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 Melville, Herman

It is fixed on slides so that it can move to and fro endwise.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.

The shell d is secured to h by the screws i, which pass through slots in a, and therefore move endwise when h is operated by its hand-lever.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

The school children sat on forms placed endwise down the centre aisle.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard