the way they used to scallop flannel petticoats. Gothic looks like triangles meeting together in various spots and joined with beautiful sort of ornamented knobs. I think I know Gothic when I see it. Then there is Norman, Early English, fully developed Early English, Early and Late Perpendicular, and Transition. Aunt Celia knows them all apart.英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
Doctor, be good enough to measure six paces" . "Take your places!" repeated Ivan Ignatevich, in a squeaky voice. "Excuse me!" I said. "One further con- dition. As we are going to fight to the death, we are bound to do everything possible in order that the affair may remain a secret, and that our seconds may incur no responsibility. Do you agree?" . "Quite."
"Well, then, this is my idea. Do you see that narrow ledge on the top of the perpendicular cliff on the right?英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Matadi was a great rock, blazing with heat. Its narrow, perpendicular paths seemed to run with burning lava. Its top, the main square of the settlement, was of baked clay, beaten hard by thousands of naked feet. Crossing it by day was an adventure. The air that swept it was the breath of a blast-furnace.英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》
The light mounted higher and higher, until it filled the whole world.... He floated toward an immense perpendicular cliff of black rock, without top or bottom. Halfway up it Krag, suspended in midair, was dealing terrific blows at a blood - red spot with a huge hammer. The rhythmical, clanging sounds were hideous. Presently Maskull made out that these sounds were the familiar drum beats. "What are you doing, Krag?" he asked. Krag suspended his work, and turned around. "Beating on Your heart, Maskull," was his grinning response.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
This caused a laugh, for the creature had a perpendicular neck, like a funnel, that rose out of a body like a horizontal cylinder.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
In the morning, before using the buffs, brush both as clean as possible, in order to free them from dust; then with the blade of a pair of shears, held perpendicular, rub the buffs from end to end; then knock them both together in order to free them from all dust or other substances, occasionally exposing them to the sun or to the fire.英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》
Don't you like it better that everything on your desk is perpendicular?美剧 · 《Friends》