spirit-level

I tried to peer through one of the tiny portholes, clutching at its brass fitting, remembering some advice about keeping the horizon in view to allow it to work as a spirit-level for the stomach.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Fifty yards ahead of him, the embankment ended in an undisturbed dune, and the tiny figure of “a white man with a spirit-level.”

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Fifty yards ahead of him, the embankment ended in an undisturbed dune, and the tiny figure of “a white man with a spirit-level.”

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Fifty yards ahead of him, the embankment ended in an undisturbed dune, and the tiny figure of “a white man with a spirit-level.”

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Whereafter, of myself in particular, he inquired as he raised the spirit-level:

Through Russia 2003

With which, stuffing his cap into his bosom, and grasping the spirit-level in his hands, Ossip set foot upon the ice with a sliding, cautious, shuffling gait.

Through Russia 2003

The eyes are elongated ovals, based on singularly mobile pivots, while the pupils resemble the bubble of a spirit-level.

My Tropic Isle 2003

To the left or westward of that supposed river channel, a mighty isolated mountain mass shut out any view of the further course of the water of the valley formed between it and these slopes; but, as the very lowest point of the whole horizon, as indicated by the spirit-level of the theodolite, lay in that direction, I determined to pursue that bearing, (10° W. of N.) through the open forest country that intervened.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

“Where are you coming to, fool?” was his shout as he brandished the spirit-level.

Through Russia 2003

Ossip exclaimed as he threatened him with the spirit-level.

Through Russia 2003