slue

Example Sentences

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Sometimes a single missile would slue its way in through everything and end with a sob against the inside wall.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)

There was danger also that the tow-line might slue both men into the icy waters and upset the boat.

From Dan Merrithew by McFall, J. V.

Wherevpon no small grudge rose betwixt those that so slue him, and the said lord Flemings friends.

From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Holinshed, Raphael

Behind, my bay gelding gallops with me, In a steaming sweat, it is fine to see That coach, all claret, and gold, and blue, Hop about and slue.

From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Lowell, Amy

His left leg seemed to slue about queerly just before it touched the floor.

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)