10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THWARTWAYS»
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He lashed the canes together, criss-cross and thwartways,—any way but
longways,—and they made up twelve-foot-square floats, like rafts. Then he
stepped 'a twelve-foot bamboo or a bundle of canes in the centre, and to the
head of that he ...
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling: The ...
Dowse said he took longer over those floats than might have been needed,
because he rejoiced in the corners, they being square, and the streaks in his
head all running longways. He lashed the canes together, criss-cross and
thwartways ...
Rudyard Kipling, Wolcott Blaestier, 1909
3
The Young Mariner's Guide; Or Hints for the Management of a ...
I should, of course, be obliged to allow it to hang in the shears on deck, having a
strong iron bolt or crow-bar through the rudder head thwartways to hang it by,
thereby leaving it with the greatest freedom of action under such circumstances, ...
Charles Joseph RICHES, 1854
4
Works. [Seven seas ed.]
He lashed the canes together, crisscross and thwartways, — any way but
longways, — and they made up a dozen twelve-foot-square floats, like rafts. Then
he stepped a twelve-foot bamboo or a bundle of canes in the centre, and to the
head of ...
5
The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling
Dowse said he took longer over those floats than might have been needed,
because he rejoiced in the corners, they being square, and the streaks in his
head all running longways. He lashed the canes together, criss-cross and
thwartways ...
Rudyard Kipling, Charles Wolcott Balestier, 1920
6
A narrative of Arctic discovery
We next fasten'd a rough tree aloft over all, upon which we laid our rafters, and
our main course over them again, which, lying thwartways over all, reach'd down
to the very ground on either side ; and this was the fabrick of the outside of it.
John Joseph Shillinglaw, 1850
7
The Headship of Christ and The Rights of the Christian People
... turned, as it were, thwartways in the passage, as logs sometimes do when
floated down a stream ; — -the long, loose, unmusical sentences, that forget
themselves, and run into paragraphs ; — the thick, dense words, that seem
selected with ...
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The young mariner's guide, or, Hints for the management of a ...
I should, of course, be obliged to allow it to hang in the shears on deck, having a
strong iron bolt or crow-bar through the rudder head thwartways to hang it by,
thereby leaving it with the greatest freedom of action under such circumstances, ...
Charles Joseph Riches, 1854
... swung thwartways the blue sky, or plunged headlong into the long, green
swells with the curve of falling stars. It was a place of forgetting, and in the
autumn time it is good to forget. For winter is nigh, when there will be time and
enough to ...
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Delphi Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)
He lashed thecanes together, crisscross and thwartways, — any way but
longways, — and they made up twelvefootsquare floats, like rafts. Then he
stepped a twelvefoot bamboo ora bundle of canes in thecentre, and tothe head of
that he ...
