cross-line

The glowing, rapidly enlarging orb of Venus had not budged from the cross-line centering.

Archive 2009-08-01 Johnny Pez 2009

The glowing, rapidly enlarging orb of Venus had not budged from the cross-line centering.

"Neutral Vessel" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009

This is known as White cross-line ware, and is a hall-mark of the early part of the Predynastic period (Naqada I and early Naqada II), approximately 3800-3600 B.C.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 1 2002

Now these trouser-legs of his are morally certain to be too long, in which event they billow down over his feet in slovenly and ungraceful folds, or they are too short, in which event there is an awkward, ugly cross-line just above his ankles.

'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' Mary Roberts Rinehart 1910

The attempt to carry the eye over a cross-line in the foreground had been a long and conclusive one, and its final abandonment an admonition on this point.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

One, like several which have preceded it, comes from London: the other by a cross-line from Aldbrickham; and from the London train alights a couple;

Jude the Obscure 1896

Biggarsberg range, the cross-line of the A, is about fifty miles long.

Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith Spenser Wilkinson 1895

When you have carried your cross-line entirely around the parcel, tie it securely to the first twine where it began and finish with a single-tie knot, making a knot on the last end of the twine close to the fastening, to keep the end from slipping through.

On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888

When you have two or more parallel twines on your parcel and have begun to bring down the cross-line, secure it to each twine in this way: Bring the long twine down and loop it under the first twine to form a bight as in _I_ (Fig. 66).

On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888

Now we have recourse to the same tactics we employed before, and move along the ridge to another field to get our cross-line.

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879