| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.67.2 | Good faith, across! | Goodfaith a-crosse, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.569 | Who calls me villain? Breaks my pate across? | Who calles me Villaine? breakes my pate a-crosse? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.240 | Musing and sighing, with your arms across; | Musing, and sighing, with your armes a-crosse: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.78 | Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across. | Backe slaue, or I will breake thy pate a-crosse. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.15 | When my good falcon made her flight across | When my good Falcon, made her flight acrosse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.186.1 | Aeneas passes across the stage | |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.189 | Antenor passes across the stage | Enter Antenor. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.199 | Hector passes across the stage | Enter Hector. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.213 | Paris passes across the stage |
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| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.218 | Helenus passes across the stage | Enter Hellenus. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.227 | Troilus passes across the stage | Enter Trylus. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.240 | Common soldiers pass across the stage | Enter common Souldiers. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.173 | He's broke my head across, and he's given | H'as broke my head a-crosse, and has giuen |
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| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Rape of Lucrece | Luc.1662 | With sad set eyes and wretched arms across, | With sad set eyes and wretched armes acrosse, |
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| across | folded, crossed |
| across | [of a lance] not straight, obliquely; awry, amiss |
| across | from side to side, all the way across |
| Apollo | Greek sun god, who pulls the sun across the sky in a horse-drawn chariot; god of prophecy [speaking through the Delphi oracle, poetry, music, archery, and healing |
| askant, askaunt | aslant, across |
| athwart | across |
| bestride | stride across, step across |
| carbonadoed | scored across for grilling, made ready for broiling |
| Charon | [pron: 'kairon] guardian of the Underworld; ferryman who carried the souls of the dead across the River Acheron |
| come | find, acquire, come across |
| cross | across, in the middle |
| heat | race over, speed across |
| Leander | [li'ander] young man in love with Hero, who lived on the opposite side of the Hellespont; each night he swam across, guided by her lamp |
| light | come across, meet with, chance upon |
| overcome | suddenly come over, swiftly pass across |
| overleap | leap over, jump across |
| per Stygia | I am carried across the Styx, through the shades of the dead |
| traversed | placed crosswise, laid across the shoulders |
| waft | carry across, transport |
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Themes and Topics
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| Stage directions | ...n, in an 2h6 v.ii.72 a bout of fighting across the stage music item example glos...
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| Weapons | ... iv.ii.86 belt worn from one shoulder across the chest and under the opposite arm, u...
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| Classical mythology | ...ryman who carried the souls of the dead across the river acheron cimmerian tit...
...e of the hellespont; each night he swam across , guided by her lamp; one night the lamp...
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| Gods and goddesses | ...od, often thought of as pulling the sun across the sky in a horse-drawn chariot; god o...
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| Latin | ...anes vehor (tit ii.i.135): i am carried across the styx, through the shades of the dea...
... per (pron.) tc i.ii.15 by, through, across perge (v.) lll iv.ii.53 pergo [you] p...
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| Frequently Encountered Words (FEW) | ...] back, slave, or i will break thy pate across cym ii.i.7 [first lord to cloten, of clo...
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Words Families
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| Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
| ACROSS | BASIC | across adv |
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