An old, rotten log lay across his path.
The others were waiting for him among the trees at the foot of a low range of wooded hills which lay right across their path.
This time, it was a swiftly flowing stream cf pain-a river that lay across her path.
They both knew a day of reckoning lay across their path no matter what they did.
She reached a moraine, an unbroken wall of boulders that lay across her path.
A fallen tree lay across his path and he hurdled it effortlessly.
It lay across their path, a black snake of tarmac, rain-soaked and unprotected.
They were several miles long and lay directly across her path.
They came upon something which lay still across their path, like a great serpent.
Ibrahim lay across his path, eyes open and staring, blood soaking the front of his uniform.