All 28 Uses of
horizontal
in
The Magic Mountain
- Settembrini says we live horizontally—we're the horizontals, he says, it's another one of his rotten jokes.†
Chpt 3.6 *horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- Settembrini says we live horizontally—we're the horizontals, he says, it's another one of his rotten jokes.†
Chpt 3.6
- Primarily in the 'horizontal fashion,' as I've been told you like to put it.†
Chpt 3.9horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- Well, and did you find it diverting to live horizontally?†
Chpt 3.9horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- You must excuse me—I'm absolutely groggy, but then that's no wonder, really, when first thing in the morning you get whistled at by a pneumothorax and afterward have to listen to that Heir Albin talking, and from the horizontal position, to boot.†
Chpt 3.9horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- But when he heard his neighbors on the right and left ending their evening rest cure and returning to their rooms to exchange one horizontal position outside for another inside, he announced to himself his conviction that the barbaric married couple would be quiet.†
Chpt 3.9
- I have had my fill of horizontal living—it's as if my blood were practically falling asleep.†
Chpt 4.5
- On the contrary, it was better out there, incomparably more comfortable, by any criterion the most agreeable state of affairs that Hans Castorp could remember ever having tried out—a judgment from which he could not be dissuaded by some writer and Carbonaro who made malicious remarks with snide connotations about the "horizontal life."†
Chpt 4.10
- Now and then Hans Castorp would exchange a word or two with him, though discreetly, out of consideration for other "horizontals."†
Chpt 4.10
- He paced the room a few times, still holding the thermometer—horizontally, so as to not disturb the reading by some vertical shake.†
Chpt 4.10horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- The night was the more difficult half of the day, because Hans Castorp would wake frequently and often even lie awake for hours on end— perhaps because his overheated blood kept him alert or because his fully horizontal mode of life meant the loss of both the desire and the need for sleep.†
Chpt 5.1horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- The field was populated almost exclusively by youth rather than virtue, by unsettled folk who had found their way here from all over the world and had returned now for good and all to the horizontal form of existence.†
Chpt 5.8
- The one was dressed in a deaconess's black uniform, but with white horizontal stripes sewn onto it from collar to hem—short stripes, set close together, with a few longer ones here and there, like the markings on a thermometer.†
Chpt 5.9
- The majority of the residents appeared to have assumed the horizontal position.†
Chpt 5.9
- And the Berghof day had itself come round many times now since that day when Hans Castorp, lying there in his horizontal position, had felt hurt because the assistant had made a detour around his room, leaving him to his own devices.†
Chpt 6.1
- Then resuming his horizontal position, he called out softly to Joachim and asked about his fever chart.†
Chpt 6.4
- He could no longer lie still; Hans Castorp heard him pacing his room four times a day, during those hours when the rest of the Berghof assumed the horizontal position.†
Chpt 6.4
- If so, Hans Castorp thought it was very forced mockery, because his uncle had definitely not been in a mood for jests or mockery when he rushed off like that, but rather had come to the profound realization—and had turned pale with fright picturing it to himself—that upon his return to the flatlands, after a stay of only eight days, everything down there would seem totally false, unnatural, and wrong for a good while, that instead of heading off to his office after breakfast, he ought to take a short constitutional, then ritually wrap himself in blankets, and assume a horizontal position in the open air.†
Chpt 6.5
- But the local custom of discretion had meant that he learned of Karen's demise too late and that she had already been placed in a permanent horizontal position, in the garden of the cupid whose snowy cap was cocked to one side.†
Chpt 6.6
- Another apparatus for "artificial sunlight" was purchased, since the two in service could not meet the demands of those who expected electricity to help them get a tan—a color that flattered the young girls and women and gave the men a splendidly, irresistibly athletic look despite their horizontal lifestyle.†
Chpt 6.7
- Was that a horizontal position?†
Chpt 6.7
- Horizontal, that was the position appropriate to long-term members of "society up here."†
Chpt 6.7
- We looked no one square in the eye, but we assume there were many who felt a certain satisfaction in Joachim's having to leave his soldierly profession and resume an orderly, horizontal life with the rest of us up here.†
Chpt 6.8
- And there he stood now as if he had never left, and was received by his relative, who rose halfway out of the horizontal to shout his hellos and well-well's.†
Chpt 6.8
- From then on Joachim assumed a permanent horizontal position, and Hans Castorp wrote to Luise Ziemssen about it—wrote to her from his splendid lounge chair that he must now add to his earlier occasional reports the news that Joachim was bedfast and that although his cousin had said nothing, one could see in his eyes that it was his wish to have his mother beside him, and that Director Behrens had expressly seconded this unspoken wish.†
Chpt 6.8
- And it doesn't do any good when he tries to open them wide, it just gives him those deep creases that first extend up toward the temples and then spread horizontally across his brow.†
Chpt 7.2horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- The eyes were closed in peace, but the idol-like tracery of creases, four or five tense horizontal lines that turned down at right angles at the temples and had been formed by the habits of a lifetime, stood out in strong relief on the high brow encircled by white flames.†
Chpt 7.5horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- Things were no longer as they had been once, when, after first establishing sudden clarity, Heir Settembrini would sit down at the bedside of a horizontal Hans Castorp and attempt to influence him by correcting his opinions about matters of life and death.†
Chpt 7.10
Definition:
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.)
(When you are standing, you could be thought of as vertical. When lying down, you could be thought of as horizontal.)