It is out of fear of what is known as squareness that we rarely say what we really think or feel. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
TOS looked at its "squareness" in the episode with the hippies, I think. From Wordnik.com. [Better Things for Better Living or Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky] Reference
Worst of all, he will lose confidence in the "squareness" of his employer. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste] Reference
A beautiful soundness of body, a seemingly exhaustless vitality, and a certain "squareness" of character as well as of mind, gave Cressida. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and the Bright Medusa] Reference
Use a shaped valance to disguise the squareness of a window. From Wordnik.com. [Window Dressing (Tips!)] Reference
Check the arranged boards for squareness by means of the try square. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Figure 27 Checking of squareness of the wide face to the narrow face. From Wordnik.com. [5. Planing of Narrow Faces] Reference
The squareness of the stairwell is checked on the lower floor-ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [4. Taking off Dimensions at the Stairwell] Reference
I bet your aunt will see the squareness of this offer if you put it right. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield of Silence] Reference
The flatness and squareness to all sides of the narrow face are checked by. From Wordnik.com. [6. Planing of End-grained Narrow Faces (Sectional Areas)] Reference
A one-ounce square costs 58 cents, including a 17-cent surcharge for squareness. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Be a Square] Reference
After its completion the try square can be used as a testing tool for squareness. From Wordnik.com. [1. Objectives and contents of the practical vocational training in the working technique of Riveting] Reference
Hitherto the Major had fought his battles with a certain adherence to squareness. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
His face, too, had taken on this squareness, and his smile had completely faded away. From Wordnik.com. [Psychosphere]
There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
It had a clean sweep of clapboards, a solid squareness, a small tower, and a large screened porch. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
I did what I could to hammer them into the squareness demanded by military protocol, but to no avail. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
This specimen has a squareness of outline and an evenness of surface not observed in the ancient examples. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
And yet she was very much afraid of him as she saw the squareness of his forehead, and the set of his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [John Caldigate] Reference
There was no mistaking the poise of the head, the squareness of the shoulders, the sharpness of the features. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Empty House] Reference
Finally assemble the whole, inserting, if necessary, a temporary diagonal brace to insure squareness, Fig. 294. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
I followed slowly, at a loss to know what to do, my eyes glued on the inviting squareness of their heavy packs. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
Bevelled steel straightedge and bevelled edge square shall be used to test the flatness and squareness of faces. From Wordnik.com. [1. Objectives and contents of practical vocational training in the working techniques of Measuring and Testing] Reference
The first point to be observed in regard to the general form of the Roman capital is its characteristic squareness. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference
A good way to insure squareness, is to insert a diagonal brace on the inside, corner to corner, as in Fig. 294, p. 195. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
· One of the easiest and most accurate methods of checking large distances for squareness is to compare the diagonals. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
The very essential and fundamental quality of a Roman letter lies in the squareness or circularity of its skeleton form. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference
Form gauges are used to determine whether the requirements as to flatness, squareness, roundness or other forms are met. From Wordnik.com. [3. Testing Tools] Reference
The house rose along the farther side of the enclosure, its squareness relieved by stone facing, marble, granite, jasper. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
The surface of the work should be tested for squareness by holding the edge of the chisel or a straight edge across the face. From Wordnik.com. [A Course In Wood Turning] Reference
Put the builder's square on the upper ceiling at the opening intended for the stairs to be built in and check for squareness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
After each cut is made the end should be tested for squareness by holding the edge of the chisel over the end of the cylinder. From Wordnik.com. [A Course In Wood Turning] Reference
Next to this typical squareness of outline, the observer should note that the Roman letter is composed of thick and thin lines. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference
Whoever looked on the forehead of the good Doctor must have seen the squareness of ideality giving marked effect to its outline. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
Wiley is in this affair simply on a business deal as he told you to-day, although I doubt the squareness as far as he is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
We retreat a little way and find a sort of angle, an elevation in the sod, a suggested squareness amid the mass of irregularities around. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
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