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athwart
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{adj}
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Definition:in opposition to; counter to
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About three in the afternoon he came up with us, and bringing to, by mistake, just athwart our quarter, instead of athwart our stern, as he intended, we brought eight of our guns to bear on that side, and poured in a broadside upon him, which made him sheer off again, after returning our fire, and pouring in also his small shot from near two hundred men which he had on board.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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In the music class, in the ballads she sang, there was nothing but little angels with golden wings, madonnas, lagunes, gondoliers;-mild compositions that allowed her to catch a glimpse athwart the obscurity of style and the weakness of the music of the attractive phantasmagoria of sentimental realities.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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They had pulled one sudden stroke ahead, had got their oars in, had run athwart us, and were holding on to our gunwale,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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no one could be less like that dowdy figure athwart the teapot in Reverend Wakefield’s study, the tone of voice had been that of Mrs. Graham
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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