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Updated: May 1, 2025
With the exception of Japetus, they revolve round him in the plane of his rings, and when these are seen edgewise, appear to run along it like beads on a string. "Uranus, the next planet visible, is a pale star of the sixth magnitude, 1,770 million miles from the sun, and completes his round in 84 years.
It might be supposed that it was a nebulous disk seen edgewise, but for the fact that at the largest star involved in its course it bends sharply about 10° out of its former direction, and for the additional fact that it seems to take its origin from a curved offshoot of the intricate nebulous mass surrounding Maia.
This singular nest is built of clay, and is as hard as stone pedra; while it is the shape of the mandioca oven forno in which the country people prepare their farina. It is about a foot in diameter, and stands edgewise upon the branch or crotch of a tree. Among the smaller birds are bright tanagers, and a species resembling the canary.
'Squire, if you warn't so fast, I'd try to get a word in edgewise for Hornblower, said I. But, before the Squire had time to retort, Hornblower himself took up the weapon. 'Great Jehu e! Squire, he ejaculated, 'you know no more about the law than Dobbin Dobson's donkey ye hain't worth two cents! Hornblower's face blazed with red rage, and the Squire got himself all on his pins.
Then, smiling more than ever, he stooped, picked up his buckets, went on a few yards to where there was an opening into the next row, turned himself edgewise, and passed through with his buckets swung round, and was about to pass through into another green arcade, but stopped, smiling still, and put down his load once more with a louder rattle of the handles, while clank clank went the engine and whish whish and sputter the cloud of spray among the leaves.
Some of the paper people were on the street, walking along or congregated in groups and talking together; but as soon as they saw the strangers they all fluttered into the houses as fast as they could go, so as to be out of danger. "Excuse me if I go edgewise," remarked the Captain as they came to a slight hill. "I can get along faster that way and not flutter so much."
He drags himself a few steps, stops, sniffs, and refuses to go further. The man calls him again, with an oath and a threat. Then, what does that yellow dog do? He crawls edgewise towards the door, crouching himself against the bunk till he's flatter than a knife blade; then, half way, he stops.
Across this archway hung a pair of dark-green curtains, making a mystery of all within the arch except the spasmodic scratching of a quill pen. Here was grouped a chaotic assemblage of articles mainly old framed prints and paintings leaning edgewise against the wall, like roofing slates in a builder's yard.
Carey went up at once, and found that Jackum was just squeezing himself edgewise beneath the hinged opening of the saloon skylight. He grinned with satisfaction. "Find doc-tor," he said, fumbling in his girdle. "Big Dan shoot shoot." "Not killed mumkull?" whispered Carey, in a voice full of the anguish he felt. "No, no, no. Baal mumkull. Big Dan shoot. Doctor broke."
"An invitation to Grey-Court is worth two of the Shrubberies. My mother knows only the right kind of people, while Mr. Pierce " "Is to be our host," interrupted Peter, but with no shade of correction in his voice. "Yes," laughed Watts, "and he is a host. He'll not let any one else get a word in edgewise. You are just the kind of talker he'll like.
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