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

Or dost thou sideling go, and would'st not be Suspected?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

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

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 they lashed together many sad strokes, and traced and traversed now backward, now sideling, hurtling together like two boars, and that same time they fell both grovelling to the earth.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir