athwart

• Silent sails This shadowy queen athwart, and faints away In another gloomy arch 650 Wherefore delay Young traveller, in such a mournful place Art thou wayworn, or canst not further trace The diamond path? —  Endymion A Poetic Romance
• It happened that two men were standing near me, looking the same way--athwart ships, you'll understand. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
• But the general philosophy which says that the party system should not be cut athwart is at least open to serious dispute. —  A Preface to Politics
• Even there a wooden advertisement grins broadly at him in his discomfiture, and shouts a name athwart his route. —  Certain Personal Matters
• Even as he spoke a heavy sea struck the vessel athwart, and, amid cries from the Marathas she keeled over and sank When the strangers had dried themselves, Diggle inquired of Hybati how he came to be in his present predicament. —  In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India

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