On the smooth face of the perpendicular rock I drew out in chalk the size of the proposed entrance, and then, with minds bent on success, we battered away.
The fall is not one perpendicular descent, but consists of three sheets of water closely succeeding each other; and, by means of a barometer, he ascertained the entire altitude to be little more than a hundred feet.
The pictures were all whole-plate Daguerreotypes, and set vertically on the perpendicular drum on which they revolved.
The branch down, and we had resumed our perpendicular positions, he simply remarked, if that was not holding on to a man's hand in friendship, he did not know what was.
This applies to interior views as well, but the ocular demonstration is not so conclusive, for the converging lines will be cut or stopped by the perpendicular wall forming the background.
A little more to the right, the rocky and precipitous face of Goat or Iris Island, with the "Biddle Stairs" like a perpendicular line running down the precipice; and to the extreme right the immense sweeps of the Great Horse Shoe.
Sometimes their base extends far beyond their perpendicular lines, and many a good ship has struck on the shoal of ice under water, when the Captain thought he was far enough away from it.
In a moment I determined to go backwards on my back, hands, and feet, until I laid hold of another bush, and could safely assume a perpendicular position.
This latter is of the usual moorland type, and in the Perpendicular style.
Adjoining the churchyard is, however, a very early church house, probably more ancient than the present Perpendicular church.
The declination axis must be perpendicular to both the hour axis and the line of sight over the pointer.
The metal must be held firmly, and the saw allowed time to make its cut, being held perpendicular to the work.
By this arrangement of two perpendicular shafts the hour axis may be directed to any point in the heavens without care as to how the tripod or pipe is set up.
Perpendicular lines are drawn parallel with the line CD intersecting the division points made on the one-half line AB.
Horizontal and parallel lines with AB are drawn intersecting the division points made on the one-quarter circle and intersecting the perpendicular line drawn parallel with CD.
A line EF drawn through the points A and C, and perpendicular to the base or style, and intersecting the semicircles, gives the 6 o'clock points.
It is, adjusted to read zero when the pointer and two axes are mutually perpendicular as shown in the picture.
The island of Sark lifted a green bosom above her perpendicular cliffs, with the pride of an affluent mother among her brood.
The singer was perched on a huge broad stone, which, lying athwart other tall perpendicular stones, made a kind of hut, approached by a pathway of upright narrow pillars, irregular and crude.
In about a hundred yards it began to widen, and they soon found themselves in a narrow valley with perpendicular sides, which seemed to widen farther up.
As a result we have a perpendicular column of Eves on one side and of Adams on the other, the light glass used to make the flesh colour forming a secondary border for the window.
The entire window is surcharged with a number of these canopy-framed figures arranged in parallel perpendicular lines.
Perhaps one reason why Bourges, when viewed from a distance, does not immediately disclose itself to be a cathedral is because one sees no perpendicular lines.
Little white villages surrounded by trees, nestle in the valleys or roost upon the lofty perpendicular sea-walls.
He rode down the perpendicular path in the rocks, from the Castle of Banias to the oak grove, at a flying gallop, his horse striding "thirty feet" at every bound.
The entrance to the cave is four feet high and four feet wide, and is in the face of a lofty perpendicular cliff--the sea-wall.
The gallery guns command the peninsula and the harbors of both oceans, but they might as well not be there, I should think, for an army could hardly climb the perpendicular wall of the rock anyhow.
Apennines), carrying upwards with them these deposits; some of the strata were so displaced that they were left in a perpendicular position, as may be seen in several places at the south side of the Isle of Wight.
What is most remarkable, these paintings are upon the perpendicular face of the rock, probably two hundred feet above the river, and in a place where there is no apparent possibility for mortal man to arrive.
But it was light enough within the enclosure formed by the perpendicularpatch of granite rock, the two waggons, and the dense mass of thorny faggots which had been gathered and built up so as to hedge them in.
The square stamp has a perpendicular wooden shaft, six or eight feet long, and six or eight inches square, with an iron shoe, weighing from a hundred to a thousand pounds.
This hose when full is from four to ten inches in diameter, and will bear a perpendicular column of water fifty feet high; but a greater height will burst it.
In working the saw, the blade must be kept perpendicular to the face of the wood.
Bore a hole at this point of intersection perpendicular to the body, and so as to fit tight on a 1/4" dowel rod.
We passed the remains of two red-deer lying at the bases of perpendicular cliffs from the summits of which they had probably been forced by the wolves.
The western shore near the Forks is destitute of trees; it is composed of lofty perpendicular cliffs which were now covered with snow.
At this place we first perceived the north end of our dipping-needle to pass the perpendicular line when the instrument was faced to the west.
It is seen from Pine Island Lake at the distance of fifty miles and cannot therefore be less than three-fourths of a mile in perpendicular height; probably the greatest elevation between the Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.
This Perpendicular building, with its Elizabethan east front, was acquired by the corporation as a memorial of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887, and houses the school of science and art.
This fine Perpendicular building contains, besides many excellent monuments, the richly carved sedilia and the twenty-eight oak seats used by the collegiate priests.
According to Righi, the amount of rotation when the plane of polarization of the incident light is perpendicular to the plane of incidence reaches a maximum when the angle of incidence is between 44 deg.
Besides being the southernmost, it is a promontory making like a foreland, and sloping very gradually as it runs towards the sea, where it ends in a perpendicular cliff.
The tracery now filling the former is in the Early Perpendicular style, and dates from the end of the fourteenth century.
They seem to have remained as left by Alexander (most probably with pyramidal roofs) for two centuries and a half; Perpendicular storeys were then added to them.
Besides the three west windows, and the upper portions of the western towers, the only other parts of the minster in the Perpendicular style are the three chantry-chapels added to the Angel Choir.
The embattled parapet which surrounds the low modern roof is in the Perpendicular style, and is, of course, later than the structure itself.
The three chantries in the Perpendicular style which have been added to the angel choir were constructed at different periods by bishops of the diocese.
The three massive oak doors are studded with iron bolts and carved with Perpendicular tracery.
The other screens are of oak, carved with Perpendicular tracery, partly in openwork; they apparently date from the latter half of the fifteenth century.
They were now raised to a height of nearly 200 feet, by the addition of early Perpendicular storeys, constructed immediately above the Norman work of Alexander the Magnificent.
The mullions which run from top to bottom of the three windows, dividing them into vertical strips, are sufficient to mark this building as of the Perpendicular period.
Elwood fell about twenty feet, striking the solid earth, without losing his own perpendicular position.
The most striking part is a mountain wall 1600 feet in perpendicular height, and having up it a zigzag path broad enough to enable a horse to ascend.
The rock, though on one side a high perpendicular wall, in no place overhung so as to form a shelter, in no place could it be more than a screen from the elements.
DM] Malham Cove is a noble amphitheatre of perpendicularlimestone rock, lying in regular strata, the height being 300 feet in the centre.
In his haste to get back to the girls he had, Indian fashion, left the trail and had struck straight up the mountain side, scaling almost perpendicular rocks and pulling himself up by anything that offered a finger hold.
Just as she was finishing this sentence, Jose's horse dropped back on his haunches, his four feet braced together, and began sliding in the loose gravel of the almost perpendicular incline.
The perpendicular height of it is about eighty feet, and the length is no less than two hundred and fifty.
The larger temples were usually built upon pyramidal parallelograms, square, or oblong, and consisted of a series of superimposed terraces with perpendicular or sloping sides.
After proceeding for some distance we reached the summit of the hill, on which grew a tree of considerable size; while opposite to it rose a perpendicular cliff, surmounted by several pointed rocks.
Looking back at the forest from which we had emerged, I was struck by its magnificent appearance, illumined as it was by the almost perpendicular rays of the sun, which caused the broad leaves of the trees to shine with dazzling brilliancy.
We had proceeded along the terrace; one mountain rose directly in front of us, with a perpendicular face of great height.
Dark rocks of varied forms rose in lofty perpendicular walls on one hand, while torrents dashed down the mountain-sides on the other.
