sideling
Example Sentences
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There was something about her voice that glistened, that refracted off an up-tempo number like a sudden shot of sun or shone off a ballad like a sideling beam of moonlight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally Matvei Nikitich arrived, and the usher, a long-necked and lean man, with a sideling gait and protruding lower lip, entered the jury-room.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count
"Cap'm tell Nick, now, what he mean by building such house, out here, among ole beaver bones?" he said, sideling up nearer to his employer, and gazing with some curiosity into his face.
From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper
Page 148 stumblingblocks changed to stumbling blocks Page 150 Then sideling changed to Then sidling Page 153 deep vexation changed to deep vexation.
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Susanna Moodie
"You have been unfortunate, Doctor, but—" "Unfortunate!" echoed the little man, sideling nigher to his companion, and producing his tablets with an air in which exultation struggled, strangely, with an affectation of self-abasement.
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
