endwise
Example Sentences
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It was carefully arranged out of the eyes of peacock feathers, exactly as if a stiff peacock fan had been erected endwise on his head.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Its thick leaves form also its branches, each leaf being attached to its neighbor endwise, like links of a chain, and being bordered by a bright yellow ruffle of profuse blossoms.
From The Pearl of India by Maturin Murray Ballou
A straw has been known to penetrate the body of a tree endwise by the extreme velocity imparted to it when carried in the vortex of a tornado.
From Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. by Elisha Gray
Prone like a crawling band of scouts, endwise like battering-rams, not upright with green banners waving, Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane to fight King Frost.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
It is fixed on slides so that it can move to and fro endwise.
