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1. crisscross the hulls of the wooden ships with great chains until they were almost as well protected as the ironclads
2. They’d been carving a crisscross path towards Onitsha, the gateway to the Biafran territory east of the Niger
3. An apple-shaped woman sits at the reception desk doing a Crisscross puzzle with a felt marker
4. But, as she had to crisscross the city to help Sneha Travels, soon she developed weariness for driving
5. Crisscross is a great warm up game
6. Mother de Chantal drew back the black drapes in front of her which revealed a crisscross of metal bars called “the grill
7. Upstairs in Jen’s bedroom, Therese kicked off her shoes and sat on the bedspread crisscross with the crown in her lap
8. It was lit up with a crisscross of lights
9. sides and crisscross them together, alternating them so that the hand on top
10. flames illuminated the crisscross of swollen scars and
11. "Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull her and a snip there would straighten it out
12. Marie-Laure imagines the electromagnetic waves traveling into and out of Michel’s machine, bending around them, just as Etienne used to describe, except now a thousand times more crisscross the air than when he lived—maybe a million times more
13. Companies crisscross the thin line between hedging and speculating, using inside information
14. Somewhere, surely, tracks would crisscross, correspondences would have been made, relationships established
15. Then he cut his throat, crisscross, right on the Adam’s apple
16. They were still in the silver tunnel, threading and weaving their way through what appeared tobe a crisscross warren of converging tunnels
1. When I told Ish and Omi about the deal later, worry lines crisscrossed their
2. “Well then, I just happen to have a stable filled with riding horses and the entire valley is crisscrossed with trails
3. Dozens of people crisscrossed the room, men in sharp black suits threading their way among various tradesmen
4. It had a black lace bodice with crisscrossed straps, the bodice was not low cut but it showed off her magnificent chest
5. at the huge hand hewed timbers that crisscrossed the space
6. It was almost midafternoon when they came to a break line in the trees, the opening leading to a beaten path that crisscrossed and passed through a gorge near the bottom
7. The empty space in this otherwise ordinary solar system is crisscrossed with immensely powerful glowing beams
8. An old fence line separated the fields from the lane---mostly cedar serpentine rails crisscrossed and wired together
9. Above was the empty roof, crisscrossed with girders and a clear plastic tarp on one side
10. Before Joey even got the stone above his head the Cyri had already crisscrossed on all fours and reached up to Joey, Flayers ready
11. There were lots of pedestrian trails but none of the streets that had crisscrossed London for centuries
12. Several Illinois highways crisscrossed the city, and Interstate I-474 wrapped its belt around the
13. She crisscrossed side roads until she felt she had eluded any pursuit
14. It was their first morning at the inn, and they sat bent over a pile of notes, long-stemmed pipes crisscrossed over the table
15. Troubles crisscrossed my path; Thorns thrown along the way
16. What was strange stood directly before the cave: a complicated, rickety contraption made of wooden beams and metal rods, standing four times Hal’s height and just as wide, with wobbly cogs and wheels and greasy pulleys that turned continuously, pulling around chains that crisscrossed here and there
17. Violent red streaks crisscrossed his chest and arms, and the wound in his shoulder pumped out blood
18. Pierre was blinded as the blade crisscrossed his face
19. They crisscrossed the outline of each and every room for a double layer of protection
20. footprints on the dusty ground crisscrossed in every direction
21. They crisscrossed the country raising money for the Movement
22. The surface of the water was crisscrossed by a floating arbor of marine plants belonging to that superabundant algae family that numbers more than 2,000 known species
23. His skin was back to full color, his eyes no longer crisscrossed with red veins; he seemed to have gained fifteen pounds in twenty-four hours
24. Thomas pulled on the crisscrossed lid flaps until they popped open
25. Though his abdomen and thighs are crisscrossed with scars, the rest of his skin is sleek and velvety as the head of his—Stop staring!
26. I’d lost it amid the blow-downs and temporary roads that crisscrossed and eventually obliterated the trail
27. In dozens of letters that crisscrossed America, they shared their emotions and bolstered each other’s hopes about “our boys
28. But what shocked me more than any signs of physical weakness was that his face was grotesquely crisscrossed with sticking-plaster, and that one large pad of it was fastened over his mouth
29. They’d been on-site, already coupling their hoses to the fire mains that crisscrossed the Delthak Works, and the first streams of water had gone hissing into the flames even before he reached the disaster
30. Clotheslines crisscrossed crazily above
31. Where my chart had staggered lines and a rising trend line, the lines on Harry’s graph crisscrossed, shot up into peaks, plunged into troughs, and then staggered again
32. Paramedics were wheeling gurneys; doctors, nurses, and patients crisscrossed every which way around me
33. In addition to the newspaper over the windows, it was also crisscrossed with brown tape
34. There were two window frames with thin strips of painted white wood that crisscrossed across the glass
35. Like them, the boats of the River Company of the Caribbean had a lower deck almost level with the water, with the steam engines and the galleys and the sleeping quarters like henhouses where the crew hung their hammocks crisscrossed at different heights
36. Some returned with their abdomens crisscrossed by barbarous stitches that seemed to have been sewn with cobbler’s hemp; they would raise their shirts to display them when people came to visit, they compared them with those of others who had suffocated from excesses of joy, and for the rest of their days they would describe and describe again the angelic visions they had seen under the influence of chloroform
37. From the ragged sleeves of the blue shirt wrists like big grapevines protruded, and hands sheathed in brown calluses crisscrossed with barnacle cuts
38. It was crisscrossed in every direction with long straight lines, sometimes running parallel and sometimes converging toward some great circle
1. Apollo's head spins with the thoughts, crisscrossing his mind, contradicting one another
2. He was constantly crisscrossing the soon to be enclosed space, apparently unfazed by the ten foot fir poles he hoisted above his head and carried much like a waiter with a tray of food, or a drum major leading a parade band
3. Beth rode for hours on the trails crisscrossing the mountains of Puriscal
4. As we banked left and right, crisscrossing in the air along with the other extremely modified blackhawk (the modifications largely consisted of a relic bible attached to its nose, leather-bound and hand-written by a catholic Saint), it looked almost as if a couple of playful night-birds courting in the sweet, warm summer night
5. The trail was too obvious but since the trees were too close together to allow easy passage it was only logical for interlopers to keep to the animal trails crisscrossing the pithy maze
6. As he suspected, the laser beams crisscrossing the hull soon encountered an invisible object, creating explosions of sparks
7. Our robots have by now built a complete underground network of pipelines crisscrossing most of Palestine
8. On some silent order from the lead machine, the four other robots suddenly dispersed as one, rolling on their tracks and crisscrossing the camp in a pattern that Moshe could not figure out
9. This reciprocating expansiveness – in and out of me into you waving you into me, resonating up and down the crisscrossing arcs of Earth's developing brain – is a manifestation of Earth's evolving spirit
10. She released her knees and sat up crisscrossing her legs
11. He frowned when he saw the huge gash that had been stitched up, crisscrossing over an old scar
12. There had even been a time when he’d doubled back, crisscrossing his own trail before scampering up the stream to elude the strange visitors who’d invaded his beloved forest
13. Growing in confidence, he started crisscrossing the room
14. I hiked out an hour later with the Three Young Bucks, crisscrossing with them all day; occasionally we stopped together for breaks
15. He’d been crisscrossing the world for years, plugging his faith
16. Several voices rang out, their answers crisscrossing one another
17. I called out but heard nothing; crisscrossing wavelengths obscured any hope of feeling out its whereabouts
18. We also required money to replace the Mississippi amplifiers that we’d burned out crisscrossing the map, so we would suffer the indignity playing this high-paying date in a marquee full of what I imagined to be future cabinet ministers
19. Then jumpsuits are crisscrossing the headlights
20. When we reached the central promenade of the mall, the whole area ballooned: four stories high, escalators and elevators crisscrossing in the black
21. The area is a sprawling mass of buses and travelers, crisscrossing streets and check points
22. And for the virgins, the two young girls who had no idea that their destinies were crisscrossing
23. Directly across from us, maybe 250 yards offshore, we could see flashlight beams crisscrossing the underbrush on Roosevelt Island
24. Her eyes looked as if they were watching a thousand fireflies crisscrossing each other in the wild night air