It not only enables them to keep
abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
It kept a-coming, and when it was abreast of me I see there warn't but one man in it.
I watched it come creeping down, and when it was most abreast of where I stood I heard a man say, "Stern oars, there!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
There is a guard of sundry horsemen riding
abreast of the tumbrils, and faces are often turned up to some of them, and they are asked some question.
Tale Of Two Cities
One magnificent evening, the 30th July (that is to say, three weeks after our departure), the frigate was
abreast of Cape Blanc, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia.
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
The docks down the river,
abreast of Woolwich, are imposing by their proportions and the vast scale of the ugliness that forms their surroundings - ugliness so picturesque as to become a delight to the eye.
Mirror of the Sea
I opened the bight of Turner's Shipyard, rounded the Solano wharf, and surged along
abreast of the patch of tules and the clustering fishermen's arks where in the old days I had lived and drunk deep.
John Barleycorn
We could not see the Acropolis now or the high hill, either, and I wanted to follow the road till we were
abreast of them, but the others overruled me, and we toiled laboriously up the stony hill immediately in our front--and from its summit saw another--climbed it and saw another!
The Innocents Abroad
"Ride by my side, friends, I entreat of you," said the knight, reining in his steed that they might come abreast of him.
Down this, as they came abreast of it, there walked two men, the one a pace or two behind the other.
The White Company
Buck, on the bank, worried and anxious, kept abreast of the boat, his eyes never off his master.
He discovered the mistake too late, when Thornton was abreast of him and a bare half-dozen strokes away while he was being carried helplessly past.
The Call of the Wild
Whereas if we had only had a little more wind, only a very little more, we might, we should, have been abreast of Liant by this time and increasing our distance from that contaminated shore.
For, as the sun was setting, we had drawn abreast of Cape Liant and dropped it behind us: an ominous re- treating shadow in the last gleams of twilight.
The Shadow Line
Three big wolves got
abreast of the horses, and the horses went crazy.
My Antonia