← He looked at me across his glass of absinthe and asked if I had bought a copy. 🔊
← The devil had made as though to stretch forth his hand across the table, but he paused in his gesture. 🔊
← "Can't you"—but the devil had now stretched forth his hand across the table. 🔊
← "And a treacherous ass," he strangely added, tossing across to me a crumpled bit of paper which he had been holding in his hand. 🔊
← Soames was wretchedly rising from his chair when, with a desperate, quick gesture, I swept together two dinner-knives that were on the table, and laid their blades across each other. 🔊
← I stood staring all ways, up the street, across it, down it. 🔊