Word: across
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Stretching across the sunlit...
...Across the waste of waters gleamed
...cost of living there is no higher than here, while the tuition here will almost pay the passage across and back...
...Across the sky, and pay their deep devotion...
...Island. Cheered by resident Cubans. Run fifteen bells in four hours, and at five knots pipe to dinner. Speak a ferryboat from Holmes Hole, short of provisions; give them a barrel of salt for ballast, and two able-bodied seamen (already blind-drunk and mutinous). Toward dusk a shot across our bows from villanous-looking pilot-boat. Press on under full head of canvas and steam, - she is overhauling us, - O for night! (Sable Goddess, - Young.) At ii P. M. near enough for conversation, too near for comfort. The interests of Cuban independence demand the preservation of our lives...