We now come abreast of the gap on the right, and it ends the tedium of the reach upriver.
Then, as we come abreast of the house, the farm, the hotel or the store we have been looking for, sometimes a place with no visible number or one obscured by the night, she bursts with the joy of discovery.
"I really think," Loomis said, and then he stopped speaking, because the helicopter he'd been hearing, one of those large twin-engine birds that carry troops in and out of combat — a Chinook — had come abreast of them, a quarter mile or so off the beach.
It is a policewoman, who, coming abreast, smiles benevolently and walks on.
We came abreast of another rowboat carrying a group of Vietnamese, Buddhist pilgrims.
As Jon Vegard came abreast of the van it exploded into a sea of flames.
Every now and then they came abreast of another rickshaw, and he looked across at his fellow-exploiters.
As he came abreast of the cabdriver, the admiral swooped down, picked up a banana peel from the sidewalk, and deftly flipped it into the tormentor's puss.
As we turned onto 57th Street, a police van came abreast of us, the driver rolled down his window and to our great surprise began singing along with us in Italian, a great big grin on his face.
While driving past old news -- from the Pink House, designed by Arquitectonica in 1977, to the Crystal House, Morris Lapidus's one foray into the International Style -- they came abreast of Aqua, the spanking-new, guarded and gated community designed by Duany PlAlisonyberk, AliSpearpear, Walter Chatham and others.
By Ralph Isham and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, May 11 , 1935P. 17 Two quietly dressed, dignified gentlemen were jurrying up Fifth Avenue last Tuesday afternoon, and just as they came abreast of our informant, a Mr. Isham, one of them said irritably, "No, no, you damn fool, not sardines--gardenias.
