slantingly
Example Sentences
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This board was now set slantingly against the stockade, and a dozen warriors rushed upon it.
From Boys of The Fort Or, A Young Captain's Pluck by Bonehill, Ralph
The spokes are held slantingly outward until twenty-five rows of No. 5 oval or split reed are woven.
From Practical Basketry by Gill, Anna A.
To obtain the outward slanting effect point the spokes straight out towards the weaver, and, after weaving four rows turn and hold the spokes slantingly upward.
From Practical Basketry by Gill, Anna A.
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 Reid, Mayne
The oxen lift their noses to heaven, with a strange and beseeching snake-like movement, and taking tiny little steps with their frail feet, move slantingly across the slope-face, between rocks and tree-roots.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
