Right Lined

Fires, in their flying state, when they meet in contact direct with Fires in their fluid state gravitating, by their force, elasticity, and attraction, they proportionally yield to each other in their form; but those by superior momentum, forcing these before them in right-lined rays; and these, others in like manner. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle+ must conclude and shut up all. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thus the idea of a right-lined triangle necessarily carries with it an equality of its angles to two right ones. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We hold in scorn all right-lined pretensions but those of rectitude. ❋ Michael Caddell (2006)

PARALLE'LOGRAM, _s. _ in geometry, a right-lined four-sided figure, whose opposite sides are parallel and equal ❋ Various (N/A)

Beginning with the fundamental division of figures into curvilinear and rectilinear, this _dictum_ decides, that, in general, a curved outline is more beautiful than a right-lined figure. ❋ Various (N/A)

So mathematical is his fancy, that in vignette illustrations we have right-lined drawings of these surfaces and their different circles. ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)

Some way behind the owner of all this came the second man in the parish, the rector, the Honourable and Reverend Mr. Oldbourne, a widower, over stiff and stern for a clergyman, whose severe white neckcloth, well-kept gray hair, and right-lined face betokened none of those sympathetic traits whereon depends so much of a parson's power to do good among his fellow-creatures. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

A diagram illustrating a discovery in the relation of circles to right-lined geometrical figures. ❋ Augustus De Morgan (1838)

How infinitely is thy puddle-headed, rattleheaded, wrong-headed, round-headed slave indebted to thy super-eminent goodness, that from the luminous path of thy own right-lined rectitude, thou lookest benignly down on an erring wretch, of whom the zig-zag wanderings defy all the powers of calculation, from the simple copulation of units, up to the hidden mysteries of fluxions! ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

How infinitely is thy puddle-headed, rattle-headed, wrong-headed, round-headed slave indebted to thy supereminent goodness, that from the luminous path of thy own right-lined rectitude, thou lookest benignly down on an erring wretch, of whom the zig-zag wanderings defy all the powers of calculation, from the simple copulation of units, up to the hidden mysteries of fluxions! ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle [II. 5.g] must conclude and shut up all. ❋ Unknown (1643)

But yet so far as any complex idea of any sort of substances contains in it any simple idea, whose necessary existence with any other may be discovered, so far universal propositions may with certainty be made concerning it: v.g. could any one discover a necessary connexion between malleableness and the colour or weight of gold, or any other part of the complex idea signified by that name, he might make a certain universal proposition concerning gold in this respect; and the real truth of this proposition, that all gold is malleable, would be as certain as of this, the three angles of all right-lined triangles are all equal to two right ones. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"[Haha], [look at this] [ridiculous] right-handed laundry line holder over there!" ❋ Favorite Cousin (2012)