endways

• “We were placed in two ranks, "endways," in such a manner that the heads of the front-rank men rested between the feet of their respective”

  The Scalp Hunters

• “Large blocks of stone, shaped to fit the upper surface of the rock, were laid upon it, generally endways, that is, with their smallest surface outwards, their length forming the thickness of the wall, which was sometimes as much as fifteen or twenty feet. [”

  History of Phoenicia

• “What had happened was that a cannon shot had hit the go-down roof just as the rockets went off, and a falling slat had knocked me endways; when I came to the first thing I saw was the firing-frame in ruins, with a beam across it, and I remember thinking, ah well, no more Guy Fawkes night until next year.”

  Fictionaut: The Sky Writer

• “Taking one endways in its bill and keeping it firm by a pressure of the tongue, it cuts a transverse notch by a lateral sawing motion of the sharp-edged lower mandible.”

  The Malay Archipelago

• “They turned it endways up with the bedsteads and mattresses.”

  Simon & Schuster: At Swim, Two Boys

• “The shock of it knocked my wits endways — but only for a moment.”

  Flashman In The Great Game

• “The shock of it knocked my wits endways - but only for a moment.”

  Flashman In The Great Game

• “The marble flags I ran on tilted endways, flinging me down on hands and knees.”

  The King Must Die

• “And we have done that in spite of a downturn in the American economy, comparable to that which in 1949 knocked our economy endways.”

  The Commonwealth and Britain's Economic Recovery

• “I was knocked endways about Collins; for who could have been on the corduroy road if he had not.”

  The La Chance Mine Mystery

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