These have a very odd sort of twist or cock-up in the middle, just above the part where the seeds lie; and they open at the top by ten small teeth, pointed obliquely outward for no apparent reason.
Where C D is the double Convex Glass, ready to form an inverted Picture b a: Which by the Reflection of the plain Speculum E F, plac'd obliquely in an Angle of 4 deg.
She paused, glanced obliquely at the scrawl, and shrugged.
Bessy went on, leaning back in lazy contemplation of her other letters, but still obliquely including Justine in her angle of vision.
The meaning of "obliquely thrown into" is, we think, unmistakable.
For in the parts more remote from the poles the loadstone does not draw magneticks straight down towards its own viscera; but they tend obliquely and they allure obliquely.
Illustration] The nearer the parts are to the aequinoctial, the more obliquely are magneticals allured; but the parts nearer the poles appeal more directly, at the poles quite straight.
Gilbert's complaint of the evil practice of setting the needles obliquely beneath the card, with the intention of allowing for the variation, is an echo of a similar complaint in Norman's Newe Attractiue.
In their middle portion is the circle called the zoophore, which stretches obliquely from one tropic to the other, and is divided into twelve parts, which are the twelve signs (of the zodiac).
Arctic and Antarctic, the two tropics, and the equator; that the latter circle is cut obliquely by the ecliptic, and perpendicularly by the meridian.
Sachar, advancing upon Dick with uplifted sword, "ye would pervert my followers and terrify them into deserting me!
Bob; and a cobbler gave him his knife: you know the kind of knife, worn away obliquely to a point, and always keen.
At the top of the mast are fastened ornaments of feathers, which are placed inclining obliquely forwards.
This then is the reason why, when I throw a ball obliquely against the wall, it rebounds in an opposite oblique direction, forming equal angles of incidence and of reflection.
The middle ray is sent back in the same line, in which it arrives, that being the direction of the axis of the mirror; and the two others will be reflected obliquely, as they fall obliquely on the mirror.
Certainly; and you will find that the more obliquely you throw the ball, the more obliquely it will rebound.
How is a ray refracted in passing obliquely from air into water?
A B, shall fall obliquely upon it--you see the reflected ray, B C, is marching off in another direction.
I have observed too, that the more obliquely the ball is struck against the cushion, the more obliquely it rebounds on the opposite side, so that a billiard player can calculate with great accuracy in what direction it will return.
To return now to your observation, that if a ball is thrown obliquely against the wall, it will not rebound in the same direction; tell me, have you ever played at billiards?
But where the rocks dip up stream and the river cuts obliquely across the upturned formations, harder strata above and softer below, we have rapids and falls.
In other places it is cut vertically above and obliquely below, orobliquely above and vertically below, so that it is impossible to see out overhead.
They haul on the line to bring the boat in, but the power of the current, striking obliquely against her, shoots her out into the middle of the river.
The phalanx, with obliquely pointed lances, cut through the Barbarians; there were two enormous, struggling bodies; and the wings with slings and arrows beat them back upon the phalangites.
She descended the first staircase, which ran obliquely along the first story, then the second, and the third, and stopped on the last terrace at the head of the galley staircase.
Taanach stole softly along the prows to the foot of the terrace, and from a distance she could distinguish by the light of the moon a gigantic shadow walking obliquely in the cypress avenue to the left of Salammbo, a sign which presaged death.
They were now chasing the two men obliquely across the field.
When it seemed as though their horns were touching her, the girl leaped obliquely into the ditch.
The moon had just reached the point at which it began to shine upon her window, and the shadow fell obliquely from the corner of the house, just beyond the hedge below, thus leaving a triangular space in darkness close underneath.
It was a still, warm day in spring, and at dessert the sun, which shone in obliquely through the two open windows, just reached as far as the table.
The moon had reached the point at which it shone obliquely into the window, and down upon the bed where Madeleine was sleeping.
The midday sun, which was shining over the hill at the back of the house and falling obliquely on the window, threw a ray of light for a short distance into the room.
But since the logs are laid obliquely along the sides, the upper end of the ditch is made four feet wide and the tail end, two feet.
If a vein which cuts through another principal one obliquely be the harder of the two, it penetrates right through it, just as a wedge of beech or iron can be driven through soft wood by means of a tool.
In the next place, venae profundae differ not a little in the manner in which they intersect, since one may cross through a second transversely, or one may cross another one obliquely as if cutting it in two.
For if he cuts the lower mark obliquely from the upper one some part of the possession of one mine is taken away to its detriment, and given to the other.
He has only to put his oar obliquely on the gunwale, and the transverse pressure of the current brings the boat rapidly to the other bank.
This enables it to pass obliquely through the air from one tree to another.
Once, in a bright twilight, I saw one of these animals run up a trunk in a rather open place, and then glide obliquely through the air to another tree, on which it alighted near its base, and immediately began to ascend.
Stalk, slender, short, and obliquely inserted under a fleshy protuberance.
Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, more or less fleshy, sometimes straight, but generally obliquely inserted, and occasionally united to the fruit by a fleshy protuberance on one side of it.
Stalk, an inch long, rather slender, and obliquely inserted in a round and deep cavity, which is lined with russet.
Stalk, very short, not protruding beyond the base, and having the appearance of a knob obliquely attached.
Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, obliquely inserted in a moderately deep cavity, with generally a fleshy protuberance on one side of it.
Stalk, about an inch long, sometimes obliquely inserted, by the side of a fleshy prominence, in a wide and shallow cavity.
Stalk, short, thick and fleshy, generally obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy swelling, and surrounded with a patch of rough russet.
Stalk, half-an-inch long, obliquely inserted under a fleshy lip.
Stalk, varying from half an inch to an inch long, obliquely inserted in a shallow cavity, and generally with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it.
Stalk, half-an-inch long, obliquely inserted under a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, which is a permanent and distinguishing character of this apple.
Stalk, about half-an-inch long, somewhat obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy swelling, which is more or less prominent.
Stalk, slender, three quarters of an inch long, obliquely inserted in a small cavity, by the side of a fleshy protuberance.
Stalk, half an inch long, obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy prominence.
If the mass be moving inward and downward, the direction of the rent must be obliquely upward.
The refraction is more or less, and in all cases in proportion as the rays fall more or less obliquely on the refracting surface.
At the same time she had been obliquely drawing nearer, which was the circumstance that produced the alarm.
The next minute, the two gigs came whirling round the rocks; one following the shore close in, to prevent the fugitives from landing, and the other steering more obliquely athwart the bay.
In order to do this effectually, it became necessary to spring the lugger's broadside round more obliquely toward the felucca; which accomplished, Raoul deemed his arrangements complete.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obliquely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
