This red line runs perpendicularly to the green line. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And even at Södermalm, where the mountain rises perpendicularly from the strand, they began to build. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Nils] Reference
Before long they came to the Bald-Face Bluffs — huge walls of rock which rose perpendicularly from the river. From Wordnik.com. [Chased By The Trail] Reference
A display popped up, showing the three chosen rocks in a split screen, the dark spikes of the broken missiles sticking out perpendicularly from the surface. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
There was no way of penetrating the island from our cove, for the walls rose perpendicularly from the beach, and, on either side of the cove, rose from the deep water. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 29] Reference
A needle must be stuck into the lower mandible perpendicularly. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The precipice towers perpendicularly many hundred feet above you. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
It ran almost perpendicularly to Crater Lake, beyond which it was easier going. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
I felt as if a line were drawn perpendicularly through my body, dividing it in halves. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
The tongue is to be split perpendicularly lengthwise and about one-third of it removed. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
Gobelin stitch is sometimes worked quite perpendicularly just over two threads in height. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
Take care to bore perpendicularly to the surface, see Fig. 137, p. 86, and no deeper than necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Great boulders edged the hillside, and masses of rock hung perpendicularly above the surface of the ground. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Opening the trap door, the four friends descended the short length of ladder that led perpendicularly downward. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
When he had raised the bow of the flying machine at the start she had shot up almost perpendicularly into the air. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
On the west side of Stony Creek are mountains rising to a great height, and almost perpendicularly from the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
A has shuffled the markers and arranged them perpendicularly in front of him, placing the wind box in second position. From Wordnik.com. [Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling] Reference
This magnificent natural fortress rises perpendicularly to a height of 1300 feet from the purple waves of the Mediterranean. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Then, above the architrave and perpendicularly over the lower tier of columns, columns one fourth smaller should be imposed. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
It is usually taken perpendicularly over four threads of the canvas (fig. 82), though the number over which it is taken may vary. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
In filing a rip-saw the file should move exactly perpendicularly to the plane of the saw blade, that is, directly across the teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
He ordered me to go to the extreme left of our line, form perpendicularly to the rear of Baird's division, connecting with his left. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
There is a fishing industry at Malta, some of the more extensive bays being completely interlaced with huge nets sunken perpendicularly. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
To print, the frame should be placed in the light in such a manner as the luminous rays fall perpendicularly upon the drawing or cliché. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
Sometime between the years 1840 and 1850, a machine was invented in which books were clamped, and a heavy knife descended perpendicularly. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
After journeying in this manner for about a mile, I entered a cañon, whose walls ascended to a height of thousands of feet, perpendicularly. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
By his advice the heroes had seated themselves on the benches of the galley, with their oars held perpendicularly, ready to let fall into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
T-shaped posts, which extended perpendicularly from the ground to a height of 28 ft., being secured at top and bottom by a system of guy ropes and posts. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
We had dressed perpendicularly, whilst she had her flags fore and aft, running up to her flying jib-boom from the water, and down to the gaff on her mizzen. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
The cathode rays, for instance, were found to shoot forth into space perpendicularly from the surface of the cathode, without regard to the position of the anode. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The common carotid artery ascends the cervical region almost perpendicularly from opposite the sterno-clavicular articulation to the greater cornu of the os hyoides. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
And indeed, a road round this Lower Pond would be a considerable undertaking, the shores are so steep and high, the rocks often rising perpendicularly from the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Like the chisel in cutting convex outlines, it is pushed or driven perpendicularly thru the wood laid flat on a cutting board on the bench, as in perpendicular chiseling. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
By means of floats the nets hang perpendicularly in the water, thus forming a long wall against which the fish "strike," and get enmeshed by being caught in the gill opening. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Across the river, and in front of us, rises nearly perpendicularly a group of mountains, the summits of which are broken into many beautifully cut conical and pyramidal peaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
These horns were from six to eight inches long, black and shiny, slender and round, rising from the forehead perpendicularly, and curving sharply at the extremities into hooks. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
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