All 3 Uses of
vertical
in
The Time Machine
- 'But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement.'†
Chpt 1 *
- It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.†
Chpt 3
- Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
-
(vertical) oriented straight up and down
(When you are standing, you could be thought of as vertical. When lying down, you could be thought of as horizontal.)