horizontals

_left, _ had become habitual perceptions in dealing with food and fuel, the effective aim of a stone, the satisfactory flight of an arrow, would be discovered to depend upon more or less of what we call horizontals and perpendiculars, curves and angles; and the stability of a fibrous tissue upon the intervals of crossing and recrossing, the rythmical or symmetrical arrangements revealed by the hand or eye.

The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics Vernon Lee 1895

If we must have a slang for the flora of the brook garden we will term them "horizontals" -- the plants that lie flat on the water surface, and only use their stems as cables to anchor them to the bottom of the stream.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

He tells an Origins story of #Occupy Wall Street in which a group of activists he describes as "horizontals -- people more sympathetic with anarchist principles of organization, non-hierarchical forms of direct democracy, and direct action" split off from a demonstration originally organized by what he somewhat disdainfully calls "verticals -- that is, the sort of people whose idea of political action is to march around with signs under the control of one or another top-down protest movement."

Miles Mogulescu: Where Does the #Occupy Movement Go From Here? Miles Mogulescu 2011

Oppositional spots or lines attracting the vision into the land and thus diverting it from the horizontals are the only _recourse_.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

She believes all of these should be horizontals, meaning things a company does in the normal course of business.

Yahoo Keeps Mobile Focus On Content, Services 2010

She believes all of these should be horizontals, meaning things a company does in the normal course of business.

Yahoo Keeps Mobile Focus On Content, Services 2010

She believes all of these should be horizontals, meaning things a company does in the normal course of business.

Yahoo Keeps Mobile Focus On Content, Services 2010

She believes all of these should be horizontals, meaning things a company does in the normal course of business.

Yahoo Keeps Mobile Focus On Content, Services 2010

As at first there may be a little difficulty in realizing the resemblance between geometrical and perspective figures, and also about certain expressions we make use of, such as horizontals, perpendiculars, parallels, &c., which look quite different in perspective, I will here make a note of them and also place side by side the two views of the same figures.

The Theory and Practice of Perspective 1876

Heated debates pitted what became known as the 'horizontals', those who distrusted hierarchy and pushed for this movement of movements to be a flat decentralised network, against the 'verticals' who wanted lines of authority so political demands and action plans could be decided and stated with clarity and the apparent

Kasama 2009