Too much of him longwise, too little of him broadwise, and too many sharp angles of him anglewise. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Now as cockal bones do not take up as much room when they fall upon one end as when they fall flat, so every one of us at the beginning sitting broadwise, and with a full face to the table, afterwards changes the figure, and turns his depth, not his breadth, to the board. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Latin scribes held their stiff-nibbed reed pens almost directly upright and at right angles to the writing surface, so that a down stroke from left to right and slanted at an angle of about forty-five degrees would bring the nib across the surface broadwise, resulting in the widest line possible to the pen. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference
The canvas-covered wagons ranged themselves, broadwise, in a straight line with the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Too much of him longwise, too little of him broadwise, and too many sharp angles of him angle-wise. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Four foot out, broadwise, along the side of the Spit, there's a shelf of rock, about half fathom down under the sand. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
With building corporate team broadwise to alex varsity who bookishness to set all this up and emma lubricator for destructible the runch. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Slowly the edge parted and flattened out, broadwise, displaying the marbled brilliance of the butterfly's inner wings, illumining the pale chastity of the sleeping figure as if with a quivering and evanescent jewel. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
Four foot out, broadwise, along the side of the Spit, there’s a shelf of rock, about half fathom down under the sand. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
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