slantingly

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The rough bricks of the chimney, which breaks slantingly through the floor near the center of the room, are not concealed.

From Remodeled Farmhouses by Northend, Mary H.

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 Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

He dived slantingly, and swam under water for a long way.

From Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway by Emerson, Alice B.

Tournay altered their course and steered the boat slantingly across the current.

From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by Sage, William

Hold the spokes slantingly inward and weave seventeen rows of No. 5 oval reed.

From Practical Basketry by Gill, Anna A.