slantingly

Example Sentences

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They were close together, near a little clump of bushes, that sprang slantingly out from the surface of the cliff.

From Fenn Masterson's Discovery or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise by Chapman, Allen

They were careful not to cause the slightest commotion,—careful, too, to keep out of the narrow belts of light that fell slantingly from the fires above.

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne

Hold the point, not slantingly like a pencil, but as near as possible perpendicularly.

From A Treatise on Etching by Lalanne, Maxime

The breeze was on her beam, and much fresher with her than farther in the bay, so that the feluccas steered slantingly across her course as she made for the rock.

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various

The oxen lift their noses to heaven, with a strange and beseeching snake-like movement, and taking tiny little steps with their frail feet, move slantingly across the slope-face, between rocks and tree-roots.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)