3. There is "less perpendicularity of features in the front-a larger proportion of face to head-a broader flatter face-a shorter wider nose, often clubbed at the end, and furnished with round nostrils."
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Hence it appears that the exterior angle varies much; nevertheless in the close similarity in form between the sections of Keeling atoll and of the atolls in the Low Archipelago, in the general steepness of the reefs of the Maldiva and Chagos atolls, and in the perpendicularity of those rising out of water always tranquil, we may discern the effects of uniform laws; but from the complex action of the surf and currents, on the growing powers of the coral and on the deposition of sediment, we can by no means follow out all the results.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles
By degrees the back of the sage stiffened into perpendicularity, and he sat for a few moments erect on his seat of honour, apparently in listening deliberation.
"Paul Clifford, Volume 6."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton