But his eyes scrutinized with fierce eagerness the immense webs of steel posts and diagonals that ran up on either side, under the grand vertical curves of the top-chords, almost to the peaks of the cantilever towers.
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet
Similarly, to say that five diagonals make exactly seven sides does not involve an error of the 84th part of the diagonal.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan
Bright diagonals made a living network on the overhead dark.
"Waiting for Daylight"
Henry Major Tomlinson