In one of Lincoln's earliest military problems was involved the process of getting his company "endwise" through a gate. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference
"endwise" by Mr. Hurley's practised fists after Hayne was struck down by the corporal's musket. From Wordnik.com. [The Deserter] Reference
Thorby turned and started dodging traffic endwise. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Of The Galaxy]
It was made of gigantic boulders stabbed endwise into the ground. From Wordnik.com. [An Heroic Tale in an Enormous Tomb « A Fly in Amber] Reference
"Now, what's knocked her endwise?" groaned Davy, staring blankly at. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Three benches set endwise to the platform served for the choir, and there was. From Wordnik.com. [Women of the Country] Reference
It would have been much better to have had double doors swinging endwise of the car. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Soon they came to a giant club stuck endwise in the ground, the thorny business end up. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
The coffins were lifted endwise, and the dead Germans flung out upon their faces on the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
These obviously could not be wielded endwise like daggers, but would be devastating as slicers. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
A small narrow book that opened endwise and had the name of the Bank of Colebyville on it was all. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
He provides an arrangement for moving the cylinder endwise, according to the different widths of the pieces to be treated. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
The soup is eaten with a bowl-like spoon, and it is the grossest breach to place this in your mouth, or approach it, endwise. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
Now, on a signal, four slaves rolled into the Audience Chamber what appeared to be a huge table set up endwise between two posts. From Wordnik.com. [Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore] Reference
Somers put on his jacket and went and sat on the form that was placed endwise at the side of the fire, facing the side of the judgment table. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Nearly all are great oblong barns, turned endwise to the road, 50, 60, and even 100 feet long, with the end nearest the road the dwelling-house. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The pike tugged at the line till the birch canoe stood almost endwise, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose] Reference
The place did used to turn me endwise at first, it was so white and awesome. From Wordnik.com. [Walter and the Wireless] Reference
There were some two score of these last, set up endwise in small wooden racks. From Wordnik.com. [The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill] Reference
These sheets were then perforated endwise with the regular perforation and issued. From Wordnik.com. [The Stamps of Canada] Reference
Some people, therefore, describe a char à banc as a sofa placed endwise on wheels. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Switzerland] Reference
But, to make it still more plain: is not DISTANCE a line turned endwise to the eye?. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
The process is much more like putting Oxford-street endwise, and laying gas along it, than anything else. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
It consisted of a rough parallelogram enclosed by flat stones set upright and embedded endwise in the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
My father's house, in this good village, standing endwise to the street, was higher at one end than at the other. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
For as soon as he had removed the beaker the heavy bath had jumped endwise from under his hand as though it were alive. From Wordnik.com. [The Skylark of Space] Reference
You may perhaps look with a smile on the profusion of Latin mottoes -- some crawling endwise up the shaft of a pillar, some issuing on. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference
The wood was thrown on endwise, crosswise, or any way, so that it would burn, precisely as a crowd of boys make a bonfire on the village green. From Wordnik.com. [Woodcraft] Reference
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