sideling

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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

In "Comorn", a quotation mark was added after "as he does our enemies", and "sideling" was changed to "sidling".

From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Jókai, Mór

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

Then even Duncan knew it, by its restless and sideling attitudes, which kept the upper part of its form in constant motion, while the animal itself appeared seated, to be a bear.

From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 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