| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.67.2 | Good faith, across! | Goodfaith 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. |
| 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: |
| 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 |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.15 | When my good falcon made her flight across | When my good Falcon, made her flight acrosse |
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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 | ... in an 2h6 v ii 72 a bout of fighting across the stage music item exam...
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| Weapons | ... iv ii 86 belt worn from one shoulder across the chest and under the opposite arm us...
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| Classical mythology | ...rryman who carried the souls of the dead across the river acheron cimmerian ...
...de of the hellespont each night he swam across guided by her lamp one night the lamp ...
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| Gods and goddesses | ...god often thought of as pulling the sun across the sky in a horse-drawn chariot god of...
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| Latin | ...manes vehor (tit ii i 135) i am carried across the styx through the shades of the dead...
...per (pron ) tc i ii 15 by through across perge (v ) lll iv ii 53 pergo [y...
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| Frequently Encountered Words (FEW) | ...s] back slave or i will break thy pate across cym ii i 7 [first lord to cloten of cl...
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Words Families
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| Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
| ACROSS | BASIC | across adv |
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