Significats de come athwart en anglès

If I come athwart his hawser I'll turn him keel upwards, I will.

At this rate, you will come athwart my hawse.

It was my hard fate to come athwart an obstacle which could not be circumvented, but must be broken.

And still the Great Spirit is over all: Religion comes athwart Myth.

Donald moved, his great form coming athwart her eager, kindling eyes.

The gale came athwart the deck, and every sail seemed bursting with its wild breath.

Did you not hear voices coming athwart the wind?

But her voice of welcome came athwart the luminous darkness, and their hands found each other.

The witness's voice, raised by suggestion of counsel to a higher note, came athwart Mocket's speculations.

I am sick in displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly with mine.

There was a moment in which her face looked the embodiment of sarcasm, then something gentler came athwart it.

A big collier came athwart the bows of our steamer, and we had to slacken down to dead slow.

For the first day or two, he was unusually cross with all things and people that came athwart him.

If the influence of that visit came athwart Yeovil's life and hers with disastrous effect, that was "Kismet."

"No!" said Procope; "the orbit of Saturn is remote, and does not come athwart our path.

Then, black figures, holding strange-shaped bucket shovels, came athwart the deep-red furnace light, and clear and brilliant flowed forth the iron into the appropriate mould.