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  • Laid out in a dazzling geometric design of diagonal oak slats, the floor produced an ephemeral optical illusion—a multidimensional network that gave visitors the sense they were floating through the gallery on a surface that changed with every step.†   (source)
  • The bombs fall diagonally; the bombers rise and scramble.†   (source)
  • A perfect square—maybe fifteen feet wide—pivoted on a diagonal axis as the dirt-packed side slowly spun away from them and what had lain underneath rose up to replace it.†   (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)
  • He demonstrated it moving up, down, diagonally, all with remarkable fluidity.†   (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)
  • As you feel your board drop down the face of the wave, you suddenly realize that you are moving diagonally across a wave that is both going forward toward the beach and at the same time moving up and down.†   (source)
  • I am diagonal from Stuart, placed as far as possible from him.†   (source)
  • His face contorted with confusion, and she picked up her pawn, moving it diagonally, and easily knocked over the piece.†   (source)
  • I work my way down at a diagonal, but I find nothing except more lush, green plant life.†   (source)
  • Falling...Falling with the wind...Falling hard and thick ....Noah rowing ....racing the sky..., still getting wet..., cursing to himself..., losing to Mother Nature...The downpour was steady now, and Allie watched the rain fall diagonally from the sky, trying to defy gravity as it rode on westerly winds that whistled over the trees.†   (source)
  • The soldier reaches up and sprays one long, red, diagonal line on our door.†   (source)
  • Up and down, across and diagonal, I pedal my sore legs through the streets of a suburb mostly sleeping.†   (source)
  • She paused before it, and then, with one violent, diagonal stroke, ripped away more than half of it and let it fall to the floor.†   (source)
  • She wore a thin white towel arranged diagonally over her chest and slung over one shoulder.†   (source)
  • We'll be crossing over at the tip of Tukey's Bridge, on the northeast point of the cove: if we were swimming, a direct diagonal from our meet-up point.†   (source)
  • The riders were thrown free, but their panicked horses dragged the golden chariot diagonally across the track.†   (source)
  • Six is now wearing only the rubber suit, which is entirely black aside from a gray band slicing diagonally down the front of it.†   (source)
  • The colonist let out a cry and leaped back; a smoking line of black was slashed diagonally across his silk shirtfront.†   (source)
  • Inside, the price has been snipped away on the diagonal.†   (source)
  • Struts and diagonal rods ran between the two wheels to stiffen the assembly and give it the strength of a railroad bridge.†   (source)
  • There were so many now for every meal that we had to set the chairs diagonally around the dining room table.†   (source)
  • Leah I KILLED MY FIRST GAME, a beautiful tawny beast with curved horns and a black diagonal stripe across his flank: a young male impala.†   (source)
  • Luke set the phone book down on the table, picked up the roll of bandaging, and began winding it around the diagonal cut across his ribs.†   (source)
  • I found another corner piece, this one the opposite diagonal, fastening it the same way.†   (source)
  • And, like Hiro, he's wearing two swords-the long katana on his left hip and the one-handed wakizashi stuck diagonally in his waistband.†   (source)
  • Every time the clock chimed he made a mark on his arm , four vertical marks and then a diagonal slash to seal the quintet.†   (source)
  • The ball ripped through his chestnut-colored hair, cut the skin, penetrated the skull, and because of the angle of Lincoln's head at the moment of impact, made a diagonal tunnel through Lincoln's brain.†   (source)
  • His paddle fluttered in his hands as it cut diagonally across the current.†   (source)
  • I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks.†   (source)
  • She wore a diagonally striped dress that had been dyed black, worn by use, and a pair of scaly patent leather boots.†   (source)
  • Presently, Leto took a leisurely diagonal course across to the lift, acknowledging salutes with a casual hand wave.†   (source)
  • The driver hesitated at a four-way stop; diagonally to the right stood a pretty, down-home church with a tall white steeple, then a row of houses stretching beyond.†   (source)
  • Liam parked diagonally across three different spaces, throwing the brake on with a fast, "Be right back."†   (source)
  • Looking rather bulky, for they had wrapped themselves up in every garment they possessed, the men shuffled diagonally toward the parade ground in single file, making no attempt to overtake one another.†   (source)
  • When she reached the top of the stadium she stopped and paused, putting her hands to the high parapet and leaning into it to rest diagonally.†   (source)
  • But look at the second diagonal.†   (source)
  • Tris crouches on the ground inside, shoulder to shoulder with Christina and diagonal from Cara.†   (source)
  • Their tracks cut a perfect diagonal across the unblemished square of the field.†   (source)
  • Soon, however, it becomes diagonally deformed, like italics, and disappears like a flame blown out.†   (source)
  • The granddaughter and her aunts had counted them and planted them diagonally across the heart, joke candles that wouldn't blow out.†   (source)
  • When he jumps off, his wobbly glasses bounce diagonally so that one eye is suddenly naked and surprisingly small.†   (source)
  • An edge of the mountain razored diagonally upward into the cloud.†   (source)
  • There were veins of it that sloped diagonally past me, three inches wide and twelve feet long.†   (source)
  • Jacob—still wearing just the same black cut-off sweats he'd worn last night—was stretched diagonally across the double bed that took up all of his room but a few inches around the edges.†   (source)
  • Billy stood by one of these, and, as the crowd pressed against him, he climbed part way up a diagonal comer brace to make more room.†   (source)
  • He glanced down at the thin scar that ran diagonally across his wrist.†   (source)
  • Cutting a diagonal across the waves, the ship rose and fell, sliding ever closer to the dark sand until its shallow hull at last ground to a halt.†   (source)
  • I saw Chris's blue Taurus pulled up diagonally across from the tip of the park and jackknifed the patrol car to a halt next to it.†   (source)
  • The diagonal incision begins on the right side, barely missing the cockpit.†   (source)
  • Running diagonally across the pool, from the brickwork of the bridge near the opposite bank to a point a little below them on their own side, was a grating of thin, vertical iron rods.†   (source)
  • I wondered what it said about me, and pictured the word RAPE, in bold red letters, written diagonally across the page.†   (source)
  • A pink scar started under his right eye, hit the corner of his nose, and ran diagonally across his upper lip.†   (source)
  • It was free of knots, and trimmed on a diagonal with a neat rip cut.†   (source)
  • The black strap of a pack cuts diagonally across his chest.†   (source)
  • Not only that, but the endless diagonal rocking of the boat was having an undeniable effect on my stomach—and judging from the greenish color of the faces around me, I wasn't alone.†   (source)
  • The two men started diagonally across the lobby together, the woman toward the front desk.†   (source)
  • To add to the terrors, the animals, burnt and infuriated by the cinders, darted through the streets regardless of all human obstacles....The flames from the houses on the west side reached in a diagonal arch quite across the street, and occasionally the wind would lift the great body of flame, detach it entirely from the burning buildings, and hurl it with terrific force far ahead.†   (source)
  • The west fork cuts across our country on a diagonal.†   (source)
  • An old, yellowing photograph with a crease running diagonally across the upper left corner.†   (source)
  • All eyes were directed to the platform where Renault and Janza stood at diagonal corners.†   (source)
  • He saw that she was firing the nails diagonally through his heel and into the floor.†   (source)
  • "My brother," she answered, glancing diagonally across the table at a young man in the military uniform of Italy.†   (source)
  • She had thrown her coat off, and she sat outlined against it, a slim, tense body in a gray suit, leaning diagonally across the wide armchair.†   (source)
  • The file he plopped onto the table had a brown cardboard cover with a thick red band running diagonally across it.†   (source)
  • Then they were falling ...falling diagonally out of the sky.†   (source)
  • Strike off diagonal-like, take the shortest distance between two points.†   (source)
  • The monsters walked right to the base of the city's sloping hill and stood facing each other, aiming their mirrors diagonally toward each other, but still catching the reflection of Cryshal-Tirith.†   (source)
  • The river that cut diagonally through the city was almost below me and coming up fast, shining out clearly with a higher temperature than the land.†   (source)
  • The gash runs from the base of my thumb diagonally across my palm towards my wrist.†   (source)
  • The red diagonal strips are thick as a barbershop's pole.†   (source)
  • It covered the eye as well as the upper part of his cheekbone, and it was held in place by a black band that went diagonally under his right ear, around his head and across his forehead.†   (source)
  • Across the dark grey wool of his doublet, a burning chain was embroidered diagonally in bright green thread.†   (source)
  • Stem and Nora would occupy Stem's old room, diagonally across the hall.†   (source)
  • Arnie's wasn't all that different overall—the carpet was still a deep, dark red, dim track lights still hung in diagonals across the ceiling, and the prize counter was still full of cheap plastic toys and erasers and Chinese finger traps.†   (source)
  • A few cars stood abandoned parked diagonally by the curb; they had been there for over a year.†   (source)
  • Making good time despite her burden — the pup must have weighed ten or fifteen pounds — she trotted diagonally up the esker slope and disappeared into a small stand of spruce.†   (source)
  • Two blocks down, the Southern Pacific tracks cut diagonally across the street on their way south, and a street crossed Castroville Street from east to west.†   (source)
  • Standing diagonally across the street from the Presbyterian church—equally homely in the ghastly mud-colored sandstone-and-slate motif dominating American church architecture of the thirties—where as a child and growing boy I observed my Sunday devotionals, the silent and shuttered synagogue with its frowning cast-iron portals and intaglio Star —of David seemed in its intimidating quietude to represent for me all that was isolate, mysterious and even supernatural about Jews and Jewry and their smoky, cabalistic religion.†   (source)
  • He could just make out the darker places on the wallpaper, the crooked trail of vines and the large gray smudges, diagonally receding, a foot apart.†   (source)
  • Then they look at each other diagonally across the square, in which the light is gently increasing.†   (source)
  • He saw that his shots had all been good, the three in the belly making a neat pattern, diagonal ticktacktoe.†   (source)
  • He saw a streak of gray disappearing diagonally a block ahead.†   (source)
  • So Old Man Moody stumped over and picked it up and held it up on the diagonal, posing, like a fisherman holding a funny-looking fish to have come out of Moon Lake.†   (source)
  • —and yet be so strict about other things—like, God forbid you do a diagonal chasse instead of a sideways chasse!†   (source)
  • As a result, I end up moving at a slight diagonal.†   (source)
  • As we watched, the rain intensified into a steady downpour, falling diagonally from the sky.†   (source)
  • Langdon hastened diagonally across the Courtyard of the Sentinel.†   (source)
  • The mouth looked like a diagonal gash, and a large chunk of the nose was missing.†   (source)
  • The square piece of foil bent itself in half diagonally, creating a silver triangle.†   (source)
  • Diagonally across, Adolf Hitler stood in the corner with his entourage.†   (source)
  • Knotted around his neck is his only tie, maroon with yellow stripes on the diagonal.†   (source)
  • Instead, a white stripe runs diagonally across their chests and their armbands are gray.†   (source)
  • It stood on the banks of the Tiber River diagonally adjacent to the Vatican.†   (source)
  • And turning with his smirk, the Bishop slipped diagonally down the hall.†   (source)
  • wide blood slick runs from his body, diagonally down the Street to a storm drain.†   (source)
  • One end of wire Werner crimps around a shorn pipe standing diagonally up from the floor.†   (source)
  • He looked diagonally into the one eye he could see of his captor.†   (source)
  • And began running on the diagonal, toward where the handcar would emerge toward the darkness ahead.†   (source)
  • In the boat, she felt everyone's eyes on them as they rose diagonally toward the sky.†   (source)
  • Cotter is watching the college boy speak, looking back diagonally.†   (source)
  • Rolling onto her back, she stretched across the spread diagonally.†   (source)
  • He pointed to a tiny fissure running diagonally from the edge to the bottom.†   (source)
  • One of Yousef's two front teeth was at a diagonal, crossing its twin.†   (source)
  • He walked diagonally across the street from the other side.†   (source)
  • Go from the tip of the heron's feet to the tip of his beak, and you have the first diagonal.†   (source)
  • Instead, the president is laid down diagonally on the red, white, and blue bedspread.†   (source)
  • The line of her course went northwest, to cut a diagonal across the state of Colorado.†   (source)
  • Buffalo trails crossed the human trail on diagonals.†   (source)
  • I follow a girder diagonally across the screen so I don't have to look at him.†   (source)
  • So your only way out is through the gate; it'll be somewhere diagonally to the right.†   (source)
  • In town one day he went into small embarrassed raptures over diagonal parking.†   (source)
  • Jordan ran up the path, a sleek-looking leather satchel slung diagonally across his chest.†   (source)
  • I've made arrangements for you to be in an unmarked government car diagonally across from the house.†   (source)
  • The voices are close now, and diagonal beams of light zigzag through the woods.†   (source)
  • Liam exhaled as he cut a diagonal path through the parking lot.†   (source)
  • He tapped the fender of a diagonally parked car, half smiling.†   (source)
  • If we take diagonal bracing and ....What?†   (source)
  • Diagonally across the street from the entrance.†   (source)
  • "Look at the diagonals that Audubon sets up first," Mr. Powell said.†   (source)
  • We will not lose it" The driver plunged diagonally forward into the combat of traffic.†   (source)
  • "So," Mr. Powell said, "you have one plane of action in the forefront, marked by the diagonals.†   (source)
  • Instead, he crouched, then sprang like a white panther diagonally forward, his hands outstretched.†   (source)
  • He glanced back, saw Jimmy moving diagonally over to cover the pathway.†   (source)
  • [NUGGET comes to a halt staring diagonally down what is now the field†   (source)
  • He turned back, moved diagonally toward where Mick had disappeared.†   (source)
  • He could glide directly from the street, diagonally across the lawn, and appear just a few feet below a second-story window.†   (source)
  • When the winds shifted and picked up-signaling the front of the storm-he began to tack, moving diagonally across the swells despite the hazards.†   (source)
  • It consisted of digging the trucks and the 'men' out of his two playchests and lining the trucks up one by one in diagonal parallels, the men inside, as if they were all slant-parked on a street that only Tad could see.†   (source)
  • He's six feet tall, about forty, a diagonal scar across his cheek; he sits typing, his hands too big for the keyboard, still wearing his pistol in the shoulder holster.†   (source)
  • After diagonally crossing the crypt, the group entered a dimly lit foyer and began winding through a convoluted series of hallways and dead ends.†   (source)
  • He checks his watch and then the window again, and here she comes, loping diagonally across the park, in a wide-brimmed hat today and a tightly belted houndstooth suit, handbag clutched under her arm, pleated skirt swinging, in her curious undulating stride, as if she's never got used to walking on her hind legs.†   (source)
  • He was positioned diagonally against a rounded chair, his thin frame resting stiffly, like a two-by-four.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh studied Franklin's famous creation—a unique arrangement of the numbers 1 through 64—in which every row, column, and diagonal added up to the same magical constant.†   (source)
  • Crossing the massive nave on a diagonal, Langdon and Sophie remained silent as the elaborate sepulchre revealed itself in tantalizing increments...a black-marble sarcophagus...a reclining statue of Newton...two winged boys...a huge pyramid...and...an enormous orb.†   (source)
  • The wheel was steady, but the swells were beginning to come diagonally now, rocking the boat like an unsteady cradle.†   (source)
  • There was a diagonal slash across the mottled bark of each tree through which milky rubber seeped like white blood from a wound, and dripped into the waiting half of a coconut shell that had been tied to the tree.†   (source)
  • I sat in the middle of the back seat of the Cadillac, my mother on one side of me, and my brother on the other, both leaning slightly forward, like diagonal bars, one across each car door.†   (source)
  • The old Street of the Turks was at that time an abandoned corner where the last Arabs were letting themselves be dragged off to death with the age-old custom of sitting in their doorways, although it had been many years since they had sold the last yard of diagonal cloth, and in the shadowy showcases only the decapitated manikins remained.†   (source)
  • "All right, Buckley, I need you over here," he shouted, and one of the brothers nodded and crossed in front of us diagonally, dragging the tent behind him.†   (source)
  • Opposite, set in a diagonal across a street corner, the wide-open double doors of a pub suggested a theater stage.†   (source)
  • Although my instinct is to run directly away from it, I realize Finnick is moving at a diagonal down the hill.†   (source)
  • Alex yanks the bike off the road and onto the grass, and we go, half gunning, half sliding, down into the marshes, cutting a diagonal toward the border.†   (source)
  • But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right almost diagonally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to mark the ones where we know the Gamemakers' weapon follows us out past the jungle, so we'll stay clear of those," says Peeta, drawing diagonal lines on the fog and wave beaches.†   (source)
  • THE ORDER EIGHT FRANKLIN SQUARE One of history's best-known magic squares is the order-eight square published in 1769 by American scientist Benjamin Franklin, and which became famous for its inclusion of never-before-seen "bent diagonal summations."†   (source)
  • The tuna were shooting across the tank in diagonals, and their sudden presence chased the octopus and seahorse into the coral and fronds at the bottom of the aquarium.†   (source)
  • For Gogol Ganguli," it says on the front endpaper in his father's tranquil hand, in red ballpoint ink, the letters rising gradually, optimistically, on the diagonal toward the upper right-hand corner of the page.†   (source)
  • It was enough that he could pretend to ignore Cecilia's bare arm at his side—he could feel its heat—and the hostile gaze of Briony who sat diagonally across from him.†   (source)
  • Finally, the leader comes out, Bruce Lee himself, a fortyish guy in a Kevlar vest, an ammo vest stretched over that, a diagonal bandolier, samurai sword-Hiro would love to take him on— nunchuks, and his colors, the patchwork of human scalps.†   (source)
  • And as she began to relate the professional obligations that had commandeered her afternoon, she scored the fish's spine with the tip of the knife and made diagonal cuts at its head and tail.†   (source)
  • As they lurched into the deeper water they began to row diagonally upstream, against the current, the way Velutha had taught them to.†   (source)
  • Leaning away from the field of Cecilia's body warmth, and averting his eyes from Briony's, he found himself pitching the end of his question into the frightened gaze of Pierrot diagonally to his left.†   (source)
  • While the thought was terrifying, the location of his banging—diagonally to her right—instantly oriented Katherine.†   (source)
  • A pelican landed downshore, on the trunk of a dead tree, which had been bleached white and leaned diagonally, rising from the steel-grey water, pointing lazily to the sky.†   (source)
  • He quickly showed Katherine that in addition to making the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to thirty-four, Dürer had also found a way to make the four quadrants, the four center squares, and even the four corner squares add up to that number.†   (source)
  • That afternoon, without stirring from her daybed, Emily had guessed that Lola was undermining Briony's play, a suspicion confirmed by the diagonally ripped poster on the easel.†   (source)
  • The term magic square referred not to something mystical but to something mathematical—it was the name given to a grid of consecutive numbers arranged in such a way that all the rows, columns, and diagonals added up to the same thing.†   (source)
  • He crossed to the wall, rushing past the crowds until he was diagonally in front of Conklin and Panov near the taxi platform.†   (source)
  • A thick rug was underfoot, the stone walls spread with tapestries, a massive desk standing diagonally across the room.†   (source)
  • He knew that Arya would be expecting him to try something different, so he opened their duel as he had twice before: shuffling in a diagonal toward her right shoulder, as if to circumvent her shield and attack her flank where it was unguarded.†   (source)
  • His right arm was stiff beneath the folds of his white caftan, his left diagonally across his waist, also under the sheer white fabric.†   (source)
  • As so often happens when he stretches out his frame in a normal-sized bed, his feet hang over the end, so he sleeps diagonally.†   (source)
  • At a certain point the voice upstairs stops, and the footsteps move diagonally across the floor, in the direction of the stairs.†   (source)
  • As Obasan returns toward us, the old woman in the seat diagonal to ours beckons to me, nodding her head, urging me to come to her, her hand gesturing downward in a digging waving motion.†   (source)
  • And Billy let himself down oh so gradually now, hanging onto the diagonal cross-brace in the comer in order to make himself seem nearly weightless to those he was joining on the floor.†   (source)
  • At the highest point of a ridge that seemed to run diagonally across all of Tuscany, he dismounted, quieted Enrico, and looped the reins around a pine bough sticky with resin.†   (source)
  • Today she left an egg sandwich cut on the diagonal, and he ate one half but he wrapped the other half in his handkerchief to take back to Linnie.†   (source)
  • Each consists of three diagonal lines like a bird's footprint and appears to have been made there by a branding iron.†   (source)
  • The line, like a compass needle, pointed diagonally at that faltering spot a hundred yards below and to the left on the mountainside, the waves and shimmers of which began to gather and coalesce into solid black mass, a humanoid thing made from tentacles and shadow, clinging to the rocks.†   (source)
  • This tilting method, handed down from her grandmother and her mother, allowed Erica to do Jell-O desserts in a number of colorful diagonal stripes, working the combinations among half a dozen flavors.†   (source)
  • When the rear of the column spilled over a rise Shukhov saw to the right, far away across the steppe, another dark column on the move, marching diagonally across their course.†   (source)
  • Jason pivoted into the diagonal wall, crouching, his eyes darting into every recess in the vicinity of the wine racks.†   (source)
  • As she took her third step, she deliberately twisted her right ankle and stumbled diagonally across the room.†   (source)
  • Our flank was swinging; I was supposed to fire it sort of diagonally but with the required spacing to protect my own men from blast while still putting it in close enough to trouble the bandits.†   (source)
  • None of them made up words, whether you read the letters horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.†   (source)
  • No. More ...diagonal.†   (source)
  • Beneath the tunic, hanging diagonally across my chest, is a soft leather satchel filled with flatbread, nuts, and fruit sealed in oilskin, along with a canteen of water.†   (source)
  • An avid hunter, Rowland recognizes that the man is holding a rifle at port arms—diagonally across his body, with one hand on the stock and the other on the barrel.†   (source)
  • When you go to bed alone and arise alone, the sound of even a teaspoon in a china cup, very early in the morning, can be as graceless as the sound of a freight train slithering diagonally through a railyard, deliberately slow, scraping every switch.†   (source)
  • He rushed forward, his hands held up in a diagonal thrust, his wide chest and shoulders the base of his dual battering rams.†   (source)
  • This will show that the ball entered behind the left ear and traveled diagonally across the brain, coming to rest above the right eye.†   (source)
  • The verticals in the letter N could be drug dealers guarding a long diagonal stash of glassine product or they could be schoolgirls on a playground slide or a couple of sandlot ballplayers with a bat angled between them.†   (source)
  • I have pencils, wax crayons, scissors, a cube eraser, all new in a new pencil case, and my lunch is in a rectangular metal lunch box with a diagonal slot in the lid for a small pair of ivory chopsticks.†   (source)
  • We stopped on an elephant trail that led into the cave, beside a wall of rock that was covered with diagonal hatch marks made by the elephants tusking the rocks for salt.†   (source)
  • The Soviet backup was a nondescript sedan on the far shoulder of the road diagonally across from the restaurant.†   (source)
  • A large game center crammed with young people; wild electronic sounds; a group of college students spilling out from a bar; teenage girls with brilliant bleached hair, healthy legs thrusting out from micromini skirts; dark-suited men racing across diagonal crosswalks for the last trains to the suburbs.†   (source)
  • The plane swooped down abruptly, but it was only the start of its final rise, it cut a swift diagonal across the mountains and shot into the open sky.†   (source)
  • His answer was another burst of gunfire from the west side of the building, diagonally to the right of the wounded man.†   (source)
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