zigzag

• Draw a zigzag--like a stroke of lightning. —  The Shadow World
• Or perhaps we might liken him to that ingenious piece of fire-work called a zigzag cracker, which explodes with unexpected and repeated suddenness, changing its position in a most perplexing manner at every crack. —  The Young Fur Traders
• Here and there a zigzag is found necessary, and in several places there are tracks of avalanches. —  Rivers of Ice
• The lightnings played against the inky clouds, forked, zigzag, and dazzling to the eye. —  Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'
• It is Norman, ornamented with a simply executed but very pleasing zigzag: the capitals of the piers are cushioned. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See

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