Angles

Examples

• Once--unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They had worked with their gliders several years, and had made new calculations of the changing angles and currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There were fortifications at intervals along the line and at the angles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We may approach it, so to speak, from any one of the angles provided by its connections. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In the construction of a temple or a pyramid not merely was it necessary to have regard to the points of the compass, but care must be taken to have the sides at right angles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Several attempts have been made to remedy this defect, and to produce what is called feathering floats, every one of which will act against the water at right angles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I fixedly looked at the street-stones, where the door-lamp shone, and counted them and noted their shapes, and the glitter of wet on their angles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The squares are to enable the player to properly judge the angles of play. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Jo's angles are much softened, she has learned to carry herself with ease, if not grace. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In this case one of the angles at the back of the box is not apparent, but the colored stripes prevent the spectator from noticing the fact. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Not Angles, but Angels, said he, had they but the gospel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was in that year that Ampère discovered that magnetism is the circulation of currents of electricity at right angles to the axis of the needle or bar joining the two poles of the magnet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Curtiss, an American, saw an Antoinette aeroplane approaching him at right angles, and flying upon the same level. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In short, it was out of all compass miserable, and out of all rules, or direct right angles, or parallel lines. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Too much of him longwise, too little of him broadwise, and too many sharp angles of him angle-wise. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In answer to his inquiries, he was told that they were Angles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As Archer entered he was smiling and looking down on his hostess, who sat on a sofa placed at right angles to the chimney. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Eager with sympathy, you and your work are reflected from many angles. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Half way down this staircase is a small landing, with another passage running into it at right angles. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is, indeed, an extremely neat, snug little place, with well-kept homes, mostly of frame construction, and flagged streets crossing each other at right angles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He afterwards introduced other improvements in the Kaleidoscope, for extending its range of objects, for varying the angles of inclination, and for projecting the figures on a screen. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• This halftone screen is a glass plate ruled with lines at right angles ranging, for different purposes, from 60 to 200 lines to the inch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For example, Thales saw that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal, and that when two straight lines cut one another the vertically opposite angles are equal. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And again, on the basis of his knowledge of the relation of the sides of a triangle to its angles, he developed a practical rule for ascertaining the distance of a ship from the shore. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The extension of these arms on one side or the other, either separately or together, and at different angles, constituted a variety of signals sufficient for the purposes of communication. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But nothing can never be a cause, no more than it can be something, or equal to two right angles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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