Endwise

In one of Lincoln's earliest military problems was involved the process of getting his company "endwise" through a gate. ❋ Unknown (1868)

"endwise" by Mr. Hurley's practised fists after Hayne was struck down by the corporal's musket. ❋ Charles King (1888)

This was Hamilton Grange's second move; in 1889, a developer offered it free for the taking, and the nearby church, after razing the house's portico and piazzas, rolled it two blocks down from the top of Harlem Heights, where it overlooked both Long Island Sound and the Hudson River, and shoehorned it in endwise to serve as a rectory. ❋ Myron Magnet (2011)

As she ran to catch up, Aya realized that the opening was exactly the right size for one of the cylinders to pass through endwise. ❋ Scott Westerfeld (2010)

It was made of gigantic boulders stabbed endwise into the ground. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Secondly, do NOT think that you are going to hold back the ending because "I want the editor to be knocked endwise by the twist when s/he reads the book". ❋ Glenda Larke (2007)

The coffins were lifted endwise, and the dead Germans flung out upon their faces on the grass. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But, to make it still more plain: is not DISTANCE a line turned endwise to the eye? ❋ Unknown (2005)

On either side of the room stood narrow tables endwise to the walls, inclosed with high-backed seats like settles, forming thus a double set of little stalls or boxes, with scarcely space enough between for waiters, more urgent than New York firemen, to push their steaming and breathless way. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Now when I came to an unknown place, where a stone was set up endwise, with a faint red cross upon it, and a polish from some conflict, I gathered my courage to stop and think, having sped on the way too hotly. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Nearly all are great oblong barns, turned endwise to the road, 50, 60, and even 100 feet long, with the end nearest the road the dwelling-house. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Somers put on his jacket and went and sat on the form that was placed endwise at the side of the fire, facing the side of the judgment table. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Then, with the maul, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of this iron rod, he placed the blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly hammered that, several times, the mate still holding the rod as before. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Soon they came to a giant club stuck endwise in the ground, the thorny business end up. ❋ Anthony, Piers, 1934- (1994)

When all the men are set on the little flight of steps up to the door, five of them holding the timber endwise to the door, they start to swing it in their arms, bringing it sharply into the steel door on every third swing: ❋ Barnes, John, 1957- (1994)

Alvin looked upstream to see what devilment the river had in mind, and there was a whole tree floating down the river, endwise like a battering ram, the root end pointed at the center of the wagon, straight at the place where Faith was sitting, her baby on the verge of birth. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1987)