At one cross-roads a huge pool of blood, mingling with and overwhelming the mud.

" Similarly, in our own country, oak-trees planted at the junction of cross-roads were much resorted to by persons suffering from ague, for the purpose of transferring to them their complaint, and elsewhere allusion has already been made to the practice of curing sickly children by passing through a split piece of oak.

It is at Deptford, as I say, that we begin to leave the mean streets, for at the cross-roads we turn up Blackheath Hill, and though this is not in all probability the ancient way, it is as near it as modern conditions have allowed us.

At the great cross-roads of life we are apt to ask the way of any body who happens to be near.

Judah was like a man standing at the cross-roads, on a stormy night, with all the guide-posts blown down.

But when we come to the cross-roads, the question is, "Boy, which way will you ride?" Deliberation is necessary, unless we wish to play a fool's part.

" "I'll try my best, you may believe, Biah," said James, shaking the hard hand heartily, as he turned on his way towards the cross-roads tavern.

We enquired at New Ipswich our best route to Northampton, where we intended to go to meet Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius, but we found on enquiry that there were nothing but cross-roads and these very bad, and no taverns where we could be comfortably accommodated.

You have never seen Paul Petrofski since I heard you offer him one thousand roubles at the cross-roads that night to betray his master.

This time, in the very middle of his dream, he reached the cross-roads saloon and general merchandise store of Flanders; so he banished his visions with a compelling shrug of the shoulders and rode for it at a gallop, a hot dryness growing in his throat at every stride.

He paused at the cross-roads to hear the end of the Sergeant's reminiscences of happy days when he, the Sergeant, (then full-private, full in more senses than one) had held the responsible position of beer-taster to a regiment at Jaipurbad ("an ideal drinkin' climate, Sir"), then, dismissing the old connoisseur, continued on his way bedward.

There was a small auberge at the cross-roads, and a patrol of the Third Hussars of Conflansthe very regiment of which I was afterwards colonelwere mounting their horses at the door.

Calling one day, near noon, at Georgetown Cross-Roads, I found myself surrounded in the tavern by slaveholders.

We saw a few more tombs, and a great general monument or cenotaph to the dead, constructed at cross-roads by military engineers.

She was easily taken in by any of those veiled, inimical spectres of the cross-roads that youth mistakes for destiny.

"I go north here," said Foy at the cross-roads above the town.

He spent the day of the eviction, as usual, at the Cross-roads, and came back at night to a ruin.

Therefore, when the van drew up at the cross-roads for him to alight, he wished them long life and a multitude of children with quite a fatherly air.

Once we came to a cross-roads where the fence had been demolished and a warning painted on a rough pine board above a wayside watering-trough.

A little further on there came into view a post with a series of white, pointing sign-boards, that indicated a cross-roads.

When still a hundred yards from this the car stopped once more; again the Italian flew by; again he vanished, this time around a bend beyond the cross-roads.

It had not been a particularly agitating interview, but she knew that she had just passed a cross-roads, in her life.

By worn-out fields they cantered on Drear fields amid the woodlands wide; By cross-roads of some olden time, In which grew groves; by gate-stones down Grassed ruins of secluded pride: A strange lone land, long past the prime, Fit land for Mosby or for crime.

Emma Alice Browne was born about forty-five years ago, in an unpretentious cottage, which is still standing near the northeast corner of the cross-roads, on the top of Mount Pleasant, or Vinegar Hill, as it was then called, about a mile west of Colora.

At a cross-roads country store they stopped and here Joe understood what Boston Frank had meant with "P.-O.", as it bore a large sign that had the words "Post Office" painted upon it.