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Example sentences for "perpendicular wall"

  • He had not to deal with a perpendicular wall, but with one which sloped away beneath him.

  • At last I reached a point at which the snow melted as it fell, and not long after the glacier stopped abruptly, a considerable stream issuing from beneath the perpendicular wall by which it terminated.

  • At the distance of perhaps five hundred yards there was another glacier, which descended from a valley in the northern range of mountains, and, like the one on which I stood, presented a perpendicular wall to the little lake.

  • In one case a mound forty-five feet in height supports a building twenty by forty-three feet, of the ordinary type, except that its southern front is a perpendicular wall, thirty feet high above the cornice over the doorways.

  • Our course takes us along the crest of a rocky ridge and beneath a perpendicular wall of basalt over a thousand feet in height.

  • The upper side is often a perpendicular wall of hard snow from ten to fifty feet high.

  • Passing around into the bay, the gaunt eastern face of this enormous promontory is found to be a perpendicular wall of the rawest granite, standing sixteen hundred feet straight up from the water.

  • The ledge over which it tumbles is a perpendicular wall, straight and regular in formation, and almost without fragments of rock at the foot, so that the fall is a clear one.

  • The banks on either side are quite high, with foliage crowning their summits, and between is a perpendicular wall of dark-brown rocks making the cataract, having a sort of diagonal stratification that breaks the sombre face into rifts.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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