It was just as true at the dawn of creation that the square described on the hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle is equal to the square described on the other two sides, as it was when Pythagoras enunciated the theorem.
"The Jericho Road"
W. Bion Adkins
Rick took the man's legs and pulled them backward so that the shadow's whole weight was against his hands, his outstretched body forming the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin
I fell in a slanting direction, your highness, describing the hypotenuse between the base and perpendicular, created by the force of the wind, and the attraction of gravitation.
"The Pacha of Many Tales"
Captain Frederick Marryat