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

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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

Jerry Swaim," Mrs. Darby cried, staring up at her niece in amazement, "do you mean to say you drove out alone over that sideling, slippery bluff road?

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill

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