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British pursuivants wore their tabards "athwart", with the sleeves at the front and back, until the reign of James II....

starboard stu'nsail. One or more spritsails may also be set on booms set athwart and below the bowsprit. One or two spankers are carried aft of the aftmost...

imago is typically 6–16 mm in length. Their eggs are 1 mm long, and in athwart 0.5 mm. Larvae of the species are 10–18 mm long and 2.1 mm wide. Pupa are...

On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners'...

Again". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 28, 2017. "Braveheart Stands Athwart a Brave New World." National Review. November 1, 2004. Archived May 28...

his biography of her daughter, and said, "I think God has laid my soul athwart in my body, so that it can't get out." The incorrupt head and thumb were...

but it is still known in French as the bicorne. Worn in the side-to-side athwart style during the 1790s, the bicorne became normally seen fore-and-aft in...

in on top of the "beds". Barrels should be stowed fore and aft and not athwart ships. Once the first tier has been loaded, the next tier of barrels fits...

p. 147. ISBN 0895266563. Will, George F. (February 29, 2008). "A Life Athwart History". The Washington Post. p. A19. Retrieved October 8, 2012. "William...

allow that the occupant of the womb is even potentially a life, it cuts athwart any glib invocation of "the woman's right to choose" and that: I would...

Review is superfluous, it is so for very different reasons: It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no other is inclined to do so, or...

First, it can be any of the individual beams that run side-to-side or "athwart" the hull at any point abaft the fashion timber; second, it can refer specifically...

the New Madrid earthquake; at the same time, a fiery comet was rushing athwart the horizon". Before perihelion passage on September 12, 1811, the comet...

at one time the custom for English pursuivants to wear their tabards "athwart", that is to say with the smaller ("shoulder") panels at the front and...

Retrieved 5 August 2023. Jorge González-Gallarza (6 July 2023). "Paraguay Athwart Liberalism". europeanconservative.com. Retrieved 18 August 2023. "El Partido...

ye be of quiet." ... "Lather me! – Shiver my timbers. if so be he comes athwart me – I'll soon lower his topsails for him – Here's King George and old...

scant (skamt), sly (sløgʀ), weak (væikʀ), wrong (vrangʀ) Adverbs – thwart/athwart (þvert) Prepositions – till (til), fro (frá) Conjunction – though/tho (þó)...

pessimistic way. William F. Buckley famously remarked that he was "standing athwart history yelling 'stop!'", and Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) was convinced...

keeping the forecastle drier and to allow easier operation of weapons. athwart athwartships At right angles to the fore and aft or centerline of a ship...

usage of Octoechos. A plagal mode (from Greek πλάγιος 'oblique, sideways, athwart') has a range that includes the octave from the fourth below the final...