The Chanter and the School-boys took up the threshing-floor; the female mother-church-people stood on the one sheaves-loft, the Schadeck womankind on the other; and their husbands clustered pyramidically, like groschen and farthing-gallery men; about the barn-stairs; and far up on the straw-loft, mixed souls stood listening.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
They leapt pyramidically, they heaved up horribly under her; she hardly obeyed her helm, and even in that gale her canvas flapped in the troughs.
"Hills and the Sea"
H. Belloc
And yet this should hardly have been so, since the theory of the chimney was, that it pyramidically diminished as it ascended.
"I and My Chimney"
Herman Melville