1923, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, From Place to Place, →ISBN:
Emily steps back behind a rope that a couple of hands stretches acrosst the stage; and then a couple more hands shoves a wooden runaway acrosst the orchestra rail …
2003, September Black, Run Naked in the Wind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 110:
Up and down them hills and hollers and out acrosst that Injun country, like the devil was after 'em.