“The quahog is a thick-shelled, roundish mollusk with a distinctly heart-shaped outline when looked at endwise.”

“Things have been going from bad to worse with our four poor gods, but what has principally knocked them endways is machinery.”

“I'll keep the letter, for it would knock you endways if it was seen, and I'll make it all right with the editor.”

“The jail was made of wood and lined with heavy timbers set endways and driven full of nails, so that a mouse could not have escaped.”