"Get across" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I saw that the river was in full flood, more than twice its usual breadth, and running like a mill-race. I knew at once that I should have a very tough job to get across, for a flooded African river is no joke, I can tell you. But I knew also that my wife would be terribly anxious if I didn't come back on the day I had fixed—South Africa being a place where a good many things may happen to a man—and ...
— Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... was free of them, he started on, hoping to get across Park Street and into the Common. But the pack was instantly at his heels again after the manner of their kind. He glanced about him baffled, realizing that with the increasing excitement his chances of pulling clear of ...
— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... the question. "Simply because we should never get across the Bay of Biscay in her, to say nothing of the remainder ...
— For Treasure Bound • Harry Collingwood
... is swifter and deeper in that direction. This is the best place to get across. There is nothing to be done but to carry you over, and that, with ...
— The Northern Light • E. Werner
... company of another man, or men, unless he himself were present also. Now, the boat would only hold two persons, though it could, of course, be rowed by one, and it seemed impossible that the four couples would ever get across. But midway in the stream was a small island, and this seemed to present a way out of the difficulty, because a person or persons could be left there while the boat was rowed back or to the opposite shore. If they had been prepared for ...
— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney
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