The intervals between the
horizontal lines in the diagram, may represent each a thousand generations; but it would have been better if each had represented ten thousand generations.
His external balloon, which had the dimensions given above, contained a less one of the same shape, which was only forty-five feet in
horizontal, and sixty-eight feet in vertical diameter.
With steady head and hand, he depressed the forward
horizontal rudder--just recklessly enough and not a fraction more--and the monoplane dived head foremost and sharply down the void.
As I hastened above to explore the strange shaft I found that the ladder of
horizontal bars mounted always as far above me as my eyes could reach, and as I ascended, the light from above grew brighter and brighter.
Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the
horizontal. But it is only found on the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man.
His mouth opened instinctively; his hands dropped the rushes, and seized the glass; his eyes raised from their
horizontal stare to the heavens; and the whole man was lost, for a moment, in a new sensation.
The trees nearly all belong to one family, and mostly have their leaves placed in a vertical, instead of as in Europe, in a nearly
horizontal position: the foliage is scanty, and of a peculiar pale green tint, without any gloss.
The billowing smoke was filled with
horizontal flashes.
Herons came, with a great bold noise as of opening doors and shutters, out of the boughs of a plantation which they frequented at the side of the mead; or, if already on the spot, hardily maintained their standing in the water as the pair walked by, watching them by moving their heads round in a slow,
horizontal, passionless wheel, like the turn of puppets by clockwork.
The figure was
horizontal; the smaller roots had begun to unite at the breast.
A very steep staircase, of unhewn stone, which was called by distinction "the ladder," led to the upper platform, upon which was visible a
horizontal wheel of solid oak.
We could find out whether they ran straight down, or were
horizontal, like mole-holes; whether they had underground connections; whether the owls had nests down there, lined with feathers.