aslope

Example Sentences

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A little farther there are evolutions to perform as we grasp a post that the sinking of the ground has set aslope across the middle of the fairway.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

"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 Gilbert, William

Now from the western mountain's brow, Compass'd with clouds of various glow, The sun a broader orb displays, And shoots aslope his ruddy rays.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George

Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.

From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett