aslope

Example Sentences

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The old tiara keeps itself aslope Upon his steady brows which, all the same, Bend mildly to permit the people’s hope?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A little farther there are evolutions to perform as we grasp a post that the sinking of the ground has set aslope across the middle of the fairway.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

"An Oblique Sphere hath the Axis of the World neither Direct nor Parallel to the Horizon, but lies aslope from it."

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

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

Summer has come, healthy and free, Whence the brown wood is aslope; The slender nimble deer leap, And the path of seals is smooth.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various