aslope
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The Knight did stoop, And sat on further side aslope.
From Hudibras by Samuel Butler
"An Oblique Sphere hath the Axis of the World neither Direct nor Parallel to the Horizon, but lies aslope from it."
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
All broad and winding and aslope, All tempting with perfidious hope, All ending in despair.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams, which full, scarcely aslope, upon my head and almost make the water bubble and smoke in the trough under my nose.
From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The old tiara keeps itself aslope Upon his steady brows which, all the same, Bend mildly to permit the people’s hope?
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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