What is "squares"

Usage examples of "squares".

These will give us the outlines of the squares lying between them and also guiding points that will enable us to draw as many more as we please.

Here the squares lie much more level, and the columns are nearly the same width, showing the advantage of a long distance.

Having formed the two squares, draw perspective circles in each, and divide their circumferences into twelve or whatever number of parts are needed.

But as these are freehand lines, it requires some taste and knowledge to draw them properly, and of course in a large drawing several more squares and circles might be added to aid the draughtsman.

I have made all the squares thus obtained in parallel perspective, but they do not represent the bases of columns arranged in circles, which should converge towards the centre, and I believe in some cases are modified in form to suit that design.

This will be the vanishing point for the sides of the small squares directed towards it.

It is easy to see how other squares on each side of these can be produced.

Divide it into squares of 1 foot, so that there will be 8 feet between each column or pilaster, supposing we make them to stand on a square foot.

The brigade had formed squares and blasted the German horsemen with volleys of musket-fire so that the cavalry milled about in confusion, men and horses dropping, until, bleeding and baulked, they were forced to retire.

The regimental bands played on, while in the squares the colours hung heavy in the humid and smoke-stained air.

The enemy cavalry was still in sight, and not so very far off, and so the infantry was forced to stay in their squares as prime targets for the heavy French cannon.

Surely his opponent had learned by now that cavalry could achieve nothing against the stalwart squares which had been reinforced with the newly arrived guns?

The horses would swerve round the square, receiving yet more fire from its flanks, and Kellerman had already lost too many men to the British squares this day.

The colour party, encumbered by the heavy squares of silk, were the slowest.

The cavalry, after all, would force the British infantry to form squares which made wonderful targets for gunners and infantrymen, but the cavalry could not hope to destroy the squares by itself.