parallelopipedon

• “It was a dull parallelopipedon enough for living creatures at most hours of the day; but for a few minutes in the evening, as now, an errant, kindly ray lighted up and warmed the little world therein, when the many-coloured zoophytes opened and put forth their arms, the weeds acquired a rich transparency, the shells gleamed of a more golden yellow, and the timid community expressed gladness more plainly than in words.”

  A Pair of Blue Eyes

• “This object is made of a hard stone in the form of a perfect parallelopipedon with slightly rounded faces.”

  Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744

• “Each parallelopipedon of peat, cut to a depth of 10 feet, makes 144 sods, and this number can be cut in less than 10 minutes.”

  Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel

• “The most peculiar feature of the mound was perhaps its apparently regular form -- a perfect parallelopipedon.”

  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

• “On getting nearer to it, its character became somewhat altered; the square box-like form appeared less regular, and it was then perceived that the parallelopipedon was not perfect.”

  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

• “I could tell the solid contents of a cube, of a parallelopipedon, of a pyramid, of a globe (nearly), of a cylinder, and of a cone.”

  The Boy Tar

• “This was caused by the peculiar construction of the piano-case, which resembled a great parallelopipedon, with one corner sawed off.”

  The Boy Tar

• “On one side, near the wall, stood a desk or rostrum upon an elevated dais, and by the side of this a large block of cut stone of the form of a parallelopipedon.”

  The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West

• “The figure of the stone ought to be of Egyptian simplicity: a broadish parallelopipedon (or rather _octaedron_; the _corners_ well chamfered off, to avoid breakages, will make it 8-faced, I think); in the substance of the stone there is one quality to be looked for, durability; and the letters ought to be cut deep, -- and by no means in lapidary _lines_”

  Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1

• “The rock was 37 feet long, 22 high, and 21 broad, in the form of a parallelopipedon.”

  Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)

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