aslope

Example Sentences

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

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James

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

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

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

Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.

From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)