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lengthwise
1. comfortably lengthwise and it had probably taken that same small army to move
2. home was finished it was “sawed in half” lengthwise, as we said,
3. The big challenge, was that it made the most sense to strafe a trench lengthwise
4. Two American pillows were under the sheet at the head of the bed, a folded sheet lengthwise at the foot
5. The synapses are more or less replaced by functional groups terminating the polymer chains that run lengthwise along the axon’s and dendrite’s surfaces
6. The shin-bones were split lengthwise, and there was but one explanation; they had been broken in that manner in order to obtain the marrow
7. While the roast is cooking, cut carrots in half and then cut them in half lengthwise
8. Cut lengthwise into fourths and wash well, removing any grit that may be trapped between the rings; dry well with paper towels
9. shells and cut the eggs into halves lengthwise,
10. were to cut the loop lengthwise with scissors, previously varying the number
11. “It says to cut open the stomach lengthwise with the scissors
12. lengthwise and scoop them out with a spoon
13. When he arrived in Asia a few weeks ago Francis would see people sprawl out lengthwise on three or four molded plastic chairs on the boats and take a nap
14. She placed five of them lengthwise over the center of the face, about a hand apart
15. Waiter places a clean wine cloth folded in four, lengthwise on the wine bucket and
16. Deseed the olives by cutting down the center lengthwise
17. Edgar withdrew his wand, separating it lengthwise in two, and with a grand gesture a half dozen Olde English Sheepdogs appeared, with their thick coats puffing them out twice their already substantial size and making them appear as though they’d spent too much time with a fluff dryer
18. The boy continued describing his vision, “I can see a large department store filled with different kinds of carpets… The carpets are lengthwise, stacked row by row along the walls
19. The body had been disemboweled and the spit rammed through lengthwise, emerging at either end of the spine, and the head was wired tight to the shaft just below where the top of the skull had been cut away and the brain removed
20. Half bacon crosswise and slice the two pickled gherkins lengthwise
21. that it consisted of an unshaped pencil split lengthwise, with
22. thirds, LENGTHWISE, and put one layer on the bottom of the casserole
23. Then the towels he unfolded and shook out and spread them out lengthwise behind her head at the end of the bed against the wall
24. There, he found Pam lying lengthwise across the couch, feet propped up on a pillow and head resting against the armrest
25. Captain Silat held out his lance lengthwise so that Viswava could perch there
26. Warp: The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof
27. Conseil, I also retrieve certain fish from the genus Tetradon unique to these seas: southern puffers with red backs and white chests distinguished by three lengthwise rows of filaments, and jugfish, seven inches long, decked out in the brightest colors
28. Her arms had fallen lengthwise before her, the fingers moving in slight convulsions; her head dropped upon her bosom, and her whole person seemed suspended against the tree, looking like some beautiful emblem of the wounded delicacy of her sex, devoid of animation and yet keenly conscious
29. The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section)
30. The bookmarks were old slips of memo paper, folded once, lengthwise
31. lengthwise or diagonally—Prohor Yermilin, also a renowned mower, a huge, black-haired peasant, went on ahead
32. It seemed to be made entirely out of steel, it was much longer than normal, and it had been split lengthwise into two legs joined by a massive hinge at the rear of the carriage and locked back into a single unit for towing purposes
33. It was half a chest, sawed lengthwise between the breasts
34. In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-abrac, there were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was written the following:—
35. Having noticed that the number indicating the greatest depth was apparently in the centre of the map, I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth, notwithstanding that the middle is so nearly level, the outline of the pond far from regular, and the extreme length and breadth were got by measuring into the coves; and I said to myself, Who knows but this hint would conduct to the deepest part of the ocean as well as of a pond or puddle? Is not this the rule also for the height of mountains, regarded as the opposite of valleys? We know that a hill is not highest at its narrowest part
36. It will have been seen that the Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale embraces the entire length of the entire top of the head; and since—as has been elsewhere set forth—the head embraces one third of the whole length of the creature, then setting that length down at eighty feet for a good sized whale, you have more than twenty-six feet for the depth of the tun, when it is lengthwise hoisted up and down against a ship's side
37. Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers
38. Ere long, it is taken down; when removing some three feet of it, towards the pointed extremity, and then cutting two slits for arm-holes at the other end, he lengthwise slips himself bodily into it
39. [SUDDEN, REPEATED FLASHES OF LIGHTNING; THE NINE FLAMES LEAP LENGTHWISE TO THRICE THEIR PREVIOUS HEIGHT; AHAB, WITH THE REST, CLOSES HIS EYES, HIS RIGHT HAND PRESSED HARD UPON THEM
40. But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat
41. At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with the White Whale's flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its advance—as the whale sometimes will—and Ahab was fairly within the smoky mountain mist, which, thrown off from the whale's spout, curled round his great, Monadnock hump; he was even thus close to him; when, with body arched back, and both arms lengthwise high-lifted to the poise, he darted his fierce iron, and his far fiercer curse into the hated whale
42. Till, gaining that vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and now, liberated by reason of its cunning spring, and, owing to its great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin life-buoy shot lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and floated by my side
43. After a brief consultation—whether to take the rows lengthwise or diagonally—Prohor Yermilin, also a renowned mower, a huge, black-haired peasant, went on ahead
44. Because, though oak is more firmly connected than birch, it is connected in such a way that it splits lengthwise, while birch does not
45. She rubbed it lengthwise again and the same thing happened
