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The ball bounces in front of him and without breaking stride or looking up, he smashes a right-footed volley high past Szczesny and in off the cross-bar from just outside the six-yard box.17 min: Milan attack down the left wing, with Ibrahimovic on the ball.
AC Milan 4-0 Arsenal – as it happened | Barry Glendenning 2012
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The scalp of the Indian he had despatched the day before was tied to the cross-bar of his bridle bit, the hair dangling almost to the ground, and John was decked out in the sacred vestments of Father Pandoza, having, long before any one was stiring in camp, ransacked the log-cabin at the Mission in which the good man had lived.
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The blade, long and sharp to piece a boar's tough hide, was about the same size as the short-swords all of the fighters were using, and the iron cross-bar designed to keep the boar from coming up the shaft at the hunter made effective quillons.
Elephant in the City 2010
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The danger presented by the bassinet is that when used in its bedside co-sleeper mode, it's possible for an infant to slip through an opening between a cross-bar and the mattress, become entrapped and strangle or suffocate.
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Heraclitus here references the Scythian bow, the horns of which pointed forward unstrung but back strung, or the deformation of the cross-bar of the lyre under string tension.
"So lower your expectations, and enjoy the Rourke." Ann Althouse 2009
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The danger presented by the bassinet is that when used in its bedside co-sleeper mode, it's possible for an infant to slip through an opening between a cross-bar and the mattress, become entrapped and strangle or suffocate.
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Notwithstanding the sturdy cross-bar it seemed ineffably female and fastidious ....
Oblomov in Dublin O'Toole, Fintan 2009
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Pavluchenko also had an opportunity to extend the score-line when he hit the cross-bar following another promising Russian buildup.
Russia 1-0 Sweden: Unfancied Russians and Unbeatable Manager Triumph 2008
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The Portuguese had the first opportunity of the match in the 20th minute when right wing-back Bosingwa dribbled promisingly down right-hand side and crossed for Joao Moutinho, who managed to slip in behind the German defense but could not decide how to re-direct the ball and instead sent it off his knee over the cross-bar.
Euro 2008 Quarterfinals: Germany 3-2 Portugal - High-Scoring Thriller in St. Jakob���s Park 2008
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The danger presented by the bassinet is that when used in its bedside co-sleeper mode, it's possible that an infant can slip through an opening between a cross-bar and the mattress, become entrapped and strangle or suffocate.
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