aslope

Example Sentences

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High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams, which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my head, and almost make the water bubble and smoke, in the trough under my nose.

From A Rill from the Town Pump by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Now from the western mountain's brow, Compass'd with clouds of various glow, The sun a broader orb displays, And shoots aslope his ruddy rays.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George

All broad and winding and aslope, All tempting with perfidious hope, All ending in despair.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams, which full, scarcely aslope, upon my head and almost make the water bubble and smoke in the trough under my nose.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Knight did stoop, And sat on further side aslope.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel