Significados de shoot athwart en inglés

He gave a bark, poor gallant little dog, for help, but just then we saw a dark square snout shoot athwart the stream.

Was she a being like myself, or one of those visions which, like living meteors, shoot athwart the sky of our imagination, dazzling the eye?

She was already out of her berth and shooting athwart the river.

They succeeded in shooting athwart the current, rapid as it was, just below the men.

A saving scheme had shot athwart my brain.

Her son looked up, and a ray of hope shot athwart his pale and anxious face.

The only light that shot athwart the waters was from the high watch-towers, and it was lurid.

Her glances, shot athwart, frequently exclaimed-'Ohla!'

Suddenly a Ray, not of the sun, shot athwart the loggia and touched her with a deep gold radiance.

The lightning, ever shooting athwart the sky, made him blink as if dazzled, but he looked upon it without emotion.

Intellectually, he was a meteor that shot athwart the literary firmament, leaving a train of fire behind to mark his course.

'But hold,' I said, 'all is not lost.' A saving scheme had shot athwart my brain.

Yes, and when Andy looked, he could see the sudden wicked gleam of the zigzag lightning as it shot athwart the black masses.

The description given of this star is similar to that of a large burning meteor, such as we frequently see shooting athwart the heavens.

A gleam of intelligence, and I thought of pleasure, shot athwart the countenance of Captain Robbins, as I helped him over the Tigris's side.