athwart造句

They put a table athwart the doorway.

The ship steamed athwart the tug.

The shadow of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo.

It was like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning.

Black shadows of bordering trees lay athwart the road, which, in the short reaches between, gleamed a ghostly white.

Parkman says: 'Before them a wide and rapid current coursed athwart their way, by the foot of lofty heights wrapped thick in forests.

Just as the first ray of the rising sun shot like a golden arrow athwart this desolation we gained the further gateway of the outer wall.

There are a group of stone peaks lining up athwart-ships in the east of Drunken Arhat. Some are like lamps, some spears, some giant axes, and some supernal dogs squatting.

Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, which is waiting to be put away somewhere.