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• The windows were large and rectangular, and opened up and down by means of sashcords, some of which were in need of replacement. —  When Last I Died - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 13: 1941
• The head in this picture is square or rectangular, and the wings likewise simple, ending in three incurved triangles without appendages. —  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
• There they taught youth to draw plans of fields which were for the most part rectangular, also to take the elevation of land by means of two laths and a square. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
• Plate XXXIX shows something of this surface character; and in the right hand portion of it may be seen some of the rows of bowlders forming the rectangular areas. —  Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262
• The earlier forms are likely to have been rectangular, the round following and developing later short masonry shafts which were finally given height by the addition of chimney pots. —  A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228

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