endways

We were placed in two ranks, "endways," in such a manner that the heads of the front-rank men rested between the feet of their respective

The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

Large blocks of stone, shaped to fit the upper surface of the rock, were laid upon it, generally endways, that is, with their smallest surface outwards, their length forming the thickness of the wall, which was sometimes as much as fifteen or twenty feet. [

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

What had happened was that a cannon shot had hit the go-down roof just as the rockets went off, and a falling slat had knocked me endways; when I came to the first thing I saw was the firing-frame in ruins, with a beam across it, and I remember thinking, ah well, no more Guy Fawkes night until next year.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

The shock of it knocked my wits endways - but only for a moment.

Fiancée 2010

Taking one endways in its bill and keeping it firm by a pressure of the tongue, it cuts a transverse notch by a lateral sawing motion of the sharp-edged lower mandible.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

They turned it endways up with the bedsteads and mattresses.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

They turned it endways up with the bedsteads and mattresses.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

The shock of it knocked my wits endways — but only for a moment.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

The shock of it knocked my wits endways - but only for a moment.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

The marble flags I ran on tilted endways, flinging me down on hands and knees.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958