Both Uses of
oblong
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It had taken one instant, but in the next his foot went down on the brake, tearing the engine to a stop: for in the moment when his headlights had swept the ravine, he had glimpsed an oblong shape, darker than the gray of the weeds on the slope, and it had seemed to him that a brief white blur had been a human hand waving for help.†
Chpt 3.6
- The pale, oblong smear at the level of his elbow was the face of Wesley Mouch, who was seated on the floor.†
Chpt 3.8 *
Definition:
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(oblong) an elongated shape -- typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle