All 3 Uses
horizontal
in
Great Expectations
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- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.†
p. 5.5 *horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.†
p. 5.6
- 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.†
p. 435.4horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
Definitions:
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(1)
(horizontal) in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
(When you are standing, you could be thought of as vertical. When lying down, you could be thought of as horizontal.) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)