In the meantime he studied the blank rectangle of the window.

The task acre was commonly not a square of 210 feet, but a rectangle 300 feet long and 150 feet broad, divided into square halves and rectangular quarters, and further divisible into "compasses" five feet wide and 150 feet long, making one sixtieth of an acre.

Then one after another he set up six of the tall glass jars in a row, and showed how, alternating with the other six bottles turned upside down, the thick belly of one accommodating itself to the thin neck of the other, the twelve made a very decent rectangle of glass.

The dim violet rectangle of a window appeared in the darkness, the figure of the woman in vague silhouette against it.

A square is an equilateral rectangle.

The different lodes were laid off in mathematically exact rectangles, running in many directions.

No father to scold and plead; no much-superior sister to torment her with reproaches; no peering through grated windows at one little rectangle of outside sunshine.

And, sure enough, presently the faintest shadow of an outline encroached on the solid rectangle of faint light.

From these fixed lines the land is surveyed and marked off into rectangles of six miles square, each thus containing thirty-six square miles.

The dim violet rectangle of a window appeared in the darkness, the figure of the woman in vague silhouette against it.