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
After many hard treks through the broken foothills, with their rocky sideling slopes and boulder-strewn torrent beds, at last the Berg itself was reached.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir
"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 Cooper, James Fenimore
"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 Cooper, James Fenimore
That's why you went skidding on that sideling bluff road to-day; that and the fact that she brought you up to have your own way about everything.
From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill
