across lots

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across lots

  1. Alternative form of cross lots (via a shortcut)
    • 1838, Joseph Clay Neal, “Fydget Fyxington”, in Charcoal Sketches[1], Book One, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, published 1865, page 221:
      You're a leveller I see, and wouldn't mind knocking me down flat as a pancake, if so be you could run away and get out of this scrape — you're a 'grarium, and would cut across the lot like a streak of lightning if you had a chance.
    • 1848, James Russell Lowell, “The Two Gunners”, in The Biglow Papers:
      An' jest ez they wuz settin' down / To take their noonin', Joe looked roun' / And see (acrost lots in a pond / That warn't mor'n twenty rod beyond) / A goose that on the water sot / Ez ef awaitin' to be shot.
    • 1857 July 26, Brigham Young, Sermon at the Bowery in Salt Lake City:
      I swore in Nauvoo, when my enemies were looking me in the face, that I would send them to hell across lots if they meddled with me; and I ask no more odds of all hell today!
    • 1899, Alice Brown, “A Last Assembling”, in Tiverton Tales:
      She chose to go 'cross lots, not because in this case it was nearer than the road, but because it seemed impossible to go another way.
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