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  • In other habitats, the rim of sky above the horizontal is broken or obscured; here, together with the overhead portion, it is infinitely vaster than that of rolling countryside and forest lands....In an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes grandly reflecting the earth's curvature on their concave undersides.†   (source)
  • The raft sprang from the roof and wrapped around the plane's horizontal stabilizer.†   (source)
  • He won't make a fuss, he won't drop me, he'll make sure I travel in level, horizontal safely on this last, short voyage of mine.†   (source)
  • The missing letter was an H, he was sure of it—index and middle finger extended horizontally from a closed hand.†   (source)
  • The astronomy minister tried to explain, but discovered that his two feet had already left the ground and he was now horizontal.†   (source)
  • That horizontal line at the limit of sight?†   (source)
  • The top of his head was bald and pointy, yet he had the most impressive jowls I have ever seen, and his narrow shoulders gave way to a massive stomach that looked like the base of a mountain, except that the mountain stood in thin air, for it stopped abruptly and disappeared horizontally into his pants.†   (source)
  • Their square configurations make them impractical for use in crucifixion, and their balanced vertical and horizontal elements convey a natural union of male and female, making them symbolically consistent with Priory philosophy.†   (source)
  • Thomas could see several clumsily prepared wooden crosses poking through this growth, their horizontal pieces lashed to the upright ones with a splintery twine.†   (source)
  • But countless abuses had stretched the vertical fibers apart and weakened the horizontal ones beyond use.†   (source)
  • Thereafter, each morning, Kabuo practiced his kendo strokes—the vertical slash that would split a man's head down the bridge of the nose, leaving one eye on each side, the skull cleaved into two parts; the four diagonal strokes—from left and right, upward and downward—that would cleave a man beneath a rib or disjoin an arm deftly; the horizontal stroke swinging in from the left that could sever a man just above the hips; and, finally, the most common of kendo strokes, a horizontal thrust a right-handed man could propel with great force against the left side of his enemy's head.†   (source)
  • I remember distinctly a boy named Miles twice peeing his pants, and, with the exception of a kid named Garrison (who I'm certain had some sort of restless leg syndrome), everyone else in the room seemed to actually enjoy the horizontal break.†   (source)
  • It was a terrible game, but for the time being, Mae needed it, because her head was spinning, and she felt better horizontal.†   (source)
  • Thousands upon thousands of trees in the red glow of sundown, perfectly shaped and perfectly aligned, vertically and horizontally, like squares in a million-square grid.†   (source)
  • And I looked and I could see a building with writing at the top, but it was a long way away so it was hard to read, and I said, "Do you mean the stripy building with the horizontal windows?"†   (source)
  • A
    AARDVARK, a silly-looking creature that eats ants
    AARGH, what the aardvark says when it eats ants
    ABACUS, a finger-powered computer ABSCISSA, the horizontal truth†   (source)
  • "They have a long, flattened tail—the tail lies horizontally on the water," Charlie told me.†   (source)
  • It looked the same as it had back then, branches low and thick,stretching horizontally along the ground with Spanish moss draped over the limbs like a veil.†   (source)
  • It was a great broad flat thing, sticking out horizontally from the trunk and mostly shrouded in a cascade of hanging vines from high above.†   (source)
  • I draw a horizontal line for the ground and a daisy popping up next to the tree.†   (source)
  • At first sight it seemed that an enormous horizontal door was flying up the road toward them.†   (source)
  • After a quick examination of its external plating, she tipped the android over, laying it horizontal so that it balanced on the edge of its treads.†   (source)
  • His neat pencil mustache divided his upper lip horizontally into half and ended exactly in line with the ends of his mouth.†   (source)
  • She couldn't get over the fact that Park spent most of his time in this room horizontal.†   (source)
  • Holly swivelled horizontal and pointed the docking nodes at the lights.†   (source)
  • The thought of sleep, horizontal sleep, suddenly overwhelmed her.†   (source)
  • The only way up is to straddle their legs across two adjoining boxcars, using the horizontal ridges on the ends of the cars to inch higher.†   (source)
  • In the end he just started in the middle and worked to the ends, tying the strips of moose hide crosswise, fastened to each side, making horizontal strips about two inches apart, each strap pulled tight and tied off in a double knot.†   (source)
  • The symbol on the bone was a long horizontal line with a circle resting on it.†   (source)
  • It was the volleyball shot: Martha bent horizontal to the floor, reaching, the palms of her hands in sharp focus.†   (source)
  • Instead of bird wings, the monster's wings ran across the top of its back—long, horizontal, and bristly like a pair of upside-down steel brushes.†   (source)
  • All around him early prototypes of Redd's numerous inventions were on display in spotlit alcoves: a seeker with the body of a tuttle-bird and the head of a gwormmy; a dry, withered shrub that had been Naturcide's first kill; a Two Card from The Cut, half steel and half flesh, more vulnerable and not as mobile as the card soldiers that eventually made it to production; a preliminary model of the rose roller; a Glass Eye with one long horizontal crystal for vision-intake instead of the more humanoid orbs in two sockets; even an early version of The Cat himself, with smaller claws and (as The Cat himself liked to think) not as good-looking as the completed assassin had turned out.†   (source)
  • After we had put on the new attire, we formed a horizontal line with legs apart and hands straight down at our sides.†   (source)
  • Finally, she was horizontal—or must have been because blades of wild onion were scratching her temple and her cheek.†   (source)
  • Black curls reached to her shoulders, her eyebrows were two dark lines dabbed horizontally across a wide brow, and her nose was solid and sharp, intensifying the aquiline quality of her stare.†   (source)
  • The consonants would be horizontal then?†   (source)
  • I rolled back over and unbuttoned my jeans, yanking them off awkwardly as I tried to stay horizontal.†   (source)
  • The basket took a hard hit as we crash-landed in the field, hopped a few times, bouncing all around, and then tilted almost horizontally.†   (source)
  • The river meanwhile does separate the land on a horizontal axis but connects along a vertical axis, making it possible for people at one end to travel to the other.†   (source)
  • Now his features were set in grim horizontal lines.†   (source)
  • The rat could go from running horizontally on the ground, to running vertically up a wall, then upside-down across a rope, all within a matter of seconds.†   (source)
  • Thunder rumbled above the roof of the Beater, and the rain turned horizontal.†   (source)
  • A cornice was merely a horizontal decorative projection.†   (source)
  • We drew as many important details as we could, and drew in perspective: Nearby objects are larger than distant objects; horizontal parallel lines converge and vanish in the distance.†   (source)
  • After a brief interlude the family was picked up again by a second camera, traversing a hallway and pushing the horizontal bars that secured a heavy set of double fire-resistant doors, and as these doors opened the brightness of Dubai's desert sunlight overwhelmed the sensitivity of the image sensor and the four figures seemed to become thinner, insubstantial, lost in an aura of whiteness, but they were at that moment simultaneously captured on three exterio†   (source)
  • The young man was clearly engrossed in explaining something to his companion: "Contrapuntal form operates on two dimensions, horizontally, or melodically, and vertically, or harmonically.†   (source)
  • He spread the field horizontally; that is, from sideline to sideline.†   (source)
  • It ate at the remainder of the weld, rapidly expanding the failure until reactor coolant was erupting as though from a horizontal fountain.†   (source)
  • It's impossible to tell exactly what he's looking at because of his goggles, a smooth convex shell over the eyes, interrupted by a narrow horizontal slit.†   (source)
  • Shadows from the legs of the kitchen table lay across the linoleum in horizontal stripes like the shadows of prison bars.†   (source)
  • The first stage along the ridges of the Sierra Nevada, riding muleback in a caravan of Andean mule drivers, lasted eleven days, during which time they were stupefied by the naked sun or drenched by the horizontal October rains and almost always petrified by the numbing vapors rising from the precipices.†   (source)
  • She had on a black skirt that was frayed at the hem, a worn-out black, mid-length leather jacket, rivet belt, heavy Doc Marten boots, and horizontally striped, green-and-red knee socks.†   (source)
  • A keen wind that had been hiding itself struck me full in the mouth and raked the hair back horizontal on my head.†   (source)
  • The aircraft became a long, horizontal whisper of darkness lighted only by the green luminosity of the instrument panel.†   (source)
  • What I'd like to do is make Brittain horizontal, but that would only put me another rung lower on Jacob's ladder in Jody's eyes.†   (source)
  • LuLing started to write a simple horizontal line.†   (source)
  • He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed—" I nailed her with a look that said, Does it look like I want a replay?†   (source)
  • Jupiter was a shimmering yellow circle with brown horizontal streaks.†   (source)
  • Situated in what had formerly been the righthand lane, we didn't have any choice but to watch these cars pass us at a slightly higher elevation and with a rakish thrust, deviated from the horizontal.†   (source)
  • And the lovely hollows, the horizontal flow of emptiness within the ice.†   (source)
  • In the other plane, the one on the horizontal, the hunter is in the background, holding his gun and advancing.†   (source)
  • I see a vertical line connecting Kristin Johnson to Evelyn Johnson, and a horizontal one connecting Evelyn Johnson to Marcus Eaton.†   (source)
  • Los Angeles soon became unlike any other city the world had ever seen, sprawling and horizontal, a thoroughly suburban metropolis of detached homes — a glimpse of the future, molded by the automobile.†   (source)
  • Sometimes that was sliding the litter down an opportune slope adjacent to the terrace; sometimes that was lying prone, then lowering Adam horizontally or vertically to the waiting hands reaching up from ten feet below.†   (source)
  • Answering more to gravity than to the roll of the ship, the hammock found the true horizontal.†   (source)
  • When that failed, she unsuccessfully tried to poke her chubby finger into the thin horizontal slit.†   (source)
  • He hated it, as he hated the Texas plains, the Nevada desert; spaces horizontal and sparsely inhabited had always induced in him a depression accompanied by agoraphobic sensations.†   (source)
  • It was a great cell, as far as cells at Ashland Federal Prison went—eight feet by ten feet with a solid iron door fitted with a twelve-inch-square safety glass peep window, and a horizontal slot on the bottom for passing food trays in and out.†   (source)
  • She looks to her left and right in the pew and turns the postcard from upright to horizontal, flattening it against the open book so no one can see.†   (source)
  • Her gray eyes and gray mouth were drawn into tight horizontal lines.†   (source)
  • She walks to the window and adjusts the horizontal blinds to let in sunlight.†   (source)
  • It was a horizontal shot of my mom and the three of us girls, standing on the jetty near my uncle's summer house.†   (source)
  • Each horizontal row represents one student's answers.†   (source)
  • Milo lifted his arm suddenly and pointed toward the open-air theater, where the milky, dust-filled beam bursting horizontally from the projector slashed a conelike swath in the blackness and draped in a fluorescent membrane of light the audience tilted on the seats there in hypnotic sags, their faces focused upward toward the aluminized movie screen.†   (source)
  • The promise of heaven, the assurance of it, was balm, even if you had to turn the antenna to fix the prophet's horizontal roll.†   (source)
  • They called out their own names, women's pretty names, haphazard names, horizontal names of one generation.†   (source)
  • She drew two horizontal lines at the bottom.†   (source)
  • His forelegs support his horizontal body and the great back legs do the work.†   (source)
  • The ceiling was at least thirty feet high, and the only windows were narrow horizontal slits maybe a foot or two below the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Horizontal cuts, the blood clots.†   (source)
  • Directly ahead of them, the road leading to the lake curved upward to meet it, only now the lake was slanted upward and the waterfall thundered horizontally.†   (source)
  • The original Rosenthal photo, shot in a horizontal format, February 23, 1945.†   (source)
  • Flashy bloodred with black pinstriping running horizontally— Aires typically lost me at this point, but he would still continue talking even though my eyes glazed over—three functional, vertical front, slanting louvers on the sides of the front fenders; a blacked-out, horizontal-bars grille and different rocker panel moldings.†   (source)
  • The elevator smoothly shifted to horizontal, gliding east.†   (source)
  • All the walls in Granny's house were horizontal pine boards, painted to look like plaster.†   (source)
  • We can measure our progress by sighting against it at what seems like a horizontal angle.†   (source)
  • Soon, we could see the little matchbox houses of the Cape Flats, the gleaming towers of downtown, and the horizontal top of Table Mountain.†   (source)
  • As she scrambled to her feet, I launched myself into a full-on, horizontal, flying tackle.†   (source)
  • The Lunar catapult is straight so far as the eye can see and so nearly horizontal that the barges just miss some peaks beyond it.†   (source)
  • They got their water from a waterfall that was ejected horizontally from the mountain wall before it fell fifty meters into a rock cauldron perpetually filled with spray.†   (source)
  • His cold, blue eyes made two horizontal cuts across the gaunt planes of his face; they remained horizontal, impassively half-closed; he said evenly, without emphasis: 'I'll do it.†   (source)
  • None of them made up words, whether you read the letters horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.†   (source)
  • He would ignite the rocket, watch it zip horizontally along the string, and measure how far it flew.†   (source)
  • His face was striped horizontally with bands of blue and yellow.†   (source)
  • "On the horizontal," Barbara said, moving close to him, putting a hand on his shoulder.†   (source)
  • When I look out the sliding glass door at the back of the house, it seems like it might be raining horizontally, and even I'm not desperate enough to go out in this kind of lightning.†   (source)
  • He is chasing breathing figures performing horizontal sprints across the street.†   (source)
  • The curtained whitewashed room of the warehouse, lined with locked, horizontal display cases, was not unlike a museum displaying such artifacts from past civilizations as primitive tools, fossilized insects, mystic carvings of religions past.†   (source)
  • His earlocks lifted off the sides of his head and followed him around in an almost horizontal circle.†   (source)
  • On the cry of "Aim?" a line of horizontal musket barrels points directly at the blue wall.†   (source)
  • Grigg's section was darker to the eye, with more obvious features; long horizontal ledges where a block had been imperfectly positioned atop the block below, cracks and crevices, even chimneys along the vertical joins, where wind and water had eaten holes large enough for a man to hide in.†   (source)
  • I'd draw six vertical lines and intersect them with six horizontal lines, and then I'd fill in every other little square with my pen.†   (source)
  • The painting was perfect except for a thin horizontal line near the top of the image that Gabriel had made no attempt to repair.†   (source)
  • On most of them the horizontal piece was tiltedto the right or left or had fallen off.†   (source)
  • He sat down on the edge of the bed in a horizontal beam of sunlight, and made the tea.†   (source)
  • Keep your head horizontal for a minute so it will get the flow of blood.†   (source)
  • They were everywhere, flashing on the slow, horizontal move, on the upswings, rising and subsiding in the soundless dark.†   (source)
  • With his forearms held out at the horizontal—like the fork of a fork-lift truck—he was supporting a shallow but very wide cardboard box, open at the top, on which he could visibly get no grip.†   (source)
  • It was a huge ring, perfectly horizontal and perfectly circular-and it was the colour of all that Jan had left so far behind, for the skies of Earth had held no lovelier blue.†   (source)
  • It was striped horizontally with dark green potato beds; beyond them, at the top of the mound, were cold frames.†   (source)
  • My curiosity finally bested whatever impulses I had to remain horizontal, and very slowly, snaking my way across the bottom of the boat, I lifted my head just over the side of the boat.†   (source)
  • Tim leaned against the horizontal door handle, holding it shut.†   (source)
    horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
  • With some fumbling due to his bandaged hand, he held the sheath horizontally like a serving tray.†   (source)
  • He was wearing long Quidditch robes in thick horizontal stripes of bright yellow and black.†   (source)
  • He matched the shirt with a blue tie decorated with horizontal lines of little pink flamingos.†   (source)
  • The man who is the object of our inquiry is horizontally diversified.†   (source)
  • I adjusted the horizontal reticle in my scope one click to the left.†   (source)
  • I would soar clear over the horizontal fin on the starboard side.†   (source)
  • A long row of robot icons appeared below the wise man, stretching across the screen horizontally.†   (source)
  • It flowed bitterly endless before them, beckoning beneath its horizontal collapse of skyline.†   (source)
  • In the winters they wore knitted vests, with horizontal stripes.†   (source)
  • Reaching in with both hands and keeping the pouch horizontal, Langdon lifted it out of the bin.†   (source)
  • Perenelle noticed that her pupils were flat and horizontal.†   (source)
  • She made a horizontal stroke and asked Ruth if she could see what the picture was.†   (source)
  • Rain pummeled them, flying horizontally, captured by a ferocious wind.†   (source)
  • The current clutched at him, rotating his body horizontally and dragging him away.†   (source)
  • "Horizontal," she said in that strange wet voice of hers.†   (source)
  • The wind blew so hard the rain drops appeared to be flowing almost horizontal instead of vertical.†   (source)
  • She felt the slight shift as the car veered to horizontal mode.†   (source)
  • If my bodily processes slow any further, I'll be permanently horizontal.†   (source)
  • Every third ledge had a tunnel that led horizontally away from the pit.†   (source)
  • Even as Saphira advanced horizontally, the current continued to sweep her upward at a dizzying rate.†   (source)
  • "Let me try," Cristian said, taking the horizontal controls from Oscar.†   (source)
  • I added, "Could they be driving a new horizontal tunnel just under the surface?"†   (source)
  • Gradually, we melted in place until we were horizontal.†   (source)
  • Two horizontal to drive and one vertical to go up and down.†   (source)
  • The horizontal limbs of cypresses grew a short, pale green scruff like bird feathers.†   (source)
  • Parwana stands near the fire now, looking at Masooma, who is a horizontal blanketed mound on the other side of the flames.†   (source)
  • It was perfectly straight, about three feet in diameter, and extended horizontally the visible length of the tunnel before disappearing into the darkness.†   (source)
  • But instead of splatting on the steps at their feet, the sphere of silver defied gravity and flew horizontally, directly into Winston's face.†   (source)
  • She had a fierce expression, a mottled complexion, thinning hair, tobacco-stained teeth, and an unsettling white scar that sliced horizontally across her neck.†   (source)
  • He was bent over now, holding the gravy boat out, the drawstring of his pajama trousers making a right-angled white line to the horizontal plane of the red and black linoleum floor.†   (source)
  • It's a view he does not admire — it is so relentlessly horizontal — but visual monotony can sometimes be conducive to thought.†   (source)
  • A sheet of horizontal lightning flickered between two bulbous thunderheads, and the world became a tableau of pale marble before darkness reigned once more.†   (source)
  • I start kicking at it, and the crack spreads horizontally, and then Radar and I get our fingers inside the crack and start tugging.†   (source)
  • Fighting through an angry horizontal rain, they paddled by the post office near Jefferson Parkway and Lafitte.†   (source)
  • The air above them was pale white, bleached of its usual hue-all color seemed to have been leached out of a horizontal band of sky that lay on top of the hills and extended to the horizon's edges.†   (source)
  • The slender tops fairly flapped and swished in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backward and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobolink on a reed.†   (source)
  • And when you move a colored tile in this way you have to remove the colored tile that it jumped over, like this.... And you have to see how far you get the colored tiles above the starting horizontal line, and you start by doing something like this.... .... And I know what the answer is because however you move the colored tiles you will never get a colored tile more than 4 squares above the starting horizontal line, but it is a good mathproblem to do in your head when you don't want to think about something else because you can make it as complicated as you need to fill your brain by making the board as big as you want and the moves as complicated as you want.†   (source)
  • It was an action shot-women's volleyball-and Martha was bent horizontal to the floor, reaching, the palms of her hands in sharp focus, the tongue taut, the expression frank and competitive.†   (source)
  • Colton lay quietly as the surgeon pulled back the sheet to show us the incision site, a horizontal line across the right side of his tiny belly.†   (source)
  • Next, to ensure that the mast would stand straight, and to give myself lines from which to hang a canopy and supplies, I threaded ropes through the holes I had drilled in the masthead and tied them to the tips of the horizontal oars.†   (source)
  • At eye level the trunk split into three thick and nearly horizontal limbs, the longest of which arced toward the house and ended suddenly in a mass of waxy leaves.†   (source)
  • By the faint torchlight within, Wang saw a few slavelike figures pushing a spoked, horizontal wheel, which provided the power to the machine above.†   (source)
  • The writing is indecipherable, not because Margo's handwriting is bad, but because on top of the horizontal lines of text, writing also goes vertically down the page.†   (source)
  • It was a rustic structure made of horizontal dark-stained timber with a tile roof and green frames, and with a small porch at the front door.†   (source)
  • The rich, horizontal light bathed her skin and threw her shadow four meters across the boards of the platform.†   (source)
  • The horizontal apparition hovered in the sky without growing larger, and though he was beginning to understand its meaning, it was, as in a dream, impossible to begin to respond or move his limbs.†   (source)
  • Unlike the older boats, these did not have paddle wheels at the sides; instead, there was an enormous wheel with horizontal paddles at the stern, just underneath the suffocating toilets on the passenger deck.†   (source)
  • We formed a horizontal line and waited.†   (source)
  • "Horizontal!" and "Gassy!"†   (source)
  • Yet somehow Roethke, the greatest poet ever to come from Saginaw, Michigan, finds beauty in that perfectly horizontal surface, where horizons run away from the eye and a drainage ditch is a chasm.†   (source)
  • THESTORMBREAKS The first horizontal rays of dawn already streaked across the land when Trianna said to Eragon,It is time.†   (source)
  • Cursing, he clambered back to his feet, pulling himself up by the waist-high, horizontal strut on which Katherine Solomon had cleverly placed her open cell phone.†   (source)
  • She could see horizontal lines, as fine as thread, delineating where one drawer ended and the next began, but there were no knobs or handles.†   (source)
  • Directly in front of them, a row of twenty or so darkly tinged windows stretched across the compound horizontally, one after the other.†   (source)
  • Stretching his legs out behind him, he walked his feet up the glass wall until he was almost horizontal.†   (source)
  • The door of the ninth gate was a horizontal slab of marble on top of a hill in the centre of the city; it opened without moving, and swung between life and death, between the flesh and the spirit.†   (source)
  • Then my sister and Walt shot straight up out of the portal, suspended horizontally, as if they were running toward the sky.†   (source)
  • s feet slip on a patch of ice, the long legs flying out horizontal, the man failing silently to the snowy boulders below.†   (source)
  • The Hayes Code said a lot of different things, but the one we're interested in was that you could stack bodies like cordwood if they were dead (although usually without blood), but living bodies couldn't get horizontal together.†   (source)
  • Hanging there, a long way off, about thirty feet above the road, warped by the rising heat, was what looked like a plank of wood, suspended horizontally, with a bulge in its center.†   (source)
  • I lashed the rods together to form a cross, then strapped the rig to the hip belt of my backpack so the poles extended horizontally over the snow.†   (source)
  • She had asked her mother a few years earlier why she didn't bear the customary horizontal mark and Maman explained that the doctors had given her some sort of technical reason at the time that she no longer remembered.†   (source)
  • Senuhet stepped into a puddle of light and Dee noted now that his eyes were painted with black kohl, the top lid completely blackened, two horizontal lines running from the corners of his eyes to his ears.†   (source)
  • Again he was wearing a snug longsleeve shirt, this one with narrow horizontal stripes in greens and reds and browns, and again he had maneuvered his way into very narrow black pants that gave his legs the look of an inverted V. "You do work here, right?" she asked.†   (source)
  • And in Conway's Soldiers you have a chessboard that continues infinitely in all directions and every square below a horizontal line has a colored tile on it like this.... And you can move a colored tile only if it can jump over a colored tile horizontally or vertically (but not diagonally) into an empty square 2 squares away.†   (source)
  • Before this sound even reaches her ears, the rocket darts horizontally like a minnow, makes one or two minor cuts to correct its course, zeroes in on that sniper's perch, up in the water tower's access ladder.†   (source)
  • I was staring and I knew it and I couldn't stop, couldn't peel my gaze away from the sky blue cloth of the mask, the two sets of bands tying it to the back of her head, the narrow horizontal slit over the mouth.†   (source)
  • And all the while the streaming, horizontal rays of sunlight f'dled the hall with deepening hues of amber, gold, lapis, and then amber again-colors so deep that they made the air thick with light and lay like paint against the skin.†   (source)
  • And in Conway's Soldiers you have a chessboard that continues infinitely in all directions and every square below a horizontal line has a colored tile on it like this.... And you can move a colored tile only if it can jump over a colored tile horizontally or vertically (but not diagonally) into an empty square 2 squares away.†   (source)
  • "You and yours at the Circle"—and here he drew a circle in the air, horizontally, and Mae thought of a halo—"you're gonna save all the souls.†   (source)
  • The glass at the far end was thick ....Langdon's stack had fallen almost to the horizontal when he heard what he was waiting for-a different kind of collision.†   (source)
  • Growing horizontally from the tree trunk, the branch was at least ten feet across, and sloped down to plunge into the earth close to a crescent-shaped pool.†   (source)
  • I pushed Walt against the stone and flattened myself next to him, our faces pressed against the wall, as a wave of claws and fur slammed into us and rolled over our backs: an army of rodents scuttling five-deep along the floor and racing horizontally across the walls, defying gravity.†   (source)
  • Equatorial or horizontal?†   (source)
  • When he saw the horizontal shaft of light before him, he realized he was standing a few steps beneath a landing, where the glow of torchlight spilled out beneath the threshold of a door in front of him.†   (source)
  • Pari wonders, thinking of the vertical pelvic scar—Pari had asked, and Zahia had told her that cesarian incisions were made horizontally.†   (source)
  • In a picture of the family Lisa drew at school, Travis saw only three images; he had to catch his breath before he realized there was another horizontal image in the corner, one that seemed added almost as an afterthought.†   (source)
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