aslope
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Summer has come, healthy and free, Whence the brown wood is aslope; The slender nimble deer leap, And the path of seals is smooth.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
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
Yonder riband of sunshine aslope on the wall, If you eye it a minute 'll have the same look: So kind! and so merciful!
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
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
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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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