He was 29 when, in 1955, he launched National Review with the vow that it "stands athwart history, yelling Stop.". From LearnThat.org. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803230_pf.html]
Adverb : a ship riding athwart. From Dictionary.com.
The Fury flew athwart, and made th 'endeavor void. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Then will they stretch their pow'r athwart the land. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Near the face of dawn, that draws athwart the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference
And as the slanting shadows fell athwart the scattered leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
Thus she was the first to note a shadow fall athwart the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Still, however, the intense lightning shot athwart the placid sky. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
The Iranian regime has stood itself athwart modernity and said "No!". From Wordnik.com. [The Beginning Of The End?] Reference
Donald moved, his great form coming athwart her eager, kindling eyes. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Worse still when POLLY put out to sea and came athwart the FIRST LORD. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference
Then, suddenly, athwart the sunshine and the promise, like the cloud in. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
It was almost dark when the first rays of the silver moon fell athwart the chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
It renounces authority, cuts athwart custom, violates the sacred, rejects the myths. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Gaining the top she paused and looked athwart the mighty view outstretched before her. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
A ray of light steals through the transom, falling athwart that upturned youthful brow. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
As soon as they embarked the oars were laid athwart the boat so that they could stow two tiers of men. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
But it turns out that family values might no longer have a “wide stance” athwart American politics. From Wordnik.com. [Last Stop On The ‘V’-Train] Reference
I was too late to prevent the pinnace falling athwart the barrier, in which position she had three men wounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
Be it mine to lay these spare-ribs athwart no gridiron more fervid than the pavement of his own monumental Escurial. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
One morning, while I was still absolutely helpless, a fierce gleam of light reflected up from the sea shot athwart my face. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Peristyles, lying athwart, should be one third longer than they are deep, and their columns as high as the colonnades are wide. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
In streams, especially if they be rapid, cast up and down, but chiefly athwart, by so doing your bait shows greatly to advantage. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
The land makes an elbow where these forts are, which obliged the Barracouta to haul athwart the river, to get her broadside to bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
So it was not until their shadows, mingling with those of the descending night, fell athwart him that the cowboy looked up with a start. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
A fringe of silken jet swept heavily upward from her dusky cheek, athwart which the richest color came and went like flashes of lightning. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
The shadow of the stairway leading above fell athwart the room, and as I looked cautiously around the clock in the hall beyond struck eleven. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
They show a half-naked psylph, replete with tattoos and a ridiculous pair of butterfly wings, standing athwart the path of a phalanx of Ogre UAV's. From Wordnik.com. [Better Alive Than Dead] Reference
It was not until recently that some dim perception of this complexity had begun to dawn upon her, athwart the sunshine of her life as bride and queen. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
The morning was misty, and the clouds were driven low athwart the mountains, forming, as Alice well said, pedestals on which their lofty heads were upreared. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The stern gnarled oaks along the wayside, twisting their leafless boughs athwart the sky, seemed as perverse as the Swedes whom he had vainly sought to rouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The shifting winds roar athwart our course, and blow stronger out of the black west, and the air thickens into mist: nor are we fit to force our way on and across. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
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