"Longways" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... off a strip of cotton, six inches long by an inch wide, from the bottom of his dress, went forward to the stream, and wetted it. When he came back, they squeezed the moisture from it, broke up a cartridge, rubbed the powder into the cotton, and then rolled it up longways. ...
— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty
... by a poisonous snake, the bite must be opened by a cut of a lancet or razor longways, and the stone applied within twenty-four hours. The stone then attaches itself firmly on the wound, and when it has done its office falls off; the cure is then complete. The stone must then be thrown into milk, whereupon it vomits ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
