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  • This time they attacked at deck level, using the cross-passage between the two batteries.

    Command Decision Moon, Elizabeth 2007

  • A short distance ahead we came to another cross-passage, and turned to the left.

    Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

  • 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

  • "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

  • She appeared from a cross-passage only seconds behind Amy.

    Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

  • Sheen, with gentle pressure on his elbow, guided him into a cross-passage leading to a rest room.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Sheen, with gentle pressure on his elbow, guided him into a cross-passage leading to a rest room.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • He carefully checked the cross-passage but there was no one to be seen.

    Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976

  • 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

  • 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.

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 James H. Brace

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