What is "acrost"

Usage examples of "acrost".

I riz up and taken Joe by the neck and crotch and throwed him through a winder as gentle as I could, but I forgot about the hickory-wood bars which was nailed acrost it to keep the bears out.

And the fellers acrost the street hollered and started shooting at both of us.

I got that slug in my hip--and the keg hit my laigs and stopped, so I picked it up and heaved it back acrost the street.

Red, which had seven busted ribs, a dislocated arm and a busted laig, and they kinda folded him acrost his I saddle and tied him in place.

So I headed acrost the mountains for Chawed Ear, swinging wide to avoid coming anywheres nigh to the Humbolts.

Blanton by his voice, and pulled pieces of roof board and logs off him until I came onto his laig, and I pulled him out by it and laid him on the ground to get his wind back, because a beam had fell acrost his stummick and when he tried to holler he made the funniest noise I ever heard.

I hit out acrost the mountains, and the next morning found me eating breakfast at the aidge of War Paint, with a old hunter and trapper by the name of old Bill Polk which was camped there temporary.

Kidd and throwed Uncle Esau face down acrost the saddle-bow, and headed for the hills.

I taken it away from him and bent the barrel double acrost my knee and throwed it after him as he run out the back door hollering help, murder.

Here I come into a old wagon road which was jest about growed up with saplings now, but it run down into a ravine into the bed of the canyon, and they was a bridge acrost the river which had been built during the days of the gold rush.

Most of it had done been washed away by head-rises, but a man could still ride a hoss acrost what was left.

He streaked acrost that log like it was a quarter-track, with the bark and splinters flying from under his hoofs, and if one foot had slipped a inch, it would of been Sally bar the door.

It was as big around as my thigh, and it took me smack acrost the wish-bone.

And then I seen them cussed outlaws had dismounted off of their hosses and was coming acrost the bridge single file on foot, with their Winchesters in their hands.

I grabbed a big sapling and tore it up by the roots and broke it acrost my knee and throwed the pieces clean through a rail fence on the other side of the road.