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
Once, I saw an immense-sized coffin, endwise pushed through a lower window by three men who did not speak; and watching, I saw it pushed out again, and they drove off with it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
In small engines the link is moved endwise for forward or backward gear by a simple arrangement of hand levers.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Here and there stone slabs stuck up, planted endwise in the earth like gravestones in a cemetery.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The further bending of the pieces thus treated is accomplished by placing them endwise upon the anvil-block, as shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
