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 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 James Fenimore Cooper
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
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
"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 Robert Bloomfield
