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As the ship was 567 feet long and the sea was only 180 feet deep, the bow and stern were seen standing separately — a hundred feet of bow and a hundred feet of stern, each with red bottom paint and gray topside paint — rising perpen-dicular out of the water.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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Both the horses stand up perpen - dicularly in the air.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 Various 1898
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Figure 6.3, where CG and GE meet outside the triangle, but the perpen - diculars GD and GF fall on AC and CB.
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Figure 6.4, where CG and GE meet outside the triangle, but the perpen - − →
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Let C be the lowest point, draw the axis CD perpendicular to the horizon; draw also E F, Gn per - pendicular to CD; Fn a tangent at F, and Fm perpen - dicular to FE.
The principles of fluxions : designed for the use of students in the university 1812
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If a ray of light be reflected from a surface of glass, at an angle of 54° 35 ', and fall upon another plane of glass at the same angle, it will suffer no new i*cflection, arid will pass through the glass unal - tered, provided that the planes of reflection or refraction be perpen - dicular to each other; but if they are in the same direction, nothing remarkable will happen.
Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1 Humphry Davy, Sir Humphry Davy 1812
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If a ray of light be received perpen - dicularly upon a plain surface of island crystal, or rhomboidal car -
Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1 Humphry Davy, Sir Humphry Davy 1812
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Put AS = r, SC = z/, AB = a;, Bv = x cotemporary with the fluxions CE, Es; for the velocity of C perpen - dicular to SC: velocity of B perpendicular to SB:: SC
The principles of fluxions : designed for the use of students in the university 1812
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At this place the wall is carried over the summits of the highest mountains, some of which are not less than three thousand feet in perpen - dicular height, and appear to be almost inaccessible.
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NA parallel to CB 9 which will be the axis: for NA is a diameter which bife#: s §P - 9 therefore % P is an ordinate to that diameter; and becaufe it is perpen - dicular to NA; NA is the axis,
A Short Treatise on the Conic Sections: In which the Three Curves are Derived from a General ... 1794
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