How To Use Athwart In A Sentence
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Grenada lay athwart vital US sea lanes, thus threatening all transatlantic trade.
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She is divided into seven watertight compartments by athwartship bulkheads.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
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Longitudinal stringers are fir encased in fiberglass, and athwartship bulkheads are construction-grade exterior plywood.
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The 16 day at eight of the clocke we set forward, and sayled vntill we came athwart Alburrough, and there stayed that night.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Appleby, the county town, suffered greatly from Scottish raids, since it was athwart an easy line of advance across Stainmore towards Durham and York.
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I had duly weighed, my first idea was to dart head first athwart this intrigue in which my dishonour was a certainty.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
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It slows change by allowing a resolute minority to delay - to stand athwart history shouting stop.
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‘We're so happy this restaurant is here,’ confided another matriarch when I inquired about the twisty little phyllo-pastry purse athwart her salad of Asian pear and gleaming field greens.
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Promptly followed the dingy train's short run up the shore of the New Canal, and then its stop athwart St. Charles St.eet, under no roof, amid no throng, without one huzza or cry of welcome, and the prompt dispersal of the outwardly burdenless wanderers, in small knots afoot, up-town, down-town, many of them trying to say over again those last words from the chief hero of their four years 'trial by fire.
Kincaid's Battery
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John Oxenham, in the _Bear_ frigate, could sail "Eastwards towards Tolu, to see what store of victuals would come athwart his halse.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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Then Sir Guy rose gently and laid his sword athwart the stream from bank to bank; so the weasel passed over the sword, as it had been a bridge, and having made his way to a hole at the foot of the hill on the other side, went in thereat.
Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People
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Not coincidentally, this rift is deepening even as Gujarat booms economically, with brand-new malls, multi plexes, highways, and private ports transforming it into a pulsing region-state athwart Indian Ocean trade routes.
India’s New Face
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Drives were at the ends of cross-bars athwartships amidship, turning the dumbbell into a giant jack.
Passage at Arms
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William F. Buckley's upstart conservative magazine, National Review, made its debut in 1955 with the now-famous opening line that it "stands athwart history, yelling Stop.
The Non-Economist's Economist
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That was part of the necessary pattern, as was that he would stand athwart her when that time arrived.
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An athwartships support that holds the shrouds away from the mast.
Sailing Fundamentals
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Rather, the dominant strain of principled conservatism has stood athwart history yelling, ‘Slow down!’
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Together they stood athwart any measure that smacked of political centralization.
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His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences.
Madame Bovary
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In the self-same hour it was that Zeus changed the radiant courses of the stars, the light of the sun, and the joyous face of dawn, and drave his car athwart the western sky with fervent heat from heaven's fires, while northward fled the rain-clouds, and Ammon's strand grew parched and faint and void of dew, when it was robbed of heaven's genial showers.
Electra
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Then I caught a glimpse of the quartermaster whirling the spokes of our wheel, and over went our helm to lay us athwart the forefoot of the 'Serapis', where we might rake and rush her decks.
Richard Carvel — Complete
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The dinette transforms into a 7’ double bed athwartship with lots of space above it for gymnastics.
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He was quite alone — for his coachman was ill in bed — and there was nothing to be seen on either hand but a drifting mystery of hedge running athwart the yellow glare of his lamps, and nothing to hear but the clitter-clatter of his horses and the gride and hedge echo of his wheels.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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O, that’s a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose: but all’s brave that youth mounts and folly guides.
As You Like It
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Louis XIthat in defatigable workman, who commenced on so large a scale the demolition of the feudal edifice, continued by Richelieu and Louis XIV to the advantage of royalty, and completed by Mirabeau to the advantage of the peopleLouis XI had done his utmost to break up this network of seigneuries which covered Paris, by casting violently athwart it two or three ordinances of general police.
IV. An Awkward Friend. Book X
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Unfortunately, without the ‘Language Police’ standing athwart language liberalization, every usage would slip into the dictionary.
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Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly with mine.
Much Ado About Nothing
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It ran from north to south and thus lay squarely athwart their route.
THE LONGEST WAY HOME
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O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly guides.
As You Like It
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Not coincidentally, this rift is deepening even as Gujarat booms economically, with brand-new malls, multi plexes, highways, and private ports transforming it into a pulsing region-state athwart Indian Ocean trade routes.
India’s New Face
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In any case, the belief that memorials should endure, and serve as warning and beacon to successive generations, runs athwart the commitment to a particular segment of the public and its expressive needs.
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The beams on these boats ran athwartship, rested on sides and bulkheads, and ranged from 6 by 10-in. to 10 by 12-in., spaced 2 ft. apart, and dressed to give a convex surface to the deck, which was usually 3 in., in some cases 4 in., in thickness, and made up of narrow plank from 4 to 6 in. in width.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157
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As Harry made clear, being different meant neither better nor inferior, but athwart.
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The black and blue marks athwart the weald, which now barely is so stripped, indicate the presence of sylvious beltings.
Finnegans Wake
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The rudder freed itself, but the propeller was found to be athwartship, having been forced into that position by the floe some time after August 1.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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When it comes to its language, its cinema, and now its music, France has long stood athwart history crying ‘Stop!’
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The White Silence, for the moment driven to the rimming forest, seemed ever crushing inward; the stars danced with great leaps, as is their wont in the time of the Great Cold; while the Spirits of the Pole trailed their robes of glory athwart the heavens.
The Son of the Wolf
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-The purpose of conservatism is to stand athwart history--William F. Buckley, Jr.
Paul Abrams: 3 Key Strategic Ingredients for the President's Get America Working Plan
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Like other empires of the past century, it has chosen to live not prudently, in peace and prosperity, but as a massive military power athwart an angry, resistant globe.
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There are, I believe, two common layouts -- in one case there is just one main fuel tank, athwartships and attached to the for'ard bulkhead, with a generator or generators on one side of the engine and batteries on the other, plus a water-tank to port and another to starboard: or there could be a fuel tank on either side with the water-tank up front.
Santorini
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I believe, the mortification he felt at the Arabs having licked us gave him more pain than the damage done to his legs by the ball of the matchlock, which had taken him athwartship through the fleshy part of his understandings -- breaking no bones, but crippling him all the same.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
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It was a little like John Kerry's anti-Vietnam protest at the Capitol in 1971, utilizing the most stilted Pentagonese jargon to describe demonstrations "athwart hostile infiltration" of the Congress, and so forth.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement
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To bring the compass needle back to North it would be necessary to move up nearer the compass dial the fore-and-aft magnet (shown below), whose magnetism would act on the compass needle on this heading of the ship exactly as the athwartship magnet acted on the compass needle when the ship was headed North:
Lectures in Navigation
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The line used to control the forward or athwartships movement of a sail.
Sailing Fundamentals
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An athwartship line of armor runs from the water line to the barbettes, resting upon the protective deck.
Marvels of Modern Science
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The flight from Paris after their father's death, the escape to England, the refuge at a Brighton hotel -- the sudden projecture of Hugh Fraser athwart their humble lives.
A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story
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To the south, athwart the mountain's lower slope, was a maze of byways and ramshackle housing for the native population.
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They can, however, have happier endings once enough people stand athwart the system, and yell stop.
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He took his hand off the hilt of his dagger at last, though still his eyes were fixed athwart the city.
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The old men pose athwart a water wheel.
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She tells me they're giving an award to the senator because he stands athwart conventional wisdom on many issues.
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The berths of the nations run athwartship, or north and south as the great ark is anchored.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
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O, thats a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose.
Act III. Scene IV. As You Like It
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I glance in the mirror and find, to my disappointment, that she's still athwart the bike.
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The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital.
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It pretends to be pro-gay but stands athwart the path to full equality and social acceptance, crying, ‘No, no, don't go there’.
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Toledo, I must needs confess and acknowledge that veritably the devils cannot be killed or die by the stroke of a sword, I do nevertheless avow and maintain, according to the doctrine of the said diabology, that they may suffer a solution of continuity (as if with thy shable thou shouldst cut athwart the flame of a burning fire, or the gross opacous exhalations of a thick and obscure smoke), and cry out like very devils at their sense and feeling of this dissolution, which in real deed I must aver and affirm is devilishly painful, smarting, and dolorous.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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At a time when America's elites said that the United States was in an irreversible decline, and the rest of us should just get used to it, Ronald Reagan stood athwart what was then considered the tide of history and said: ‘No.’
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The projected area looking forward is 22 square ft. and the projected area looking athwartship 22.84 square feet.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
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The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance.
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Each stateroom would then have been about 7 feet long fore and aft and could have contained four athwartship berths.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80
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The bunk should not be too wide: one rolls so in rough weather; of course it should not be athwartships, if avoidable.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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But the greatest relief of all was to discover that the apartment contained a bathroom and a latrine — for, as the agent gleefully explained, the insula lay right athwart one of Rome’s main sewers, and was legally supplied with an adjutage to the water supply.
The First Man in Rome
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At some points in history, the role of conservatism has been to be reactive and to stand athwart history yelling ‘stop’, Rove says.
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As your boat veers, will your lines, bow-roller, cleats and fairleads stay in place under thousands of pounds of athwartship load?
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Deep Jeep could easily outrun J.J., and Bradley had no difficulty in placing his vehicle athwart the robot's precomputed track.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks
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Ultimately though, what is more intriguing about this work is the manner in which it runs athwart of some contemporary photography to instead de-emphasize overt expressivity.
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Finnegans Wake
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Ultimately though, what is more intriguing about this work is the manner in which it runs athwart of some contemporary photography to instead de-emphasize overt expressivity.
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Resting upon the water-belt and the athwartship or diagonal armor, and following the same direction is a layer of armor usually somewhat thinner which is called the lower case-mate armor; it extends up to the lower edge of the broadside gun ports, and resting upon it in turn is the upper case-mate armor, following the same direction, and forming the protection for the broadside battery.
Marvels of Modern Science
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While Matsya lay athwart the route from the northern lands to the ports on the western coast, it was not a place of great enterprise.
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At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Others again DID reach the upper decks, found their way to the nearest fore or aft lifeboat blocked by rolls of athwartships barbed wire, and went below again to find some passage which would bring them up to a lifeboat no further away than twenty yards from where they stood.
The Lonely Sea
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The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital.
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The solar flares and the corona of the sun danced athwart the planet's silhouette.
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The evening sun, shooting athwart a clear expanse of water, between eighteen and twenty leagues in circumference, lighted up all the towns and villages, and towered castles, and spiry convents, that enriched the rising shores; brought out all the various tints of cultivation, and coloured with beamy purple the mountains which on every side formed the majestic background of the landscape.
The Italian
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As Filmer went up and down that room wrestling with his intolerable dilemma he went first towards the neat little rifle athwart the blotting-pad and then towards the neat little red label
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
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I call it athwart parking rather than parallel parking.
Fatal Error
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But to place that tribute athwart the vista of the mall would be the act of a country that no longer understands its own history.
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At high noon the sun, without raising its rim above the southern horizon, threw a suggestion of fire athwart the heavens, then quickly drew it back.
The White Silence
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Glad to hear it," returned the other, who could read our name astern as she lay athwart us.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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May I be thrown amidst all the devils of hell, even as a great bowl cast athwart at a set of ninepins, or cannon-ball shot among a battalion of foot, in case so many times I do not boult my future wife the first night of our marriage!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel