Athwart

Athwart the quiet street their flick'ring braid, —

The Age Reviewed 2010

The Trouble With Standing Athwart History: But of course this is the trouble with basing your political value system on things like authority and tradition.

Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History 2009

Athwart his own path, screening a face of fire, he throws cloud masses, masking his trained guns.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the insolence of others.

Les Miserables 2008

Athwart the mysterious words which had been uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the

Les Miserables 2008

Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was resting on him.

Les Miserables 2008

And jagged brazen arrows fall Athwart the feathers of the night,

'Everything Is a Mystery' Simic, Charles 2008

Athwart the picture of my Lady, over the great chimney – piece, it throws a broad bend – sinister of light that strikes down crookedly into the hearth and seems to rend it.

Bleak House 2007

Athwart these ran inscriptions horizontally and obliquely in an unfamiliar lettering.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

Athwart it in letters of fire ran an incredible inscription: “Mrs. Snooks.”

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006