slantingly
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There it lay coiled upon its scaly self, snugly ensconced in the fork below, with skin glittering brightly, and eyes gleaming fiercely in the golden sunlight that now fell slantingly against the tree.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
The breeze was on her beam, and much fresher with her than farther in the bay, so that the feluccas steered slantingly across her course as she made for the rock.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
The departing sun streamed slantingly across the so-far empty stage, where a few white grass stems shivered.
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
Her immense soft tresses of the jettiest hair had slantingly fallen over her as though a curtain were half drawn from before some saint enshrined.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
They could look slantingly up and see that the 300 sets of the "Bluebeard" scenery all were ablaze.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
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