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Abreast

adjective

Being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge. Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on. "Constant revision keeps the book au courant" , "Always au fait on the latest events" , "Up on the news"

adverb

Alongside each other, facing in the same direction.

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"Abreast" Quotes from Famous Books

... man who lay before him. But his mind was made up as to the spy's intentions. Villainy was plainly foreshadowed. He drew his knife from his belt. The footfalls of the traveller were now audible. He came abreast of the lurking foe; he passed him. There was a sudden leap; then another. A steel blade flashed in the sunlight. The song ceased and the singer turned. Another second and the dagger would have been in his breast. But at the fateful moment of time the stroke was arrested by Morgan's ...

— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan

... quartered his little troop of sixty men on the side of a deep and swift-running river, that had very steep and rocky banks. There was but one ford by which this river could be crossed in that neighborhood, and that ford was deep and narrow, so that two men could scarcely get through abreast; the ground on which they were to land on the side where the king was, was steep, and the path which led upward from the water's edge to the top of the bank, extremely ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester

... a long, narrow slit, roaringly ventilated by a whirling machine, lined in frocks suspended from hangers, and just wide enough for two very perfect thirty-sixes to stand abreast, August fell heavily. So heavily that occasionally a cloak-model, her lot to show next December's conceit in theater wraps, fainted on the show-dais; or a cloth-of-gold evening gown, donned for the twentieth time that sweltering day, would suddenly, with its model, crumple, ...

— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst

... stopped. But gaps occurred from the resistance that it encountered. Hundreds penetrated into the gaps in the phalanx and killed the men embarrassed with their long pikes. They were effective only when united, abreast, and at shaft's length. There was frightful disorder and butchery; twenty thousand killed, five thousand captured out of forty-four thousand engaged! The historian does not deem it worth while to speak of the ...

— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq

... just taken their seats when the Captain's wife came in. They really would have hid their faces, and looked at the bonnet afterwards, but for the startling sight that met the gaze of the congregation. The old grandfather walked into the church abreast ...

— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various

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