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Examples
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This time they attacked at deck level, using the cross-passage between the two batteries.
Command Decision Moon, Elizabeth 2007
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A short distance ahead we came to another cross-passage, and turned to the left.
Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004
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I said aloud to Harry, "Probably a cross-passage," and then jerked him back quickly against the opposite wall as I saw the real nature of the opening.
Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004
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"Will it never end?" whispered Harry at length, after we had traversed upward of a mile without any sign of a cross-passage or a termination.
Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004
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She appeared from a cross-passage only seconds behind Amy.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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Sheen, with gentle pressure on his elbow, guided him into a cross-passage leading to a rest room.
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
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Sheen, with gentle pressure on his elbow, guided him into a cross-passage leading to a rest room.
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
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He carefully checked the cross-passage but there was no one to be seen.
Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976
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The boys walked faster until they came to the cross-passage and then turned to the right.
Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher
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As soon as the heading had been driven beyond the center line of the pump chamber, a bottom heading was driven from a break-up westward in the pump chamber and a connection was made with the cross-passage.
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