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Meanings of diagonal direction in English

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Usage of diagonal direction in English
1
The sand gully opened towards the sea in a diagonal direction.
The Boy Slaves
2
I follow his tendency and shift to the diagonal direction.
Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan
3
On the contrary, he moved with his usual gait in a diagonal direction toward the stables.
Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges
4
These run to the extremity of a branch, and spring boldly down in a diagonal direction.
The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
5
The group of cloud-borne angels above also follows a diagonal direction parallel to the larger group.
Correggio / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of t...
6
The sandspit did not project perpendicularly from the line of the coast, but in a diagonal direction.
The Boy Slaves
7
At that moment the horsemen assumed form in the gloom and approached the house in a diagonal direction.
Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges
8
He lowered them again, just as slowly, but this time in a diagonal direction, forming a vee with his arms.
Shadowlight
9
He began to circle round the cone of the crater, but in a diagonal direction so as to facilitate our progress.
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
10
These great fronds have a mid-rib, and from this, on both sides, run veins in a diagonal direction to the edge.
The Forest Exiles: The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds ...
11
Even the broom leaning against the shelf near the door takes the same diagonal direction as the tiles of the right side.
Jean François Millet / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Po...
12
One descended in a diagonal direction, its wings half open but not moving, with a swiftness which seemed that of a fall.
Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies / A His...
13
Slowly, Kenton moved to the side, sloping his platform of sand just enough that he moved in a diagonal direction up the wall.
Arcanum Unbounded
14
The party crossed, in a diagonal direction, the mail-coach road from Crowland to Horsham, which was a very dusty one, and little used by pedestrians.
In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
15
The groove can get both deeper and wider and as it does so making the needle vary in two diagonal directions.
Wired
16
"After leaving here," said Basil, "I struck off through the woods in a line that led from the river, in a diagonal direction.
The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
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Diagonal direction through the time
Diagonal direction across language varieties
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