"Crossway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... swift along the crossway, still They speed with eager cry: See! right and left, two horsemen strange ...
— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis
... Chinese pagoda with soundless belfries and motionless golden eggs. The greenhouse concealed the garden wall on the northern side, the opposite wall was covered with climbing plants trained upon poles painted green and connected with crossway trellises. This lawn, this world of flowers, the gravelled paths, the simulated forest, the verdant palisades, were contained within the space of five and twenty square rods, which are worth to-day ...
— Paz - (La Fausse Maitresse) • Honore de Balzac
... a construction of iron uprights and crossway bars had been hastily contrived and fitted with curtains, forming a small recess, behind which was a tidy washstand, fine clean towels and plenty of fresh water. Evidently the shops of Boulogne had been commandeered in ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... military governor passed near them, on his way to the crossway of the Pyramid, Henri made a movement as ...
— Zibeline, Complete • Phillipe de Massa
... "Am I in Italy? Is this the Mincius? Are those the distant turrets of Verona? And shall I sup where Juliet at the Masque Saw her loved Montague, and now sleeps by him? Such questions hourly do I ask myself; And not a stone in a crossway inscribed 'To Mantua,' 'To Ferrara,' but excites Surprise, ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) • John Ruskin |
