In most American cities, the avenues are diagonal streets or openings connecting distant points of the cities, but this definition loses most of its force when applied to European cities, as they are not built square or rectangular.

Company C. Red field, white diagonals.

Company D. Red field, blue diagonals.

Company G. White field, red diagonals.

Company H. White field, blue diagonals.

Company L. Blue field, red diagonals.

Company M. Blue field, white diagonals.

The four corner guy ropes are then placed over the lower notches of the large pins driven in prolongation of the diagonals at such distance as to hold the walls and end of the tent vertical and smooth when the guy ropes are drawn taut.

When they can make squares well, they can be shown how to cross them with diagonals, and make circles inside of the squares, and outside of them, and encouraged to draw on the other side of the slate, from their own fancy, or from objects.

He drew diagonals this way and that across the advertisement.

On the contrary, he moved with his usual gait in a diagonal direction toward the stables.

There is such a lens fitted up in the shops, with the title of optical pillar machine, or diagonal mirror, and the print to be viewed is laid upon a table beyond the stand of the lens, and its reflection in a mirror supported diagonally over it, is viewed through the lens.

Diagonal bond is hardly better.

French cross bond, otherwise diagonal bond (liaison en croix), is English bond, but with the peculiarity that in every fourth course one header is made use of in the stretcher course at the quoin.

The result is that the stretchers break joint with each other, and all the joints range themselves in diagonal lines, and if in any part of the work headers of a different brick are introduced, the appearance of a cross is at once brought out; and even without this the diagonal arrangement of joints is very perceptible and pleasing.

The result is that the stretchers break joint with each other, and all the joints range themselves in diagonal lines, and if in any part of the work headers of a different brick are introduced, the appearance of a cross is at once brought out; and even without this the diagonal arrangement of joints is very perceptible and pleasing.

It seems as if the parental traits at one time showed separate, at another blended,that occasionally the force of two natures is represented in the derivative one by a diagonal of greater value than either original line of living movement,that sometimes there is a loss of vitality hardly to be accounted for, and again a forward impulse of variable intensity in some new and unforeseen direction.

The spandrels are formed of uprights and diagonals, the former being made of four angle-irons, and the latter of one angle-iron.

Each pair of arches, longitudinal girders and uprights, is transversely 3 meters (9 ft. 10 in.) from center to center, and is connected by cross and diagonal bracing.

The details show the system of cross and diagonal bracing.

Following a diagonal from the bottom to the top and from left to right, we meet the most expressive form of the species, whether eccentric, normal or concentric, marked by the figures 1-I, 3-III, 2-II, and by the abbreviations Ecc.-ecc.

It is curious to remark how upon this diagonal the organic manifestations corresponding to the soul, that is to love, are found in the midst, to link the expressive forms of life and mind.

Flags were everywherered flags, with diagonal crosses marked by stars.

By cutting the body in half, and then dividing the half in a diagonal direction, he obtained a figurenamely, a quarter of the cubein which, he observed, the whole strength or power of resistance of the entire body resided; and he showed the application of these sections of the cube to the purposes of paving by wood."

The arched girders are connected together, in the central portion, by a system of diagonal bracing, as is shown on Figs. 2 and 7.