diagonally-running

Updated: May 1, 2025

Desmond reckoned that, if the pipe would hold, by getting out of the window and hanging on to the sill, he might, by a pendulum-like motion, gain sufficient impulse to swing his legs across the diagonally-running pipe, then transfer his hands and so slide down to the outhouse roof. He wasted no time in debating the chances of the pipe collapsing under his weight.

Valentine Williams - Okewood of the Secret Service