Horizontally

Examples

• Wemmick leaned back in his chair, staring at me, with his hands in the pockets of his trousers, and his pen put horizontally into the post. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In some the pug mill is arranged horizontally to feed out the clay in the form of a long horizontal slab, which is cut up into proper lengths to form the bricks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In 1806 Gladstone devised a front-draft, side-cut machine, in which a curved segment-bar with fingers gathered the grain and held it while a horizontally revolving knife cut the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A turbine is a wheel usually placed horizontally to the water. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He turned his head to the right and looking up saw Primitivo's rifle raised and lowered four times horizontally. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The adoption of the Paixhans long-chambered guns, designed to throw heavy shells horizontally as well as at a slight elevation and as easily as solid shot, was attended with great results. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The oranges then pass over automatic sizers--that is, V-shaped rollers revolving horizontally. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A fluid, moving from all points horizontally towards a centre, must, at that centre, either ascend or descend. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was during that decade that, in the United States, Batcheller invented the perpetual feed for moving the cloth horizontally under and past the needle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the arrangement of the mechanism of this boat, the cylinder was placed horizontally, for the purpose of making connection between the paddle-wheel and the piston, without the working beam. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The man seemed to be resting horizontally in the air, with one hand touching the stile. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The cylinders are placed horizontally, and they are generally fixed inside the boiler, to prevent the cooling of the steam. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When the cutters are straight and arranged horizontally, it is a simple _planer_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In that machine the type cylinder is placed horizontally, by which means the paper is supplied directly to it without altering its direction. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In 1799 Boyce, of England, invented the vertical shaft, with horizontally rotating cutters. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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