slantingly
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The words had hardly left Trevannion’s lips before the snake was seen crawling along the lliana, and the next moment transferring its body to a branch which grew slantingly from the main trunk.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
While weaving, the spokes should be held slantingly outward.
From Practical Basketry by Anna A. Gill
Casting my eyes upward, I beheld a long object, enveloped in native cloth and tappa, hanging slantingly across a beam, like a fantoccino, just before throwing a summerset on the slack-wire!
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
They were close together, near a little clump of bushes, that sprang slantingly out from the surface of the cliff.
From Fenn Masterson's Discovery or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise by Allen Chapman
We went slantingly, not fighting the current too hard, but gliding easily, and avoiding the shallows where we could hear the current roar over the sand and pebbles.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
