profilewise

Updated: May 15, 2025

A great trunk-line had swallowed the playground, sliced away the schoolroom, and pared off the corner of the house: which, thus curtailed of its proportions, presented itself, in a green stage of stucco, profilewise towards the road, like a forlorn flat-iron without a handle, standing on end. It seems as if our schools were doomed to be the sport of change.

Charles Dickens - Reprinted Pieces