Wordie: Athwart

5 months ago yarb said:

"In this latter end of autumn, with a sparse remnant of yellow leaves falling slowly athwart the dark evergreens in a stillness without sunshine, the house too had an air of autumnal decline..."

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

5 months ago chained_bear said:

"'Such tales have I heard of Captain Bentinck's palls, or rather shrouds, and his triangular courses, of Captain Pakenham's newly-discovered rudder, of Captain Bolton's jury-mast, of improved iron-horses, dogs, dolphins, mouses — or mice as some say — puddings...'

"'Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.

"'Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.'

"'The starboard gumbrils ... by and large,' said Graham, and with a passing qualm Stephen recalled that the Professor had an unusually good memory..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 76

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