Each fresh mound of earth was marked by a vertical wooden slat.
Transformations show a scene made up of vertical slats.
One crooked arm caught itself in the angle between a vertical slat and slanting cross-beam.
His own weight began dragging his arm from its hold upon the vertical slat.
It didn't last, and the 1980 Electra went back to its earlier 1977 roots, but with a new grille featuring vertical slats.
The direction of the new station's battens was horizontal; the original station had had vertical slats.
Moving from space to space between the vertical slats so that he wouldn't have to take his eyes off her.
It was patterned with a close-set series of vertical slats.
Once again it reached the same vertical slat and leaped away.
"Honey," she said, crouching to peer at him through the vertical slats of the playpen, "what're you doing?"