sidelong

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This month’s celebration will be hosted by the photographer John Edmonds, whose exhibition, “A Sidelong Glance,” features incisive portraits of Black Americans with traditional cultural objects, on view at the museum through Sept. 26.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

Sad, pathetic is their stare, Yet it hath impatience too, And, methinks at times they cast Sidelong glances at the witch.

From Atta Troll by Heine, Heinrich

Then when I was distraught And could not speak, Sidelong, full on my cheek, What should that reckless zephyr fling But the wild touch of thy dye-dusty wing!

From A Boy's Will by Frost, Robert

I know her ways, her slightest wink, So well; and to my hand she'll come, Sidelong, for food or a caress, Just like a loving human thing.

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George

Sidelong, I saw the orchestra leader's baton go up.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by MacGowan, Alice