Even as we looked about us in bewilderment, the portly facade of Ludwig the Red moved out of alignment with a heart-rending squeak and a long thin streak of black appeared at the inner edge of the frame, growing wider,- and blacker if anything,-before our startled eyes.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
If the blowing of the bulb be quickly and accurately done, it may usually be completed before the glass is quite set, and the alignment of the two tubes may then be rectified while looking straight through the bore of the tube.
"Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing"
Francis C. Frary
Careful alignment by the eye would hardly detect that Sirius was moving in two, or even in three or in four centuries.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball