be required, and at the same time issued a series of decrees to General Clarke, his war minister, authorizing him to call up the contingent of 1810 in advance, and directing him in detail to proceed with the formation of 4th and 5th battalions for all the regiments across the Rhine.

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  • On the following morning the French reached Regensburg and at once proceeded to assault its medieval walls, but the Austrian garrison bravely defended it till the last of the stragglers was safely across on the north bank.

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  • The question then arose whether the retreat was to be continued across the main stream or not, and for the second time in his career Napoleon assembled his generals to take their opinion.

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  • But the French army was already completely out of hand, and the degree to which the panic of a crowd can master even the strongest instinct of the individual is shown by the conduct of the fugitives who crowded over the bridges, treading hundreds under foot, whilst all the time the river was easily fordable and mounted men rode backwards and forwards across it.

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  • As soon as possible the army pressed on in pursuit, Ney being sent across the Elbe to turn the position of the allies at Dresden.

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  • This threat forced the latter to evacuate the town and retire over the Elbe, after blowing up the stone bridge across the river.

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  • This march remains one of the most extraordinary in history, for the bulk of his forces moved, mainly in mass and across country, 90 m.

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  • The allies, however, continued to retreat, but unfortunately Vandamme, with his single corps and unsupported, issued out of the mountains on their flank, threw himself across their line of retreat near Kulm, and was completely overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers (29th).

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  • About noon the 2nd of February Napoleon attacked them, but the weather was terrible, and the ground so heavy that his favourite artillery, the mainstay of his whole system of warfare, was useless and in the drifts of snow which at intervals swept across the field, the columns lost their direction and many were severely handled by the Cossacks.

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  • Marmont and Mortier with what troops they could rally took up a position on Montmartre heights to oppose them, but seeing further resistance to be hopeless they gave way on the 31st of March, just as Napoleon, with the wreck of the Guards and a mere handful of other detachments, was hurrying across the rear of the Austrians towards Fontainebleau to join them.

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  • Before the invasion was taken in hand as a serious policy, there had been at least a profession of a belief that the flotilla could push across the Channel during a calm.

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  • Formerly the British government maintained a camel-post across the desert to Damascus.

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  • In 1908 an irade sanctioned the extension across the Taurus to Adana, and so to Helif near Mardin (522 m.).

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  • In the Tagharat pass Mr Maw was the only one of the party who reached the watershed; but from Jebel Tezah a good view was obtained southward across the great valley of the Sias to the Anti-Atlas, which appeared to be from 9000 to io,000 ft.

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  • Dr Oskar Lenz in 1879-1880 surveyed a part of the Great Atlas north of Tarudant, determined a pass south of Iligh in the Anti-Atlas, and penetrated thence across the Sahara to Timbuktu.

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  • Such were parts of the first and middle ranges, crossed once; three routes over the Great Atlas, which was, moreover, followed along both flanks for nearly its whole length; and six journeys across the Anti-Atlas, with a general survey of the foot of this range and several passages over the Jebel Bani.

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  • A submarine ridge, about 300 fathoms deep at its deepest, unites Greenland with Iceland (across Denmark Strait), the Faeroes and Scotland.

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  • A similar submarine ridge unites it with the Cumberland Peninsula of Baffin Land, across Davis Strait.

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  • These beds, as well as the Cretaceous series, from which they are as yet only imperfectly distinguished, are associated with sheets of basalt, which penetrate them in great dikes, and in some places, owing to the wearing away of the softer sedimentary rocks, stand out in long walls running across the beds.

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