Sentence examples for crossing to safety from inspiring English sources

Her answer: a Wallace Stegner novel about the lifelong friendship of two couples, "Crossing to Safety".

The book that got our club started, Stegner's "Crossing to Safety," prompted one of our most important discussions.

The Schwalbe reading list was big and eclectic, and included Wallace Stegner's "Crossing to Safety" and Alan Bennett's "Uncommon Reader," the Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion's "Year of Magical Thinking," and works by W. Somerset Maugham and Thomas Mann.

After his death in Santa Fe in 1993, of complications following a car accident, his ashes were scattered on a hill near the cottage in Greensboro, Vt., where he and his family had spent many summers and where he set his last novel, "Crossing to Safety".

Stegner's daughter-in-law, the novelist Lynn Stegner, said that the title of "Crossing to Safety" "echoes the same theme he was always interested in — the East, the West, the orphaned Westerners being taken in and taken care of by the cultured Eastern family".

And here he is confessing to his mother that he has never read "Crossing to Safety," even though for years he misled his colleagues: "There's a difference between casually fibbing to a bookseller and lying to your 73-year-old mother when you are accompanying her for treatments to slow the growth of a cancer that had already spread from her pancreas to her liver by the time it was diagnosed".

In this thrilling and challenging transition, we will cross to safety together".

Now conservationists are celebrating the apparent success of an experiment involving a series of new wildlife overpasses that allow the pronghorns to cross to safety while freeing up the roads.

Before they can cross to safety, the colonel returns to confiscate their visas and impound the car, informing them through his translator that they are all under arrest as accomplices to Dad's capital crimes.

He helped to push the Austrians back to Bavaria in the 1796 summer campaign, and then covered Moreau's retreat to France later that year, defending the Rhine bridge at Hüningen until the last units had crossed to safety.

While some of the band managed to escape across the Mississippi River that afternoon, the steamboat Warrior, commanded by Captain Joseph Throckmorton, appeared on the scene and halted the band's attempt to cross to safety.