He is crossed off the Newcastle lists, and his parents, of course, stop sending parcels.

There's so much good in the world that we've had, Let's strike a balance and cross off the bad.

The method of awarding the victory was this: the different runners were to be checked off as they passed the different stages of the course, and crossed off as they came across the finish-line.

I've heard him talk about this cross off and onit's been a good deal in his mindand maybe he was a little out of his head.

But if they have promised to shoot the cross off a church spire, or empty the inkpot into somebody's beer, or bring home somebody's ears in their pocket for the pleasure of their families, I think in these cases they would feel a sort of a shadow of what civilised men feel in the fulfilment of a promise, as distinct from the making of it.

When a thing was sold and crossed off the book, he put his initials to the entry of the sale.

From end to end nothing is crossed off, so that whether an account be paid or not cannot be ascertained.

There were listed on it the five dishes which were being prepared and as a joke a number of othersquite impossible to cook at such a time, as roast beef, mince pie, frozen puddingall of which were then heavily crossed off in black ink.

And there, in the other, was the private account, crossed off also; the date of settlement being the very day after the loss of the cash-box.