But a wise ordinance of Nature has decreed that, in proportion as the working-classes increase in intelligence, knowledge, and all virtue, in that same proportion their
acute angle (which makes them physically terrible) shall increase also and approximate to the comparatively harmless angle of the Equilateral Triangle.
But we withdrew at an
acute angle not only because the French advanced between our two armies; the angle became still more acute and we withdrew still farther, because Barclay de Tolly was an unpopular foreigner disliked by Bagration (who would come his command), and Bagration- being in command of the second army- tried to postpone joining up and coming under Barclay's command as long as he could.
The city forms an immense triangle marked out upon a vast plain of white sand, its
acute angle directed toward the north and piercing a corner of the desert.
The air is an unstable medium at best, and quite without warning, at an
acute angle, he entered an aerial tide which he recognized as the gulf stream of wind that poured through the drafty-mouthed Golden Gate.
Not because I was squeezed in at an
acute angle of the table-cloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
The vine at once altered its course, making an
acute angle, and again made for the stake.
A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very
acute angle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light.
This latter case is remarkable, as the electric fluid must have turned back at the
acute angle of 26 degs., to the line of its main course.
The face wore its mildest expression: the grizzled bushy eyebrows had taken their more
acute angle of compassionate kindness, and the mouth, habitually compressed with a pout of the lower lip, was relaxed so as to be ready to speak a helpful word or syllable in a moment.
Triumphing in having been the first to communicate this extraordinary intelligence, Mrs Nickleby nodded and smiled a great many times, to impress its full magnificence on Kate's wondering mind, and then flew off, at an
acute angle, to a committee of ways and means.
At the far end, with his body resting upon the bar and a cigar stuck at an
acute angle from the corner of his mouth, stood a tall, strong, heavily built man who could be none other than the famous McGinty himself.
It was not more than forty feet across at the mouth, but it rapidly closed until it ended in an
acute angle, too straight and smooth for an ascent.
acute angle - an angle less than 90 degrees but more than 0 degrees