I saw in the Grand Cañon of the Colorado where they were laid down horizontally on the old Azoic or original rocks, as if by the hand of a mason building the foundation of a superstructure.
With the case in a well lighted room, I should prefer to have outer doors to the case, made of ordinary board six or eight inches wide, hinged to one end, and arranged to swing horizontally across the front of the case.
To open it, it is grasped by the extremities and drawn apart horizontally so as to bring it into the position shown in Fig.
At the next inspiration the end B, is moved horizontally to the left as shown by the dart, M, until the glottis shows at the right edge of the field, C.
Upon entering the right bronchus, the handle of the bronchoscope is turned horizontally to the right, and at the same time the assistant deflects the head to the left.
When the head is dropped, it must at the same time be moved horizontally to the right in order that the axis of the tube shall correspond to the axis of the lower third of the esophagus, which deviates to the left and turns anteriorly.
The handle, H, is always horizontally to the right.
The passenger steps from a sideway at rest to one in moderate motion, and from this to a second one moving more rapidly, and in this way can be carried horizontally at a fair rate of speed.
A tightly stretched leather strap extends horizontally from the upper end of the arc back to the post, where it is fastened with a swivel screw.
They have hitherto bored to the depth of sixty feet, and found nothing but the purest coal; they have however, dug but forty feet deep, and prefer working horizontally rather than perpendicularly.
In this factory they were cut by horizontally moving shears, and at the same time the heads were formed by a hammer.
The fine flour passes through a trough to a place where it is spread by a horizontally revolving rake, to be cooled; after this it runs by a spout to the ground floor, where it is packed in oaken barrels.
The whole lower wall consists of roots of trees, mostly cedar, placed horizontally crosswise, and only those roots which constitute the revetement stand upright.
For each compass direction of birds flying horizontally above the earth, there is one, and only one, slant of the pathway across the moon at a given time.
There were no trees upon the surface of the meadow itself, but against the rocks grew many kinds; some of them hanging with their tops downward, and some stretching horizontally outwards.
Then the concentrated solution is transferred to the vat in which rods are placed horizontally and vertically, to which it adheres when cold, and if there be much, it is condensed in three or four days into saltpetre.
Don't hold out the arms horizontallyfrom the shoulders, for that is tiring and ungraceful.
The ski will not only be stronger and more springy, but will wear better and run faster if cut so that the grain lies horizontally (Fig.
This curve, indeed, eventually becomes so gradual that before the ski has turned far enough to point horizontally across the slope and come to a standstill, the line of its track is practically straight.
Thanks to the possibility of producing behind Eusapia an illumination which she did not suspect, we were able to see one of her arms, very skilfully withdrawn from our control, move along horizontally behind the curtain and touch the arm of M.
At the last the levitation was such that the dynamometer rested horizontally on the table.
A little paper wheel, placed vertically or horizontally upon its axis was put into rapid movement by the radiations which darted from this child's wrist and the bend of her arm.
This box is made to travel by clock-work horizontally in front of the moving index, and it contains a sheet of plate-glass which has been smoked over a flame.
To the moving index, O, of the spring balance, a fine steel point is soldered, projecting horizontally outwards.
The table is shown horizontally lifted,--a fact proved by the interval between the extremity of each foot and the extremity of the corresponding projected shadow.
If a card be supported on two nails driven horizontally close together into an upright board (see Fig.
Adjust the glass plate so that it hangs horizontally and just touches the surface of clean water, the under side being completely wet.
A helix is placed horizontally with its north-seeking pole toward the north.
Place several screw hooks on one edge with one set at O where the board will hang horizontallywhen the board is suspended there.
The whole extent of country between the range and the coast, seemed to be of sandstone, either horizontally stratified, or dipping off the range; with the exception of some local disturbances, where basalt had broken through it.
One large buck that I measured stood three feet and seven inches high at the shoulders, and when the ears were extended horizontally the distance across from tip to tip was two feet and one inch.
They extend horizontally in opposite directions, and form a beautiful glossy ground, over which the one large down-looking flower is swung from a simple stem, the petals being strongly recurved, like those of Lilium superbum.
In most cases all the exactness needed can be obtained by comparing all lines carefully with the pencil or brush handle held horizontally or vertically, and studying the angle any line makes with it.
You mark off a number of points horizontallyand vertically on the study.
You should have also a plumb-line with which to test vertical positions of parts in relation to each other, and this, with the pencil held horizontally for other relative positions, gives you all you need in that direction.
If a cutting instrument were passed horizontally from before backward, a little below M, it would first open the abdomen, then pierce the arching diaphragm, and pass into the thorax, opposite the ninth or eighth dorsal vertebra.
It runs very much at the root in all directions horizontally just below the surface of the soil.
The leaves, which are of a bright green, smooth, and very much divided, are chiefly collected at the base of the plant, from which they extend horizontally on stalks from 20 ins.
From the tops of the erect black stems the fronds branch and spread horizontally in a very graceful and peculiar manner.
The rootstocks spread horizontally under the mud in places where the plant grows, continuing to throw up stems as they creep along.
Take a small stick of deal or other wood the size of a goose quill, and hold it horizontally and steadily in the flame of the candle above the wick, without touching it, but in the body of the flame.
An iron frame is placed just under the breast, and extending quite to the back of the chimney, so that a plate of the same metal may slide horizontally backwards and forwards in the grooves on each side of the frame.
The carpentry of the roof being formed with its proper descents, is, in the first place, sheeted or covered with deals, nailed horizontally upon the rafters, after the same manner as when intended to be covered with lead.
The spindle, which is of hard iron, lies horizontally from end to end of the box within, exactly in the middle, and is made to turn on brass gudgeons at each end.
The branches are thrown out horizontally from the parent trunk.
Its limbs stretch out horizontally or tend upward with an appearance of strength to the very extremity; in the American elm they are almost universally drooping at the end.
Generally the roots of pine trees are small, compared with the size of the trunks, and spreadhorizontally instead of descending far into the ground.
Solitary trees are sometimes seen in this part of the country, and the branches, extending themselves horizontally to a great distance, spread out into a spacious head, which gives them a very majestic appearance.
The foliage of the third group of capitals on the north side consists of a single leaf which runs horizontallyround the caps.
Horizontally the front divides itself naturally into four parts--the plain base, which is high enough to contain the full height of the small north and south doorways.
To feather an oar in rowing, is to turn the blade horizontally with the top aft as it comes out of the water.
When the lubber-hole is high enough to clear the mast-head, haul on the forward guy, and let the top hang horizontally by the girt-lines.
Pieces of timber put in horizontally between the frames to form and secure any opening; as, for ports.
The divisions runninghorizontally represent centimeters of water or of mercury, according to the strength of the spring, M, which should be so constructed as to be in relation with the pressure.
According to his idea, which is now familiar to every one, a cannon-ball dropped from the level of the cannon's muzzle will strike the ground simultaneously with a ball fired horizontally from the cannon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horizontally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: evenly; flat; flush; lengthwise; level
