crossing-place

Had the stream forced him down among the rocks, which lie below the crossing-place, the consequences must have been fatal.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Started on a course a little to the south of west, to try and find a crossing-place.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

I got stuck at what is normally a routine crossing-place to Green Park.

auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007

I got stuck at what is normally a routine crossing-place to Green Park.

Archive 2007-07-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

As early as 1846 it had become so great, that it was necessary to divide it into two divisions, one of which, the White Horse Plain division, was accustomed to go west by the Assinniboine River to the “rapids crossing-place,” and from there in a southwesterly direction.

"...a scale that was truly grand" Trish Short Lewis 2006

Nusseewa, and on the Arab road back to the usual crossing-place of the Rovuma, when he was murdered.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Coming down I proceeded to the next hill, which was higher; and before reaching it came to a stream in a narrow valley dividing the hills, and proceeding along its banks in search of a crossing-place, I came full in sight of the settlement sought for.

Green Mansions 2004

This had become a crossing-place for the slaves that the Portuguese agents were carrying to Tette, because they were afraid to take them across nearer to where the ship lay, about seven miles off.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Meanwhile the Ageyl amused us by fixing gun-cotton or gelatine charges about our crossing-place to as many of the rails as we had time to reach, and when our munching camels had been dragged away into safety on the far side of the line, we began, in proper order, to light the fuses, filling the hollow valley with the echoes of repeated bursts.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

He beheld a crowd of people, every person sitting with a coin of money at the crossing-place, intent on a passage.

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003