As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but
vertically now, and all was still.
At length, on the 22d of September, less than a twelvemonth after Barbicane's original proposition, the enormous weapon, accurately bored, and exactly
vertically pointed, was ready for work.
From this unseen receiver a little thread of green smoke rose
vertically into the quiet air.
In the window opening he set small branches about an inch in diameter both
vertically and horizontally, and so woven that they formed a substantial grating that could withstand the strength of a powerful animal.
Alert, dilating and contracting, as swift as cautious, and infinitely apprehensive, the pupils
vertically slitted in jet into the midmost of amazing opals of greenish yellow, the eyes roved the room.
And even if I wish to rise more quickly to the surface, I ship the screw, and the pressure of the water causes the Nautilus to rise
vertically like a balloon filled with hydrogen."
It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried
vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
On these occasions its head is invariably placed downwards; and its wings are expanded in a horizontal plane, instead of being folded
vertically, as is commonly the case.
In the rearing of skyscrapers, it is now usual to have a temporary wire strung
vertically, so that the architect may stand on the ground and confer with a foreman who sits astride of a naked girder three hundred feet up in the air.
Our seats, into which we strapped ourselves, were so arranged upon transverse bars that we would be upright whether the craft were ploughing her way downward into the bowels of the earth, or running horizontally along some great seam of coal, or rising
vertically toward the surface again.
{The above inscription lies
vertically to the left of the following letter in the print version --Ed.}
The ashes under the grate were lit by the fire
vertically, like a torrid waste.