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副詞

logwise (not comparable)

1. In the manner of a log of wood.
   • 1879, Robert Browning, “Halbert and Hob”, in Dramatic Idyls‎, pages 51—52:

     Still the old man stood mute. So, logwise,—down to floor / Pulled from his fireside place, dragged on from hearth to door,— / Was he pushed, a very log, staircase along, until / A certain turn in the steps was reached, a yard from the house-door-sill.

   • (Can we date this quote by Rudyard Kipling, The Cursing of Stephen and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     And he, the churl, / Shrank as the beetle shrinks beneath the pin / When village children stab him in their sport, / And, logwise, rolled before the charger's feet; And Stephen came to his own Court again.