Trust Exercise
_" jarzyl screamed her friend's name in panic, but then atlas pulled up and did a vertical loop, spinning fully over in an aerobatic move before returning to level flight.
The Undercity of New Cydonia
The center of the city had a few though, though it was often hard to tell if buildings were all one vertical skyscraper, or a dense amount of individual buildings floated vertically and tethered to the island (the existence of which was very immediately clear
Aid and Comfort – teaser
That didn't sound good._ he boosted the vertical thrusters to get it back up, and the sensation of the craft floating freely was reassuring.
Love and Lycanthropy Pt2 - Hunter and Hunted
Briefly he unhitched the long leash from her collar before tossing it up over the sturdy beam running vertically above the middle of their bed.
In The Spotlight
While waiting for the next egg to drop, the cheetah pulled herself up, reaching for the cross brace between the two vertical poles.
Descent Chapter 5
It was one of those test your strength type games with a large, vertical bar which a metal cylinder - an anvil, he thought it was called - would run up after the player hit one end of a plank.
Conflict Storm: Falcon Evacuation
Pushing his thumb up on the switch atop his flight stick, the vertical thrusters underneath burst to life.
Too Good
His pinball sliced a perfect vertical line down the middle of the machine, and all the lights flickered and dimmed alongside barely audible buzzing dialogue of main characters crying defeat.
The Filly (1/3)
As the centaur filly tried to roll them to ease the strain she found her arms stretched above her head, fastened to a vertical - though thankfully bark-free - log, her bare torso flush against the rough wood.
Nature Calls: John's Epiphany
The bark seemed to wrap around them in a textured spiral flow, instead of the expected vertical flow. a familiar wood creaking sound could be heard everywhere around the rover.
Space Junk
The shopkeeper was situating a rotisserie into the vertical stack of ovens, a hood drawn up over his head, although the fabric was sitting too high.
Service Foxes and You
A service fox’s natural vertical inclinations often leads many city-dwelling foxers to re-orient or change their living space to accommodate a vertical and horizontal environment for their animals.