Which preposition to use with squarest
Were it not for several high buildings in my sight I might fancy that I lived in one of the older squares of London.
A woman with a bare V of back facing them, and three plumes that dipped to her shoulders, turned square in her chair.
"I knew well enough that in course of time the Dwarf would get square with the Giant, no matter how long it might take and how much it might cost.
But Mr. Blake stood firm, and kept his ground like the English squares at Waterloo.
Percy Darrow waved his hand in an indescribably graceful and ironic gesture; then turned square on his heel and sauntered away to the north valley, out of the course of the lava.
12 December, 1786, Walpole, writing from Berkeley Square to the Countess of Upper Ossary, says: 'To-night ...
Mac flung up his head and squared for battle.
'Come and see me any morning in Cavendish Square before eight,' said he, 'and I will do what I can for you.'
But what insolent familiar durst have mated Thomas Coventry?whose person was a quadrate, his step massy and elephantine, his face square as the lion's, his gait peremptory and path-keeping, indivertible from his way as a moving column, the scarecrow of his inferiors, the brow-beater of equals and superiors, who made a solitude of children wherever he came, for they fled his insufferable presence, as they would have shunned an Elisha bear.
When his successor arrived he started for Montreal, and one afternoon sat under a tree in the square by the cathedral.
Here and there curtains, hanging from a slight frame of wood-work, veiled a small square from the eyes of all, except those who paid a nail for admittance.
"It looks gloomy and forsaken now; but it must have been a delightful house in the days when my ancestors could look out of the windows through the open end of the square across the fields and meadows to the heights of Hampstead and Highgate.
There was something square about his face, abetted by a parted-in-the-middle toupee of great craftsmanship, which revealed itself only in the jointure over the ears of its slightly lighter hair with the brown of his own.
The plan would have had only one weak point: the mummy would be known to have left Queen Square after the disappearance of John Bellingham, and suspicion might in the end have arisen.
The church is cruciform, two hundred and sixty-three feet long and one hundred and thirty-one wide; it consists of a great sanctuary with aisles ending in chapels, square without, apsidal within, wide transepts each having an eastern apsidal chapel, nave with aisles, and over the crossing a low tower which was once higher, having now a seventeenth century polygonal belfry.
Beyond them, across a darker square like a cavern-mouth, flitted the living phantoms of the street.
" Kate's cab had driven off, and the two girls walked through Lafayette Square into Pennsylvania Avenue to get another.
There was nothing of the animal but the head visible, and the bullet, true to its aim, struck it square between the eyes, and it fell dead.
The square around the fountain was brilliantly lighted, and venders of sherbet and kaïmak were ranged along the sidewalks.
" Adair's jaw grew squarer than ever.
A mile below the junction, the river runs square against a precipice some sixty feet in height, wheeling off at a right angle, and stretching away though a natural meadow on either hand, of hundreds of acres in extent.
Then Ruby Lee, not to be outdone by anybody, produced, from no one ever discovered where, a mother-of-pearl manicure set for the delight and mystification of the hero; and even Lazy Daisy went so far as to cut some red and yellow tissue-paper into squares under the delusion that some time, somehow, she would find the energy to roll these into spills for the lighting of Abe's pipe.
I would walk squares out of my way to keep from passing them."
After an hour of sight-seeing, I found myself in a square near the San Miguel Bridge.
And no monkey business, either of you, or I'll blow a hole square through you.