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

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

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

"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

"As they stood hallooing back to back,   "We, lightly as a feather, "Went sideling round, and in a crack   "Had pinn'd their coats together.

From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Bloomfield, Robert