Points of intersection

Usage examples of crossings.

Down the ancient road they came that led through the long defile of Sirion, past the isle where Minas Tirith of Finrod had stood, and so through the land between Malduin and Sirion, and on through the eaves of Brethil to the Crossings of Teiglin.

In all the confusion no one apparently had ordered the crossings destroyed.

The airborne forces were to seize a succession of river crossings in Holland ahead of his troops, with the major objective being the Lower Rhine bridge at Arnhem.

Taylor’s 101/ Airborne Division was to capture canal and river crossings over a fifteen-mile stretch between Eindhoven and Veghel.

They were to seize crossings over the great Maas and Waal rivers, in particular the huge multispan bridge at Nijmegen, which, with its approaches, was almost a half-mile long.

Studying the southernmost part of the corridor where the 101/ Airborne Division was to hold between Eindhoven and Veghel, Taylor quickly noted that over the fifteen-mile stretch of highway, his troops must capture two major canal crossings and no less than nine highway and railroad bridges.

In this central segment of the corridor, the huge, nine-span, 1,500-foot-long bridge over the Maas river at Grave and at least one of four smaller railroad and highway crossings over the Maas-Waal Canal must be seized.

For Colonel Sink, who was to take Eindhoven and its crossings by 8 P.

Gavin’s hope of capturing all three canal crossings and a railroad bridge was in vain.

Browning, worried that the crossings might be destroyed at any moment, called another conference late on the nineteenth.

Then, under a smoke screen laid down by tanks, the first wave of men led by twenty-seven-year-old Major Julian Cook were to set out in one of the most daring river crossings ever made.

Cook’s men had to grab the northern ends of the crossings before the Germans fully realized what was happening—and before they blew the bridges.

The moment the flare dimmed and burned out, they ran to the boats and rafts, climbed in, and the crossings began again.

All this talk of Crossings, of shining alien worlds, seemed bizarre and absurd to her now against this ugly unanswerable reality.

He can just walk around from place to place, making Crossings or whatever for people until there's nobody left alive.