At Rainham we have a church, however, dedicated in honour of St Margaret, parts of which date from the thirteenth century, though in the main it is a Perpendicular building. "England of My Heart--Spring" by Edward Hutton

In going up such places the saddle girths were severely tried, but the mane kept one from slipping down one's perpendicular animal. "Six Months at the Cape" by R.M. Ballantyne

He had stooped with a frown: he returned to the perpendicular with a smile that was positively winning. "The Adventures of Sally" by P. G. Wodehouse