Right and left it went, this silent gallery, and although he was unaware of the fact, it joined other like galleries which encircled the slopes and met and intercrossed so that one might wander for hours along these mystic aisles of the hills.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
It was an intangible but impenetrable mesh of interests and influences that extended in every direction and crossed and intercrossed so that no man could tell where it ended.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
From these several considerations, it may be justly urged that the perfect fertility of the intercrossed races of man, if established, would not absolutely preclude us from ranking them as distinct species.
"The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I (1st edition)"
Charles Darwin