broadside

Example Sentences

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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 Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

We saw her hobbling along broadwise, hugging her half-pint measure in her short turtle-like arms, the carrot slices of her cheek-bones reddening as she already staggered with hope.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

Four foot out, broadwise, along the side of the Spit, there's a shelf of rock, about half fathom down under the sand.

From The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie

The few who but an instant's look have had At the spread pattern broadwise have gone mad.

From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Too much of him longwise, too little of him broadwise, and too many sharp angles of him angle-wise.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles