1852 R. S. Surtees iv. xx. 103 You perpendicular-looking Puseyite pig-jobber!
1859 E. L. Follet ii. i. 20 A stiff, perpendicular looking man enters. He has on a black coat, a white cravat, and green spectacles, and carries a blue cotton umbrella in one hand, and a red book in the other.