"Horizontality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a building into mere "halves" has usually a weak and monotonous effect, but about two thirds of the distance from the base line; and this band of ornament not only breaks up the plain surface a little, but also, by carrying another horizontal line along the wall, emphasizes its horizontality. Always emphasize that which is the essential characteristic of your structure. A wall of this kind is essentially a long horizontal boundary. Emphasize ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 • Various
... Well, that thing has assumed, all of a sudden, a concreteness as welcome as it is unexpected. Ballard showed me a telegram yesterday from lower Broadway (the heart of Darkest N. Y.) which tends to prove that people there are ready to finance the deal. It would have amused you to see the horizontality of the coat-tails of the management of the Lattimore & Great Western, as they flaxed round getting up a directors' meeting, so as to have a real, live directorate of this great transcontinental line for the wolves of Wall Street to do business with! Things like this are what you miss by ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... remarked, that all these sedimentary formations are stratified. In level countries, as might be expected, the disposition of the layers is nearly horizontal. In approaching mountainous countries, this horizontality, generally speaking, ceases; finally, on the sides of mountains, some of these layers are very much inclined; they even sometimes ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... starting from the generator, ending at the engendered (2), expressing by its horizontality the co-equality of ...
— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various
... of generation starting from the generator, ending at the engendered (2), expressing by its horizontality the co-equality of the principiant ...
— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various |
