aslant

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For me, his most fascinating and haunting piece is the 1927 "impression" for small orchestra, There Is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2011

Aslant against the hard implacable weather and the rough wind, he was no more to be driven back than hurried forward, but held on like an advancing Destiny.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

See! the sun smites With sea-drawn lights The turned wing of a gull that glows Aslant the violet, the profound Dome of the mid-June heights.

From Miscellany of Poetry 1919 by Seymour, W. Kean

Cold o'er the fleckered clouds the morning broke Aslant ere from his slumbers he awoke; 130 Still as he sat, nor yet had left the place, The first dim light fell on his pallid face.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

Aslant, as a path running slosh across a field.

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by Walter, James Conway