"Get across" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at work, and at work desperately, for the closing down of winter was so imminent that it was a gamble whether or not they would get across the great chain of lakes before the freeze-up. Yet, when Kit arrived at the tent of Messrs. Sprague and Stine, he did not find ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... is much weaker than he was six weeks ago?" "Oh no, sir; you know it is very long since he has been up and dressed, and he can get across the room now." This means that the nurse has not observed that whereas six weeks ago he sat up and occupied himself in bed, he now lies still doing nothing; that, although he can "get across the room," he cannot stand ...
— Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not • Florence Nightingale
... a sad sight. They were all on foot. Each man was leading a horse as weak and lean as he was himself. Many of the horses had fallen off the rocks, and had been killed. Only half of the mules and horses that had started over the mountains had lived to get across. As soon as Fremont met his men, he told them to camp. He fed the poor starving fellows beef and bread and fresh salmon. The next day they all reached the beautiful Sacramento River, where the ...
— Stories of American Life and Adventure • Edward Eggleston
... edit a riddle book, Bertie, my son. I think we should get across the room now. I should be greatly obliged if you would introduce ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... a good deal of scrambling to get across, because the means of ferriage were inadequate; but by the aid of the Forest Queen and several gunboats I got my command across during the 7th of May, and marched out to Hankiuson's Ferry (eighteen miles), relieving General Crocker's ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman
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