| 单词 | parallelogram |
| 例句 | “K is one rectangle and two parallelograms,” Sasha announced at the breakfast table one day. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The drawing room which had transfixed Cecilia that morning with its parallelograms of light was now in gloom, lit by a single lamp near the fireplace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I said”—Mr. Galicki raised his voice—“that I’m really surprised that you did so well on the pop quiz. You really understand parallelograms.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Their southeast aspect had permitted parallelograms of morning sunlight to advance across the powder-blue carpet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A child’s rubber slippers lay pigeon-toed in the bright parallelogram of barred sunlight on the floor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Divided in half by the High Line boardwalk, the work consists of faux-wood-covered birdhouses with parallelogram sides built into grids of shiny metal rods that converge to single points like perspective sightlines. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z Those obtuse triangles she wove for that must-have pillow appear too in tender gouaches on paper, locking into gray and salmon parallelograms like the teeth of a zipper. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The New York painter calls them “calligraphic parallelograms,” which is evocative, if not literally accurate. Review | In the galleries: Comic book artists show new dimensions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The parallelogram of the title, therefore, isn’t the shape you remember from geometry; it’s more of a pun, suggesting a message, like a telegram, from a parallel reality. Review: Self, Meet Your Future, in ‘A Parallelogram’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Most often, the artist’s parallelograms appear to gush horizontally, suggesting movement off or beyond the canvas. Review | In the galleries: Comic book artists show new dimensions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Only the James Turrell, a holographic parallelogram installed in a side room, picks up on the fugitive quality of Malevich’s forms. Art Review: It All Started With a Simple Square 2011-03-11T00:05:42Z The light fills the empty parallelogram of the room with an unpleasant sickly pallor. Artist Bruce Nauman's carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind 2013-01-30T18:12:43Z Black squiggles race across the surface surrounded by flashes of colour: a beam of yellow, a red parallelogram. Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos – from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park 2013-06-20T17:16:00Z During those experiments, Schwartz cut open a Möbius band and realized, “Oh, my God, it’s not the parallelogram. It’s a trapezoid.” Mathematicians Solve 50-Year-Old Möbius Strip Puzzle 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z They could arrange four hat tiles into a hexagonlike structure, two tiles into a pentagon and another combination of two tiles into a parallelogram. Newfound Mathematical ‘Einstein’ Shape Creates a Never-Repeating Pattern 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Two classes of shapes work, they proved: “boring parallelograms” and “surprising cyclic quadrilaterals,” cyclic meaning that all vertexes of a quadrilateral lie on a circle. A New Puzzle Turns Earth Into a Rubik’s Cube, But More Complex 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Now, we have to get it square since at this point it’s probably a parallelogram, not a right rectangle! A builder’s guide to squaring anything (and the math behind it) 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z In the tiling of colored dots representing where the rat was when each grid cell fired, four neighboring red dots formed the corners of a slanted rectangle known as a parallelogram. How Squishy Math Is Revealing Doughnuts in the Brain 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z A second method for adding vectors is called the parallelogram method. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z The sides of a parallelogram are 11 feet and 17 feet. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z One of Shigematsu’s preferred ways of describing the building — a three-story parallelogram draped in a honeycomb pattern that angles into an architecturally significant stretch of Wilshire — is as “a machine for gatherings.” Wilshire Boulevard Temple's new event space is daring — and trapped inside its own head 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Coupled with the transition away from a highly recognizable checkmark symbol to a muted gray parallelogram flag gizmo, YouTube has handled a hugely consequential decision in one of the strangest ways imaginable. Zuckerberg’s visit to DC shows how high the stakes are getting for Facebook 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z So topologists identified all the red dots, folding the parallelogram into a doughnut shape using an operation they refer to as “gluing.” How Squishy Math Is Revealing Doughnuts in the Brain 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The length of the diagonal of the parallelogram is the sum. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z See Figure 9 for a visual that compares vector addition and vector subtraction using parallelograms. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z They handed us a trophy as silver confetti rained down, great clouds of delicate parallelograms. “Lulu” 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z We need concept designers to explore further than merely deciding between variants of rounded-off parallelograms, and I applaud Kia for letting go of any sensible restraints. Kia turned 21 phone screens into a concept car dashboard 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z First, they glued together two opposing sides of the parallelogram, forming a cylinder with two red dots: one on the top and one on the bottom. How Squishy Math Is Revealing Doughnuts in the Brain 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z We can add vectors by using the parallelogram method or the triangle method to find the sum. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z A parallelogram has sides of length 16 units and 10 units. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z A cake might outwardly be inspired by Miura-ori, an origami fold involving a zigzag series of parallelograms, adapted in the 1970s by a Japanese astrophysicist for the deployment of solar panels on space satellites. The Secret Ingredient for These Desserts: A 3-D Printer 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Dad's, in Gibson's classic Sunburst finish, and with "dot" as opposed to the more common rectangular or parallelogram fret inlays, and still in it's dilapidated, original case, remains in the family. Is Gibson, a Totem of Guitar Godhead, Headed for Chapter 11? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In this way, the four red corners of the parallelogram become a single point on the doughnut. How Squishy Math Is Revealing Doughnuts in the Brain 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Use vectors to show that a parallelogram with equal diagonals is a square. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Throughout, Smucker’s parallelograms are an apt, minimalist delight — “Dry Powder” is about people who work the angles. Art of the deal: ‘Dry Powder’ at Seattle Rep rips into the world of sharky finance capitalists 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z I was a floundering student of mathematics but fond of the words “rectangle,” “parallelogram,” “circumference” and “quadrangle.” It Was Always the Words 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Because of its parallelogram shape, from this angle it looks to have no depth, but that’s an illusion. ‘Concrete can be beautiful’: readers' modernist American architecture photos 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “This house is very much us,” Miao said of the Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced design, which is based on a parallelogram grid. Designers give Lloyd Wright's Dorland house in Altadena a colorful, personal spin 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Show that a linear transformation for which ad − bc ≠ 0 maps parallelograms to parallelograms. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Think about it: a square or rectangle can easily be pressured into a parallelogram without changing the length of its sides. What's the deal with triangles? 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years later, the author's recall of long-forgotten high-school math saves the day and allows him to turn a parallelogram into a rectangular field for kids soccer. Take 2: My cock-eyed soccer field and teacher appreciation, a few years too late 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z It's probably the only rock album with the word "parallelogram" in the lyrics. Obituary: Lemmy, Motorhead frontman - BBC News 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Designed by Guy Dreier, the hilltop house is a jumble of curves, triangles and parallelograms. Qualcomm’s Andrew Viterbi Lists California Estate for $60 Million 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Let S denote the surface of the parallelogram. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z The quadrilateral he drew is a parallelogram, though he called it a rhombus. Misnaming a rhombus is no laughing matter 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Resembling a small equilateral triangle hitched to a parallelogram, Lyra is one of the smaller but more easily recognized classical constellations, visible all summer long. This Week's Night Sky: Ghostly Stellar Ring Revealed 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z On one possession, Smith ditched the triangle to run a one-man parallelogram, barreling his way to the basket. Knicks Preview Triangle, and Rerun Defensive Lapses 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z One day, for example, the young students would derive the formula for finding the area of a rectangle; the next, they would use what they learned to do the same for parallelograms. Why Do Americans Stink at Math? 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z We saw in Area of a Parallelogram that the area of this parallelogram is ‖ u × v ‖ . Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Consider the physical box itself, a sharp-cornered, blade-edged ebony parallelogram that’s roughly 11 inches wide by 2 inches tall by 12 inches deep and weighs just 6 pounds — orientable either horizontally or vertically. The PlayStation 4 Is Sony's Comeback Console 2013-11-13T15:05:39Z It looked like a silvery extrusion of a trapezoid atop a parallelogram. City Room: A 'Dematerializing' 4 World Trade Center Reaches a Material 977 Feet 2012-06-24T20:51:06Z “This figure,” says Sir G. Wilkinson, “enclosed in a parallelogram, in which form it would signify ‘the abode of good,’ was depicted or sculptured upon the front of several houses in Memphis and Thebes.” The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z This enclosure was a parallelogram seven hundred and fifty by five hundred feet. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Then these vectors form three edges of a parallelepiped, a three-dimensional prism with six faces that are each parallelograms, as shown in Figure 2.59. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z It formed, as has been before said, a long parallelogram at the extreme of the building, built out upon the high bank to the west, and had probably been designed originally for a chapel. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z For example, deep notches were created in the two broad angles of the tower's parallelogram shape to help define the edges of the facade. City Room: A 'Dematerializing' 4 World Trade Center Reaches a Material 977 Feet 2012-06-24T20:51:06Z On a straight line the two beams and the two axles formed a rectangle; on curves, a parallelogram, the angles varying with the degree of curvature. Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works 2012-04-03T02:00:35.800Z The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z By Area of a Parallelogram, vectors P→M and v form two sides of a parallelogram with area ‖ P→M × v ‖ . Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Some very pleasing examples are to be met with which have the form of a parallelogram with a lightly-rounded roof; others of appropriate character are square or nearly so, with a ridge-and-furrow roof. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z It was a parallelogram, and mounted barbette guns only. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Our statutes provide that a lode claim may not exceed an area of 20,662 acres, this being the area of a parallelogram 1,500 feet long by 600 feet wide. The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z If u and v are not scalar multiples of each other, then these vectors form adjacent sides of a parallelogram. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z It also appears to me that he has overlooked the fact that my diagrams were sections, showing the perspective inclination and declination of the lines of a parallelogram towards the point of sight. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z Around each door was an enclosure, formed by stakes surmounted with poles, in the shape of a parallelogram, whose dimensions were about ten by sixteen feet. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Fort Griswold is a parallelogram, having a foundation of rough stone, on which very thick and solid embankments have been raised. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The Barracks occupy a parallelogram of about three hundred feet on the river, by nine hundred in depth. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z The building is a parallelogram, flanked by four round towers, with large casemates and a keep on its southern side. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z As nearly as possible it falls under that art rule of producing an oblong or parallelogram of the most agreeable proportions, which is as the diagonal is to the square. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z On the whole, the best form is that of a parallelogram, with its longest sides in the proportion of about five to three of the shorter, and running east and west. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Some of them were conical, some elliptical, some square, and some parallelograms. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z It is in shape an irregular parallelogram, divided into two nearly equal parts by the range of the Eastern Ghats, which intersects it throughout its entire length. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Res′olūtive.—Resolution of forces, or of velocities, the application of the principle of the parallelogram of forces or velocities to the separation of a force or velocity into parts. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Generally the convoy was formed in a long parallelogram, the distance across the front of which was much longer than the depth or distance along the sides. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The wall of the Chinese town was added to that of the Tartar city to form a parallelogram; it is similar to the former, though somewhat more modest. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z My plan is to set up four stakes, about 6x10 feet, forming a parallelogram. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z The district is in shape an irregular parallelogram, with a general slope northward from the low hills on the southern boundary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The moving masses are represented by the piston and its rod, the spring and the levers of the parallelogram stylus. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z The hall was generally a parallelogram on plan, with a raised da�s at the farther end, a large bow window on one side, and in one or two cases on both sides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Imagine an appeal to all the agricultural, manufacturing, mercantile, and trading interests of this country, to stay their pursuits, and shape themselves by Mr. Owen's parallelograms. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z I nail two pieces of the same width and height, one foot long, on to each end of this board, forming a parallelogram four feet long and one foot wide, minus one side. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z At the same time there was to be on the ground a parallelogram of holes with a sort of goal, or “home,” at two corners. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z The main building itself is a parallelogram, near half as deep as it is long. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z This is done by considering the first two thrust lines as two sides of an imaginary parallelogram and using a drawing compass to draw intersecting arcs locating the position of the missing corner. A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 2011-11-02T02:00:14.587Z The representations in these parallelograms, are believed to have originated in the Mexican fable of the suns, which will be hereafter noticed. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z No hand has altered it, that parallelogram, So inharmonious, so ill arranged; That hard blue roof in shape and colour's what it was; No, it is not that any line has changed. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z Here a comfortable bed had been formed by driving the ends of six forked sticks, arranged in a parallelogram, into the earth. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z When talk turned to Proposition 34 of Book One, which states that a parallelogram’s diagonal divides it into equal areas, not one digit was used or even mentioned. St. John?s College Puts Emphasis on What Teachers Don?t Know 2011-10-17T00:35:56Z If the opposite sides of a quadrilateral are equal, the figure is a parallelogram. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The first of these, designated by the letter H, is placed between the parallelograms C and D, and consists of two squares of five oblongs each, indicating the Aztec numeral 10. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Its form approaches an irregular parallelogram, with many deep and almost isolated indentations. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Triangles and parallelograms of the same altitude are to one another as their bases. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Your line cuts and carves the water into all manner of squares, triangles, and parallelograms. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Bindle kept the party amused, that is, except Mr. Brunger, who was too wrapped up in the bone parallelograms before him to be conscious of anything else. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z We pass now to the construction of a function having two arbitrary periods ω, ω′ of unreal ratio, which has a single pole of the second order in any one of its parallelograms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Euclid considers next proportions connected with parallelograms and triangles which are equal in area. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z In front of the palace was a space forming a parallelogram of considerably over a quarter of a mile long by some three hundred yards wide. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z Euclid, for example, gives this one as follows: If a parallelogram have the same base with a triangle and be in the same parallels, the parallelogram is double of the triangle. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The horses were still in the traces, and just beyond the wagon a long, narrow parallelogram, of the length and breadth of a legal mining claim, had been marked out by freshly driven stakes. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Now consider the sum of the inverse cubes of the distances of the point P from the corners of all the original parallelograms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z It is to be remarked that Euclid proves these propositions only in the case when the parallelograms or triangles have their bases in the same straight line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Henty observed upon his descent to the gate of the tower six strong posts, four being placed to make a parallelogram with cross pieces at the top, to one of which was attached a windlass. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z The proposition should be discussed for the case b = b', when it reduces to the one about the area of a parallelogram. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z In one end of the parallelogram two of the men were digging perfunctorily, while the third was tacking the legal notice on a bit of board nailed to one of the stakes. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z For my own part I would have a rectangular garden and simple parallelograms for the beds, although the rose garden about a central feature has its strong attractions. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z Next this parallelogram is transformed into another parallelogram, which has one of its sides equal to a given straight line, whilst its angles remain unaltered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Forces acting in the direction of lines forming an obtuse angle, will also produce motion in the diagonal of a parallelogram. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z Two parallelograms are congruent if two sides and the included angle of the one are equal respectively to two sides and the included angle of the other. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Then they wandered into the church—a massive parallelogram, with a green ash-tree springing from its belfry. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Contrast it with some parallelogram which is not a rectangle, and which you must have ready. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z The complements of the parallelograms which are about the diameter of any parallelogram are equal to one another. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z You must now allow me to draw a parallelogram, Mrs. B. Let me consider in what direction will the force of projection now impel the earth. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z We therefore speak of congruent triangles and congruent parallelograms as being those that are superposable. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Its site occupies three sides of a parallelogram, and it is completely enclosed by a wall, furnished at the four angles of its square with towers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z This parallelogram is surrounded by the ocean, which breaks in in four great gulfs, namely, the Mediterranean and Caspian seas, and the Persian and Arabian gulfs. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z As every polygon can be divided into a number of triangles, we can now construct a parallelogram having a given angle, say a right angle, and being equal in area to a given polygon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z They 317 are then cut into parallelograms of various sizes, the outer portion of the circular section near the bark being cut away, and all defective wood rejected. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z By analogy to "parallelogram" the word is often spelled "parallelopiped," but the best mathematical works now adopt the etymological spelling above given. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Goodrich Castle forms a parallelogram, with a round tower at each angle, and a square keep in the south-west part of the enclosure. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z Here the diagonals of the two parallelograms are of equal length but the one on the right appears much smaller. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z For each of the triangles into which the polygon has been divided, a parallelogram may be constructed, having one side equal to a given straight line and one angle equal to a given angle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z These parallelograms are then assorted as to size, and fitted together at the back by brass bolts and nuts. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z He set forth the theory of the parallelogram of forces, using only rectangular components, however. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The hell of open daylight was the docks of the plateau of Satory, a vast parallelogram enclosed by walls. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Thus at San Zeno at Verona, the bas-reliefs, full of incident and interest are confined to a parallelogram of the front, reaching to the height of the capitals of the columns of the porch. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z If these parallelograms be placed side by side, they may be added together to form a single parallelogram, having still one side of the given length. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z These are the following: a square—half circle—a flower with the stem bent—a lion in repose—the three sides of a parallelogram—two feathers, and a crooked line. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The word "diameter" is from two Greek words meaning a "through measurer," and it was also used by Euclid for the diagonal of a square, and more generally for the diagonal of any parallelogram. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z It formed a parallelogram, two stories high, with large garrets at the top. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z There is no dynamics in the work and therefore no room for the parallelogram of velocities, which is given with a fairly adequate proof in the Aristotelian Mechanica. Archimedes Men of Science 2011-03-13T03:00:23.660Z As each parallelogram is bisected by a diagonal, the last theorems hold also if the word parallelogram be replaced by “triangle,” as is done in Props. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z He had arranged with the trustees for a provisional possession of Verney House, the great stone mansion which glorifies one side of the small parallelogram called Verney Square. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z We use "parallelogram" to cover "rhomboid," "rhombus," "oblong," and "square." The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Thus, a circle, a square, a parallelogram, or triangle, pleases by its regularity. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z In Dane county there is a remarkable group, consisting of six quadrupeds, six parallelograms, one circular tumulus, one human figure, and a small circle. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Taking the parallelogram a rectangle, or the triangle isosceles, we get: Any two lines and the bisections of their angles form an harmonic pencil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The parallelogram just defined represents "the City" in modern London, or "la Cité" in modern Paris—the original nucleus round which gradually clustered the dwellings of later generations. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z The opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The long parallelogram, with the host at one end and the hostess at the other, is stiff, too broad, too long, and isolates the givers of the feast from the guests. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z Students at the middle school affiliated with Jing’An Teachers’ College were asked to explain the relative size of geometric shapes by using Euclid’s theorem of parallelograms. Shanghai Schools? Approach Pushes Students to Top of Tests 2010-12-30T03:09:53Z This will be seen by considering the parallelogram in the first case as an inscribed four-point, in the other as a circumscribed four-side, and determining in each case the corresponding polar-triangle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Philadelphia, formerly the capital of the United States, is a city of eight or nine hundred thousand inhabitants, and is built like New York, in parallelograms. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z This proposition is a very simple test for a parallelogram. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The plan is a rectangular parallelogram with a frontage of 180 ft. and a depth of 333 ft., more than double, therefore, of the size of Serbistan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" They are in geometrical forms—circles, squares, parallelograms, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Further— Every parallelogram inscribed in a conic has its sides parallel to two conjugate diameters; and Every parallelogram circumscribed about a conic has as diagonals two conjugate diameters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Three fine squares alone break the monotony of all these parallelograms of streets: Washington Square, Union Square, and Madison Square. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z If two sides of a quadrilateral are equal and parallel, then the other two sides are equal and parallel, and the figure is a parallelogram. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The president had long felt that the purpose of this violent lover of parallelograms was, to unseat him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Is it necessary that it should be unknown to him, and unfortunately sometimes also to his schoolmaster, how an angle is determined, a parallelogram measured, and an ellipse drawn? Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. If a solid be contained by six planes two and two of which are parallel, the opposite planes are similar and equal parallelograms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z In the gaps between them long parallelograms of gardens could be seen joining others even longer that led up to the backs of another road behind. Sinister Street, vol. 2 This was Euclid's first proposition on parallelograms, and Proclus speaks of it as the connecting link between the theory of parallels and that of parallelograms. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z It looked cool and plentiful in the slanting sunlight—a rippling parallelogram flecked with gold. The Shadow of a Man The interior was a well-proportioned parallelogram of good height, with a grand wooden roof of carved beams of a dark hue, possibly black with age. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 For a triangle is equal in area to half a parallelogram which has the same base and the same altitude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Nothing could be less surreptitious than those chatting nursemaids, and actually in one of the parallelograms of garden a child was throwing a scarlet ball high into the air. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Its shape is an irregular parallelogram, 224 feet long, and 100 wide. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II It would be difficult to find anything so curious in the course of any other river as this immense, irregular parallelogram which the Columbia here describes from its sources to Arrow Lake.... With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 Propositions 24 and 26 relate to parallelograms about diagonals, such as are considered in Book I., 43. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The form of the charts is a parallelogram constructed on a framework of cane or other light wood. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work The properties of the parallelogram are often applied to proving figures of various kinds congruent, or to constructing them so that they will be congruent. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The form was frequently that of a square or a parallelogram, with sides forty or fifty feet long. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The castle crowned the summit of a crag, ruined but imposing; in shape a parallelogram, it had in front square towers, five stories in height, pierced with round-arched windows. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu They form a parallelogram nine hundred feet long and three hundred feet wide. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands The park wherein it lay is a parallelogram, and a body in it would be practically in front of every other house in the square. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident The best way to introduce this theorem is to cut a parallelogram from paper, and then, with the class, separate it into two parts by a cut perpendicular to the base. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z It forms a parallelogram abutting on the sea, the high, precipitous cliff forming a sea wall 1500 feet in length. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. The castle was built in the form of a parallelogram, after the French model, with four strong curtain walls protected at the angles by boldly projecting round towers, 54 feet high and 29 in diameter. Hastings and Neighbourhood The structure was in shape a parallelogram, the seats running in long rows, tier upon tier the whole length, certain stalls, however, being returned against the west wall on either side of the entrance. Haviland's Chum Just a plain parallelogram; no attempt at ornamentation, no verandah, not even a stoep. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Thus, forming a solid parallelogram of amazing magnificence, the royal army awaited our onset. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar There are three small towers, that is of small diameter, but lofty; and two larger, one of which is circular: the other is a parallelogram terminating by a semicircle at one of its extremities. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. The region of superior tobacco is comprised within a parallelogram of twenty-nine degrees by seven. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time Then cutting a small hole in the form of a parallelogram, near the upper end, he adjusted a stopper with flattened surface so as to fit exactly the opening. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. To make sure of it, notice four fainter stars near it which make a parallelogram—a sort of diamond. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Davis was surprised, and something more, as he entered the breakfast-room the next morning to find the Rev. Paul Classon already seated at the table, calmly arranging certain little parallelograms of bread-and-butter and sardines. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Suppose the form of the field, as is usually the case, to approach a parallelogram or square, and that the wind blows in any direction but diagonally across it. The Dog I am also grateful to this city for breaking the monotony of the eternal parallelograms with which the whole of the United States are built. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things The rectangular parallelogram so formed is nearly equally divided between land and sea, the south-eastern half being a portion of Northern France, and the north-western half the English Channel. Crécy The court was a parallelogram, paved with smooth, round stones, and on three sides surrounded by native-built houses, unoccupied, but very large and commodious, all in good repair, and ready for a perspective feast. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia So freedom of the will consists in this that reason impels men to the right and irrationality to the left and according to this parallelogram of forces the true direction is that of the diagonal. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" Lo! how beautifully these fast-travelling pointers do their work on that black mountain's breast! intersecting it into parallelograms, and squares, and circles, and now all a-stoop on a sudden, as if frozen to death! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) When I say that it is an American city, I mean to say that Toronto is a large area, covered with blocks of parallelograms and dirty streets, overspread with tangles of telegraph and telephone wires. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things In the strophes of the epic the earth was a flat and stationary parallelogram. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The interior of the church is a large parallelogram, with an ornamented carved ceiling. Old and New London Volume I He turns it slightly, and now it is no longer visually a rectangle, but an oblique parallelogram. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life The tract forms a parallelogram 250 m. from N. to S. by 100 to 150 m. wide. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Lo, how beautifully those fast-travelling pointers do their work on that black mountain's breast; intersecting it into parallelograms and squares and circles, and now all a-stoop on a sudden, as if frozen to death. Home Life of Great Authors “Not had—what you call it?—round meal—no, square meal,” the Indian replied, making an explanatory parallelogram with his hands, “in four moons.” Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 We have all looked at maps of the country, and wondered at the sort of chess-board counties which prevail in the back settlements: the same system of parallelograms extends to the farms. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement If admissible anywhere, it is for the sake of variety at the top of the building, as the flat parallelogram sometimes not ungracefully in Italian Renaissance. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) We will debate as to whether this equality of parts exists in all parallelograms, trapeziums, and like figures. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts These remains, indeed, in almost their whole course can be traced through present-day gardens and back premises, shewing the four sides of an irregular parallelogram. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time The camp, in form, is an irregular parallelogram, and troops may be rushed to at once reinforce any point assailed. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 The palace, in its present state, is composed of three distinct buildings, erected at different times, and forming collectively three sides of a parallelogram, whose fourth side is merely a wall. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy The region of the best tobacco is comprised within a small parallelogram of very limited extent. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The apartment in which this passed was an oblong hall, a parallelogram, lighted with windows on its two longer sides, and with two doors opposite each other at the two ends of the room. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 Those squares and parallelograms of bare ground indicated the foundations of buildings. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 The massive walls were all topped with white cement and stretched like broad ribbons, crossing and recrossing each other in regular parallelograms on a black ground. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt The tables at which the guests are seated form three sides of a parallelogram. Six Centuries of Painting The walls half-way up are lined with tiles, squares and parallelograms, blue, white and green. Portuguese Architecture Standing in open ground, it was a parallelogram of square pickets pointed at top, with bastions and sentry boxes at the angles, and enclosed over half an acre. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State It must now become a commonplace town, with straight lines, rectangles and parallelograms, like Philadelphia, New York, or the Haussmanized Paris of Napoleon III. Pius IX. And His Time Its shape is a parallelogram approaching to a square. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 The center is equally distant from every point of the circumference of a circle, or from the opposite boundaries on each axis of a parallelogram, etc.; the middle is more general and less definite. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions These nations appear to have had the use of squares and parallelograms, in their geometry, without circles, or parabolic lines. Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 The result will be that there will be a compromise, and it will really arrive at P, travelling along the diagonal of the parallelogram AP. Pioneers of Science It is a simple parallelogram, 104 feet long and 21 feet broad, the gable having an opening in which the bells hang. Our Italy In the midst of a large velvet patch of closely-cut grass she had a great parallelogram marked out which was to represent the Swedish flag. The Golden House So far as could be seen at all through the turgid atmosphere of the room, it was a parallelogram of solid opacity crossed by a window-frame, with a hopeless tinge of Roman ochre. Somehow Good It is laid out, in the form of a parallelogram, about a mile and a quarter long, and half a mile wide. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe But then these two areas are equal, because they are triangles on the same base AS, and between the same parallels BP, AS; for by the parallelogram law BP is parallel to AD. Pioneers of Science I do not know how many families lived in this house; but it was a huge parallelogram with a paved courtyard, in the centre of which stood a wooden pump. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Windlesham lies on the western edge of the Common, and straggles over a dozen short, crooked roads—an oasis among parallelograms. Highways and Byways in Surrey The general design of the castle was a parallelogram defended by a round tower at each of the angles with an Anglo-Saxon keep. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls The room was quite dark; the two high windows, screened by clear muslin blinds running on gilded rods, showed pale parallelograms of cold twilight. The Dop Doctor It appeared to amuse her very much to see how I twisted and interlaced the tracery, so as to fill up every little corner of the parallelogram. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers The work itself was in general outline a parallelogram, with bastions at the four angles. Admiral Farragut Great banks, which must have cost thirty enslaved nations the labour of years, formed a bold framework for the immense parallelogram. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt A parallelogram of infinite altitude is impossible, because the limit of its altitude is assigned in the side which must be parallel to its base in order to constitute it a parallelogram. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The girl continued to draw outrageous parallelograms in the dust. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies These scaffolds are constructed by placing three upright posts in the ground in the shape of a parallelogram, and connecting them by lateral bars. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography What a difference! leaves and parallelograms; a forest and a brick wall! Spare Hours Rows of electric lamps formed a huge parallelogram, in the centre of which was a long black object, undoubtedly the airship hangar. With Haig on the Somme Such expressions as infinite sphere, radius, parallelogram, line, and so forth, are self-contradictory. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles In shape the fort was a parallelogram, having a block-house at each corner with lines of pickets eight feet high between. Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. The parallelogram of force tends everywhere to equilibrium and secures further action and new processes under universal law. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology No hand has altered it, that parallelogram, So inharmonious, so ill-arranged; That hard blue roof in shape and colour's what it was; No, it is not that any line has changed. Modern British Poetry It was a solid mass of patchwork, composed of squares, parallelograms, and hexagons. Aunt Jane of Kentucky Yes, compromise is a purely mechanical affair, based on the principle of the parallelogram of forces; and as public opinion is the result of a compromise, we may calculate its force. The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. Some of the inclosures are parallelograms 200 by 100 feet in extent; one is much larger. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology It appears, however, that the idea was finally abandoned, though there is a square moulding over the door, and a parallelogram on the northern wall of the Synagogue purposely made for it. Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 With toil we set up the front of our stockade and a portion of the sides of the parallelogram. Marjorie The squares were of dark gray and red-brown, the hexagons were white, the parallelograms black and light gray. Aunt Jane of Kentucky In dioptrics, is a geometrical solid bounded by three parallelograms, whose bases are equal triangles. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It stood around three sides of a parallelogram, with some peculiarities of construction connected with the ends or wings. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology He used another Mark, which is a large upright parallelogram, within the lines of which is a very elegant Greek sarcophagus bearing a skeleton lying on a mat. Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography Our garrison, taken by surprise, had left their posts every man, and stood together at one end of our parallelogram. Marjorie Its flat top formed an oblong parallelogram, at one end of which stood the dwelling-house, the other being occupied by the storehouses and stables. The Tiger Hunter An oblique parallelogram, having its opposite sides equal and parallel, but its angles not right angles. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The plan is a parallelogram, with a semicircle at the further end. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The body of the building forms a parallelogram 50 feet by 42 feet; the tower, upwards of 60 feet high, was built some years afterwards, at a cost of £1,000. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account It lay across the slightly undulating sandy plain like a long yellow ruler; and on each side were the neatly marked squares and parallelograms of the little truck farms, all cultivated by Italians. Days Off And Other Digressions The bottom line was about two feet above the surface of the ground; and the parallelogram itself was outlined lengthwise against the tree. Ran Away to Sea An odd word applied to staysails, or anything triangular, as was the oblong square to a parallelogram. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The parallelogram was about two hundred and sixty feet in length and one hundred and fifty in breadth. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky The four sides of this parallelogram were formed of eight companies of the 13th Regiment, five of the 80th Regiment, the 90th, 58th, and 34th Regiments, together with the 17th Lancers and the mounted irregulars. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 The landlady of the boarding-house is a parallelogram—that is, an oblong figure that can not be described, and is equal to anything. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 These lines formed a parallelogram about three feet in length by two in breadth. Ran Away to Sea A prism or solid figure contained under six parallelograms, the opposite sides of which are equal and parallel. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. We lashed the hatch-battens together in the form of a parallelogram, fastened the sail to this, and stayed the structure by means of various devices. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Our troops were formed up in a hollow parallelogram, in the centre being the native contingent with ammunition waggons. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 This big, open space, shaped like a parallelogram, walled by hotels, Government buildings, and shops, struck me as a Spanish combination of Piccadilly Circus and the Mansion House, thrown into one. The Car of Destiny In the other hand you see an object about eight inches in length, of the form of a parallelogram, and of a dark brown colour. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire If two of the parallel sides of a parallelogram are longer than the other two, and the angles are not right angles, as in Figure 69, it is called a rhomboid. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Around each man four long pins were driven into the ground, in the form of a parallelogram. The Scalp Hunters And again he says, "That the parallelogram of forces is a necessary truth;" a law of motion of which we surely can conceive its opposite to be true. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. The Lozenge is a diamond-shaped figure, or a parallelogram set diagonally. The Handbook to English Heraldry A parallelogram, nearly forty feet long by twenty-five in width, the narrower side fronting the sea, was the plan of the main building. The Island Home If the length of the sides of a parallelogram are all equal and the angles are not right angles, as in Figure 68, it is called a rhomb, rhombus or diamond. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught In mechanics the parallelogram of forces is quackery, and is dangerous; for nothing is at rest, or in uniform, or in rectilinear motion, in the universe. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I There was then a hard, long straightness about his head and face, giving to his countenance the form of a parallelogram, to which there belonged a certain meanness of expression. Orley Farm Other mounds were arranged in squares, triangles, and parallelograms. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Early in the reign of George III. the traders were ousted from Westminster Hall; and in 1834 the dirty and mutilated vast parallelogram was thoroughly cleaned and repaired. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting This was a fortified station in the form of a parallelogram, constructed partly of masonry, and partly of wooden palisades, strengthened by two bastions containing magazines. Canada Two or three of these first arrivals almost brushed him as they lunged past, drawing in toward the spot where Sonntag's doubled-up body made a darker blot in the darkened parallelogram beneath the portico. From Place to Place A gay-coloured parallelogram stared out from the grass beside him; for there, covered with a patchwork quilt, lay, in a great basket, the baby, the little girl, the pride of the household, fast asleep. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories The monument is a parallelogram in shape, thirty-five feet long by nineteen feet wide, with walls of travertine, and decorations of white marble; and it is surrounded by votive altars and pedestals of statues. Pagan and Christian Rome In Owen's parallelograms there were to be no prisons: he admitted no power in one man to inflict punishment upon another for merely obeying the dictates of natural propensities which could not be resisted. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Outside the parallelogram, at the distance of six yards, stand two other stones of the same description, which probably served as a portal of approach. Byeways in Palestine Look, here is a very lovely parallelogram of green surrounded by petasites. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside We lunched on a meadow inside a parallelogram of poplars. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) The platform, in the shape of a parallelogram, 183 feet broad and a few feet longer, is built of roughly squared blocks of capellaccio, exactly like certain portions of the Servian walls. Pagan and Christian Rome A few lines dropping out of the Life of Robert Owen, the parallelogram Communist, were hustled, as the nearest place of refuge, into the biography of his closest alphabetical neighbour—"Oxford, Bishop of." The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Five other decoys furnished as many parallelograms of seventeen by eight and a half, which made good two and three quarter inch pipe, and afforded nearly seven feet in length when affixed to the cylinder. Adrift in the Ice-Fields The school was a parallelogram, bowed at one end, and about the dimensions of a moderately-sized chapel. Rattlin the Reefer It is an irregular parallelogram, two hundred and twenty-four feet long, and a hundred wide. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific It is in the form of a parallelogram, with wings on each side of the front, each wing being nearly one hundred and fifty yards in length. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Here we were thrown upon our backs, each of us in the centre of four trees that formed a parallelogram. The Rifle Rangers Next, they deliberate on the plan of their future camp, after which they lay out distinctly a regular parallelogram, offering room enough for the brother and sisterhood, somewhere from one to five acres. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Closely surrounding this central depression are four parallelograms about four inches by ten inches in the original pictures. The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 It forms the northeast corner of a conspicuous parallelogram. A Field Book of the Stars A generation ago salt-cellars were made of convenient shapes—either ellipses or elongated parallelograms: the advantage being that the salt-spoon, placed lengthwise, remained in its place. Memories and Studies The dancers formed the figure of a parallelogram, each standing opposite his partner, or rather moving, for they were never at rest, but kept constantly beating time with feet, head, and hands. The Rifle Rangers Gnome.—The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations In the constellation Orion, which contains the most beautiful cluster of stars in the heavens, and is visible all over the inhabitable world, are four stars which form a parallelogram. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen The splendid first-magnitude star Rigel is diagonally opposite Betelgeuze, and the girdle and sword of the Hunter lie within the parallelogram, a very striking group. A Field Book of the Stars The court is a parallelogram of three hundred and sixty by three hundred feet. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland From shoulders to the ground he was in the form of a parallelogram. The Kentucky Ranger Rhomb.—An equilateral parallelogram or a quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides, B, B, parallel. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations Within the parallelogram thus formed, you will note three very bright stars in a line. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen We could just see the parallelogram of Orion, with red Betelguese at one corner, and across from it Rigel, scintillant like a blue diamond. Out Around Rigel The great East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, which has not inaptly been called "the backbone of the rebellion," intersected this parallelogram at Chattanooga. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure They divide the veldt into a series of rough parallelograms. On the Heels of De Wet The new buildings which surround the garden of the Palais Royal form a parallelogram, that for beauty is not to be matched in Europe. A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 My earliest recollections are of a square courtyard surrounded by high walls and paved with blue and white pebbles in geometrical patterns—circles, parallelograms, and lozenges. The Adventures of Harry Revel They considered the earth as a parallelogram, flat, and surrounded by four seas, as a kind of house, with heaven as its upper story and the earth as its ground floor. The Necessity of Atheism Thus it will be seen that to destroy the northern and eastern sides of this parallelogram isolated Beauregard, and left East Tennessee, which was then almost stripped of troops, to fall easily before General Morgan. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure You see the parallelogram? well, you go slap-bang into it. On the Heels of De Wet Note that the vanishing points should be at equal distances from S, also that the parallelogram in which each tile is contained is oblong, and not square, as already pointed out. The Theory and Practice of Perspective It consisted of a rough parallelogram enclosed by flat stones set upright and embedded endwise in the earth. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia The shape, either a parallelogram or a square; for it will be recollected, that this is a place allotted, not for a show or pleasure ground, but for profit. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings A parallelogram is drawn upon the ground and subdivided into four squares, which are numbered. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 The garden of the Tuileries is a parallelogram, of, I should think, fifty acres, of which one end is bounded by the palace. Recollections of Europe Suppose him to represent one end of a parallelogram e�s�, and his image a�b� to represent the other. The Theory and Practice of Perspective The place of meeting was an elevated parallelogram tombstone, which had always served as a kind of council table to settle our little disputes as well as parties of pleasure. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide For swings the ends of two withes of buffalo hide were secured to four trees or posts which formed the corners of a parallelogram. Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 263-288 The narrow windows let in thin slants of mote-filled sunshine, vortices of gold-dust; and on the faded carpet, by the door, lay a bright parallelogram, warming to life its dim old colours. The Lady Paramount Taking the roofs of the palace, for instance, the eye followed its field of slate and lead through a parallelogram for quite a mile. Recollections of Europe The roll of the wheel will therefore measure the area of the rectangle which equals the parallelogram QTT′Q′. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The stilted arch is chiefly found in conjunction with the semicircular arch in the construction of Norman vaulting over a space in plan that of a parallelogram. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. This church is a parallelogram, without east or west windows or aisles, and is built upon a fine groined crypt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The dominant characteristic of the building—a great parallelogram jutting out from the hill-side into the very heart of the town—is its powerful mass. The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals The pedestal is in shape a long parallelogram, narrower at the lower end. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The black parallelogram to the west of the painting designates a red streak in the rock in which are their homes. Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians "I call you," answered O'Connell, "a parallelogram; and a Dublin judge and jury will say that it's no libel to call you so!" Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell They have permanent abodes, in shape a parallelogram, with a semicircle at one end, and of a size to contain several families, sometimes a whole tribe. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Roughly, then, its basic outline was that of an irregular parallelogram, while its profile was that of a flat-topped cone. The Border Boys Across the Frontier We have thus traced the parallelogram which incloses the group. Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation It is apparent, therefore, that both these forms are used sometimes for words of which l is the chief phonetic element, and that the parallelogram and two interior dots are the essential elements. Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. The science of acoustics is as yet but little understood; all that we seem to know thus far is that the plain, unadorned parallelogram is the best form. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter It consists of a parallelogram, from which three chapels of equal size project, one at the east end, and one at the north and south. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series In parallelograms of the second type one pair of parallel sides is a pair of rects and the other pair is a pair of point-tracks. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 In form it was an irregular parallelogram, about eight hundred yards in length and six hundred yards wide, and on the walls were eleven strong bastions. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire The universe is a flat parallelogram; and its length is exactly double of its breadth. Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. This fine concession is a rectangular parallelogram, whose dimensions are 2,000 yards long from north to south, by a breadth of half. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative A section of one of the tubes at the Britannia pier is in the form of a parallelogram, where it is 30 feet high, gradually diminishing towards each end to 20 feet. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) The second axiom of congruence concerns parallelograms on congruent bases and between the same parallels, which have also their other pairs of sides parallel. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 The town was a small one, and the fort one of the ordinary native forts, built in a parallelogram with flanking towers. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire One window, which he knew was Cara's, still showed a parallelogram of light behind its drawn shade. The Lighted Match Government House is a large parallelogram of bamboo. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative In shape it is a parallelogram, about 280 feet long by 70 feet wide, with two wings on the S. front. Hertfordshire Thus there are three types of parallelograms in the four-dimensional manifold of event-particles. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 When they reached Squire Merritt's house and saw all the windows, parallelograms of golden light, shining through the thick growth of trees, his hands and feet were cold, his heart beat hard. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel The farther one is cut first, and when cleared, shows a large, long, black parallelogram in the midst of the plain of snow. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention When she reached the church the bell had stopped ringing, and the vestry windows were parallelograms of yellow light; the meeting was in the vestry. Jane Field A Novel Behind many of the imposing and escutcheoned frontages there was nothing but heaps of rubble; the footsteps of rare passers-by woke lonely echoes, and strips of grass outlined in parallelograms the flagstones of the roadway. Romance In parallelograms of the first type the two pairs of parallel sides are both of them pairs of rects. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 The ceiling is also of the same materials; but marked and diversified by divisions of square, or parallelogram, or oval, or circular, forms. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three Diameters parallel to the sides of a circumscribed parallelogram are conjugate. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry The form of the structure is that of a parallelogram, and it is two hundred and twelve by one hundred and twenty-six feet. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business Through the cracks round a large stone showed a parallelogram of light. Romance In parallelograms of the third type the two pairs of parallel sides are both of them pairs of point-tracks. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 The first side of it has the crucifixion, in a sort of parallelogram frame work--in the centre: surrounded by a double arabesque, or Greek border, of a most beautiful form. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three The area of the parallelogram whose adjacent sides are x and y is one half the area of the triangle AOB, and therefore, by the preceding paragraph, is constant. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry The approaches to the building are fine, and the structure forms a parallelogram of two hundred and forty-three feet by one hundred and eighty. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business I made out ghastly parallelograms of a ship's sails high above us, and at last many faces peering unseeingly over the rail in our direction. Romance By the aid of this axiom it easily follows that the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 The nave is a sort of elongated parallelogram. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three The lodges of the Baron's followers were massed to one side, and as I whistled and swaggered my way past their great bark parallelograms, I saw preparations for war. Montlivet We first form a parallelogram, and from that the square. Amusements in Mathematics The cantonment was in the form of a parallelogram, with the Bimaru heights running along, and protecting, the northern side. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief This parallelogram was to be divided lengthwise into three equal spaces, one in the centre for a driveway, and one on each side for the cow platforms and feeding mangers. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm A cube presents many of the principal elements of geometry; it at once exhibits points, straight lines, parallel lines, angles, parallelograms, etc., etc. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library In geometry, the cylinder, circle, sphere, are defined as what you get by going through certain processes of construction, revolving a parallelogram upon one of its sides, etc. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals We then find the mean proportional between the length HD and the height of the parallelogram. Amusements in Mathematics The story is cut into the form of a parallelogram. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution This reservoir seems to have been a long and somewhat narrow parallelogram, running nearly from north to south, which shut in the great palace on the east and protected it like a huge moat. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. It is not a square, but a parallelogram, having two longer and two shorter sides. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The rank of the pursers was indicated by the outline of a parallelogram for the second, and two of the same figure, one within the other, for the first. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat The doctor who attended him—a very scientific man—informed me that the bullet entered the parallelogram of his diaphragmatic thorax, superinducing hemorrhage in the outer cuticle of his basilicon thaumaturgist. Initial Studies in American Letters This was folded on itself, 27 making a parallelogram seven feet six inches long and three feet nine inches wide. The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island This sheet of water is a parallelogram, the angles of which face the cardinal points: in its greater diameter it extends somewhat more than ten miles, while it is about seven miles across. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The second story is, like the first, a parallelogram, and not of very different proportions. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. They saw beyond the convent yard the great plaza into which they had driven the cattle, a parallelogram covering nearly three acres, inclosed by a wall eight feet in height and three feet thick. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad If the chariot, B, could be put upon f f and work, if needful, by a double parallelogram from m m, we should have, excepting the skew pull, some great practical advantages. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 The front door opened, and a parallelogram of lighted interior became visible. 'Doc.' Gordon His garden—a parallelogram of seventy-two feet by twenty-three, confined by brick walls—lay at the back of our domicile, which excluded all but the late afternoon sunshine. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 It was in the form of a parallelogram and was surrounded by a palisade twenty-five feet high. The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war The station consisted of forty cabins, placed in parallel lines, connected by strong pallisades, forming a parallelogram of thirty rods by twenty, and enclosing something like four acres of ground. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life His head quakes and vibrates, his face grows black, the mouth opens into a parallelogram, the sharp little tongue plays about the mass of black tobacco. David Lockwin—The People's Idol The form of a cross used in some churches seems to me not so eligible as the parallelogram of the ancients; at least, I imagine it is not so proper for the outside. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) This will be better understood if the reader will describe a parallelogram, and draw therein the arc of a circle equal to that described by his leg, whether knock-kneed or bandy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 He stood before me, a thin parallelogram of black with a mosaic of white about the throat. The Inheritors It stretched before them in a vast parallelogram, and while the oats were the pale gold of the austral, there was the tint of the ruddier metal of their own Northwest in this. Winston of the Prairie A good drinking cup may be made from a piece of birch bark cut in parallelogram shape, and twisted into pyramid form, and fastened with a split stick. Camping For Boys Let the parallelogram GCFH, made by the principal section of the Crystal, as previously determined, be traced separately. Treatise on Light A very large parallelogram, for the most part surrounded by cloisters, is first entered from the gates which open on the road. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 The mines extend over that parallelogram of the earth's surface, comprised between the parallels of 50� and 60� of north latitude, between the Volga and Amoor rivers. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 Four rods are jointed together to form a parallelogram, the sides of which can be lengthened or shortened to suit the scale of reproduction. Things To Make And almost at the end there fell a parallelogram of light across it from an open door. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 The fort covered a parallelogram of about an acre, and was built of log cabins placed at intervals along the four sides, the logs notched closely together, so that the walls were bullet-proof. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 In its present condition, it forms a parallelogram of crude brickwork measuring 410 feet from north to south, and 223 feet from east to west. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Almost at the end, a parallelogram of light fell across it from an open door. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales It was a parallelogram more than 3 miles round, which covered an area of 360 acres. Ancient Town-Planning The daylight grew, minute by minute, on the dull parallelogram of the blind, and minute by minute that horrible thing on the bed took something of distinctness. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 The shape is a parallelogram, having an arched roof, and it is strengthened by a framework of timber 10 inches square. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 At Heliopollis, at S�n, at Sais, at Thebes, everywhere in short, we find long straight walls forming plain squares or parallelograms, without towers or bastions, ditches or outworks. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Organisation for political work is always educative to those who take part in it, and it has some effect on the infinitely complex parallelogram of forces which determines the direction of progress. The History of the Fabian Society The outline of the frontiers may modify the shape of the quadrilateral so as to make it approach the figure of a parallelogram or trapezoid, as in Figure 2. The Art of War It consists of a perpendicular parallelogram with a square above, thus Wherever this blaze is found everybody in the region knows it for a ranger's blaze, denoting a trail leading to a ranger's cabin. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The plan is a parallelogram, 204 feet in extent, and sixty-five wide. Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic Consequently at the present day the traveller who visits French Canada sees the whole country divided into extremely long and narrow parallelograms each with fences and piles of stones as boundaries in innumerable cases. Lord Elgin This of the Prince of Orange stands in the park, near that of the King, and is a simple parallelogram with two gates. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland The form was a perfect parallelogram, including from a half to a whole acre. The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. The walls were irregularly covered with rhombuses, rhomboids, lozenges, diamonds, triangles, and parallelograms; the carpet was treated likewise, and also the upholstery and the cushions. The Pretty Lady It was here, as in other places, hard, but did not scintillate with steel, and was divided, by lines of a still harder iron-tinged stone, into squares and parallelograms of various sizes. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 The law of Polarity finds fulfilment in the complex and flowing lines of the draped figures contrasted with the simple parallelogram of the cloth-covered table, and the severe architecture of the room. The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture A warm parallelogram appeared and disappeared as Langholm opened his door and went in. The Shadow of the Rope The chateau forms a parallelogram of large dimensions; round it were formerly nine towers, of which eight were demolished to the level of the wall in 1814. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 471, January 15, 1831 The ordinary extent was from one hundred to four hundred arpents, usually in the shape of a parallelogram with a narrow frontage on the river, and extending inland to a much greater distance. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 We also noticed in the net one or two immense fish, in shape like rounded parallelograms, with tough shagreen hides, goggle eyes, and two immense leathery fins placed at the lower part of the abdomen. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 A building is an aggregation of the commonest geometrical forms: parallelograms, prisms, pyramids and cones—the cylinder appearing in the column, and the hemisphere in the dome. The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture What she looked upon was an oblong space enclosed by brick walls ten or twelve feet high, and divided by a lower wall—also of brick—into two parallelograms of unequal width. True Tilda In plan the castle consists of a rectangular parallelogram with a cylindrical tower at each angle The interior is gutted, but as the beam-marks still remain, the general arrangements are easily reconstructed. Somerset It was the rear room on the second floor, and it presented a stern parallelogram occupied by the bare necessaries of a sleeping-apartment. The Precipice This chapel is an exact parallelogram and the frescoes which cover the four walls are thus arranged above the wainscot, which rises about eight feet from the ground. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts Such a series always approaches unity, just as, represented graphically by means of parallelograms, it tends toward a square. The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture The fort was in shape a parallelogram, some two hundred and fifty feet long and half as wide. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 The form of a masonic lodge is said to be a parallelogram, or oblong square; its greatest length being from east to west, its breadth from north to south. The Symbolism of Freemasonry She seemed to see it before her eyes--a purple eidolon, a parallelogram in shape. The Precipice Its form is that of a parallelogram: it is 800 yards long and 400 wide. The Illustrated London Reading Book The fields were neither circles, squares, parallelograms, nor triangles. Hodge and His Masters It contains sixty-five acres: a parallelogram formed by three parallel lines of hot-houses and conservatories, united at the extremities by covered corridors, constitutes the grand feature of this establishment. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 This, as it stands, is no definition of a prism, but an assertion of two things; that a prism is a solid, and that all the sides of a solid are parallelograms. The Grammar of English Grammars That is to say, it is a long parallelogram with flat sides, raised upon pillars, and approached by a flight of steps. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Minos.—I can't resist giving you just one more tit-bit—the definition of a square at page 123: "A quadrilateral which is a kite, a symmetrical trapezium, and a parallelogram is a square!" The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Maxstoke Castle Is situated about one mile east of Coleshill, and is erected in the form of a parallelogram, encompassed by a moat. A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington It is then taken to another apartment, and placed in duly prepared compartments under a strong screw-press, by which operation it is transformed from a loose cylinder to a well squashed parallelogram. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada They are unequal in size, five being short parallelograms, and four being spaces of the same shape but twice their length. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti This game is played by marking out in the dust or sand a parallelogram, which is subdivided into a varying number of compartments. Philippine Folk-Tales The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures. Gulliver's Travels According to Cosmas, the earth is a parallelogram, flat, and surrounded by four seas. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom The space contained was a parallelogram of great length. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women Stephen lay watching the Great Bear; Elfride was regarding a monotonous parallelogram of window blind. A Pair of Blue Eyes The diagonal AD of the parallelogram, of which AB and AC are adjacent sides, will represent, both in direction and magnitude, the motion of the rain as apparent to the observer. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Whereas a woman—whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge—is fundamentally and always interested in clothes. Daddy-Long-Legs And he placed it in that gentleman's fingers, who now took his turn at the lamp, and contemplated the little parallelogram with a gleam of sly amusement. Wylder's Hand No hand has altered it, that parallelogram, So inharmonious, so ill-arranged; That hard blue roof in shape and colour's what it was; No, it is not that any line has changed. Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh St. Martin du Var has its Mairie, handsome communal schools, and large public walks or recreation ground, a parallelogram planted with trees. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" The mechanical idea, named the parallelogram of velocities, permits a ready and easy graphical representation of these facts. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The form of this garden is a parallelogram, whose length is seven hundred and two feet by three hundred in breadth, taken at its greatest dimensions. Paris as It Was and as It Is The whole was surrounded by palisades twenty-five feet high, defended by a small bastion with a pointed roof at each of the four corners of the parallelogram formed by the enceinte. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude The piers are massive parallelograms without mouldings, the arches between them semicircular, stilted, perfectly plain; a string alone marks the rise of the arch from the pier. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The house formed three sides of a parallelogram, the open portion of the court in the centre, facing the cliff. Satanstoe The general ground-plan is a parallelogram, with irregular outlines, one side overlooking the Tweed; and the style is mainly the Scottish Baronial. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It forms a parallelogram with its angles cut off, which are surrounded by ditches, guarded by balustrades, breast high. Paris as It Was and as It Is The Central Park, so called because it is situated almost in the centre of the island, is a parallelogram, and lies between Fifth and Eighth Avenues, and Fifty-ninth and One-hundred-and-tenth streets. The Secrets of the Great City This monolithic church has for its base a parallelogram measuring 120 feet by 60 feet. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The building is in the shape of an L, or two sides of a parallelogram, one of which shows a front of seventy-five, and the other of fifty feet. Satanstoe They were usually long parallelograms unbroken by transepts. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The form of this house is nearly a parallelogram: one of the shorter sides is occupied by the stage, and the other three are slightly curved. Paris as It Was and as It Is The so-called 'Seals of the Kings' were dark stones, probably used for painting the skin; they bore parallelograms enclosed within one another, diaper-work and gridirons of raised lines. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Only one angle of the parallelogram is cut off, where stands the stately circular tower of Constance. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc He studied it, pencil in hand and notebook by his side, filled with diagrams and contours of country and little parallelograms all askew denoting Army Corps or divisions. The Mountebank The Sherpur cantonment as found by Roberts consisted of a fortified enciente, enclosing on two sides a great open space in the shape of a parallelogram lying along the southern base of the Behmaroo heights. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Its form is a parallelogram of four hundred and fifty toises in length by one hundred and fifty in breadth. Paris as It Was and as It Is But, unhappily, until both men and fairies adopt Mr. Owen's proposition, and live in parallelograms, they will always be the victims of ennui. The Pilgrims of the Rhine The largest section seems to have had an open court in the center in the form of a parallelogram. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines I love the parallelogram of grass marked out with chalk or tape, as if its limits were the frontiers of my sacred Fatherland, the four seas of Britain. Tremendous Trifles But this outburst of powder-burning against the southern face was a mere incident; what men listened and watched for was the development of the true assault on the eastern end of the great parallelogram. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 On the grass-plot are strewn the fallen blossoms of the cherry-tree, and over the scene broods a parallelogram of sombre sky. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. The exterior walls of the fort, whose figure was that of a parallelogram, were fifteen feet high and four feet thick. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Now because $\\epsilon\\gamma$ is a parallelogram and $\\nu\\iota \\| \\theta\\gamma$, and $\\epsilon\\theta$ and $\\beta\\gamma$ cut the parallels, therefore $\\epsilon\\theta : \\theta\\iota = \\omega\\gamma : \\gamma\\nu = \\beta\\omega : \\upsilon\\nu$. Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes It is a parallelogram measuring from north to south seven hundred and forty-four feet, and five hundred and eighty feet from east to west. Castilian Days You cannot alter the nature of a set of objects by arranging them in different shapes, parallelograms, or squares, or circles, or any others. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII The city is laid out in the form of a parallelogram intersected by two main streets crossing in the centre. Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute The whole area of the interior of the building did not exceed a parallelogram of twenty feet by twelve. Tom Cringle's Log In following the history of geography we see the Cassipa, figured as a rectangular parallelogram, enlarge by degrees at the expense of El Dorado. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 In the centre of the parallelogram stands the great church, surmounted by its soaring dome. Castilian Days Three thousand milks across, and half that breadth, is the magnificent parallelogram of our domain. The American Union Speaker In November the general conducted his hundred or more human derelicts to Port Royal, and, going up the stream, chose the site for his city of Savannah, and laid it out in liberal parallelograms. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 The interval between the lowest rings was 1 metre 63 centimetres; and this would give the measure of the doorway, here probably a parallelogram. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Its characteristics are the argentiferous and cupriferous ores, whereas in South Midian gold and silver were worked; and the parallelogram whose limits are assigned above, might be converted into a Northern Grant. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 As there are arcades on the three sides of this parallelogram, they form the favorite meridian promenade of the belles and beaux of Florence, particularly on Sundays and holidays, after coming out of Church. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 On the other side Jack found himself surrounded by walls of books, which formed a parallelogram around a great deal table littered with magazines and papers. Over the Pass The building is a parallelogram of 200 feet long by 80 feet wide, and is 58 feet from the floor to the ceiling. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States Around it are ruined parallelograms of every size, which in ancient times may have been workshops connected with the buildings in the island higher up. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Beginning from the north lie two blocks of building considerable in extent: the southern, called by the Arabs El-Malká, is a broken parallelogram. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 The top of the mountain is heathery like Scotland, and open; but not long will it be so, for everywhere are the fenced parallelograms which indicate that a villa is to be erected. A Wanderer in Florence The hacienda, so far as I could see in gliding across, formed a huge, massive parallelogram, strengthened by enormous buttresses of hewn stone. Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea You are asked, let us say, to spell "parallelogram." Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough Crossing the torrent-gully we left on its right bank the ruins of large works, especially the upper parallelogram. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 On the north-north-east lay the chief furnace, a parallelogram of some twenty-three paces, built of stone and surrounded by scatters of broken white quartz and scoriæ. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Still, during the first eight or ten years of their married life, when the children were young, they had at least appeared to the casual eye as, say, a rectangular parallelogram. Mother Carey's Chickens The arrested Representatives entered into the courtyard of the barracks, a huge parallelogram closed in and commanded by high walls. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness At the hour we have named, the vast parallelogram of the piazza was filling fast, the cafés and casinos within the porticoes, which surround three of its sides, being already thronged with company. The Bravo Here lie the principal ruins, forming a rude parallelogram from north-east to south-west. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 He quizzed Mr. Owen most unmercifully; pinched him here for his parallelograms; hit him there for his human perfectibility, and kept the whole audience in a roar of laughter. Domestic Manners of the Americans Internal secretion traits are inherited, and variations in heredity are essentially the structural representation of the resultant of a parallelogram of forces exerted by each of the parental prepotent glands. The Glands Regulating Personality Knoxville was so situated that its outline was a sort of parallelogram of high ground, averaging a hundred and fifty feet or more above the river which ran along the town on the south. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 The plateau in general outline may be considered a parallelogram, four miles in length from north to south, and two and a half miles in width inside the bends of the river. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 The shape of this once celebrated town is a tolerably regular parallelogram, of which the long sides run from east to west. First Footsteps in East Africa The shape is an irregular parallelogram, 224 feet long, and 100 wide. The Hawaiian Archipelago They were known afterwards as Dutch houses, usually one story high, and built pretty much after the same model; a parallelogram, with a wing at one end, and often to both. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian At the four corners of the parallelogram, enclosed works had been planned for use by a small garrison, and these had been partly constructed. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 "It is not altogether beyond the range of possibility that you will marry," said the Doctor, tracing parallelograms on the arm of the chair. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Places of worship appeared in the shape of parallelograms, unhewed stones piled upon the ground, with a semicircular niche in the direction of Meccah. First Footsteps in East Africa So they constructed what they sincerely hoped was a simplified diagram, not so different in principle and in veracity from the parallelogram with legs and head in a child's drawing of a complicated cow. Public Opinion The division of the land into uniform parallelograms, as in France, was a marked feature, and is so throughout the Dominion. Locusts and Wild Honey The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram—that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. Literary Lapses Within the parallelogram the player places his ball upon a tee or small hill of sand or earth from a half to three-quarters of an inch high. Healthful Sports for Boys The village was as irregular as a village should be, partly consisting of those white houses with intersecting parallelograms of black which still abound in some regions of our island. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood It appears, then, that the world is a flat parallelogram, twice as broad from east to west as it is long from north to south., Public Opinion There were also little free parallelograms of yellowish, highly translucent matter. Insectivorous Plants The Government, he said, was aware of the intimate relation in which His Grace stood to the bottom end of a parallelogram and was prepared to respect it. Literary Lapses First of all, without thinking of the towers, we devote out considerations to the /façade/ alone, which powerfully strikes the eye as an upright, oblong parallelogram. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Now it is logically evident that the theorem of the parallelogram of velocities is equally valid for movements with constant or variable velocities. Man or Matter It was in the form of a parallelogram, two hundred feet long by ninety wide, and about eighty feet in height, the ascent to the entrance being by eighteen granite steps. Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks One of these ways was higher on the slope than the other, the whole parallelogram lying aslant, so to speak, on the side of the hill. The Ball and the Cross |
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