Both Uses of
right angle
in
As I Lay Dying
- The path runs straight as a plumb-line, worn smooth by feet and baked brick-hard by July, between the green rows of laid-by cotton, to the cottonhouse in the center of the field, where it turns and circles the cottonhouse at four soft right angles and goes on across the field again, worn so by feet in fading precision.†
Chpt 1right angles = angles measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
- It turns off at right angles, the wheel-marts of last Sunday healed away now: a smooth, red scoriation curving away into the pines; a white signboard with faded lettering: New Hope Church.†
Chpt 27 *
Definition:
an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)