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

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 Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

At last, with great striving, methought I at first did get in my head, and after that, by a sideling striving, my shoulders and my whole body.

From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James

"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

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