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
You mean, I suppose, the peaking creature, the married woman, with a sideling look, as if one cheek carried more bias than the other?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
Like Spanish beauty in its sable veil, They rustle sideling through the watery way, The wild, monotonous cry with which they hail Each other's passing dying far away.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
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 Margaret Hill McCarter
The chief went sideling off, crying, "Na-mik, na-mik!" at the same time imitated the motion of a dog—driving with his right hand, and pointed north with the other.
From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
