Whilst all this was going on, Pierre and Guillaume, after a brief rest, had resumed their walk, reaching the lake and proceeding towards the crossway of the Cascades, in order to return to Neuilly by the road beyond the water.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola
She will then learn to open her eyes, to look out for stones and avoid them, and to turn in the right direction at every bend or crossway.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola
But at every crossway we can hear the long muffled roar of the whistle, dying to a melancholy wail that echoes into the woods; the woods, I say, for the farms are thinning out and the track plunges here and there into great stretches of bush,-tall tamerack and red scrub willow and with a tangled undergrowth of bush that has defied for two generations all attempts to clear it into the form of fields.
"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"
Stephen Leacock