Sentence examples for crossways from inspiring English sources

She is said to have been the model for the heroine of George Meredith's novel Diana of the Crossways (1885).

Links with Europe and Asia make North America the chief crossways of air routes in the world.

Diana of the Crossways, novel by George Meredith, 26 chapters of which were published serially in 1884 in the Fortnightly Review.

Diana of the Crossways examines the unhappy marriage of the title character Diana Warwick and is loosely based on events in the life of Caroline Norton (playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's granddaughter), who was suspected of revealing an important political secret that she had acquired from her lover.

He also wrote Negro Youth at the Crossways (1940) and Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World (1957), which dealt with African American studies.

Alexandrian craftsmen perfected a technique known as mosaic glass in which slices of glass canes of different colours were cut crossways to make different decorative patterns.

I did not turn to look because I had just noticed the dark polished wooden box sitting crossways just below the altar.

Score the fillets crossways with a sharp knife and cook them in hot oil, and it dissolves a lot of the bones.

The second-floor windows were six-over-one, hardly unusual, except that these sixes ran crossways to the normal pattern.

Those of us in the Hamiltonian tradition sit crossways in this debate.

"This place'd put the heart crossways in her".