In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] vocabulary

"[...] You shan't go on one step without committing an assault upon me." And he drew himself up, four-square, as if for battle.

Grant Allen. The British Barbarians

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(for, like all artists, they never seek to realise the value of those dreams, or to enclose them in the four-square frame of everyday life),

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]