aslope
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Now, from the western mountain’s brow, Compassed with clouds of various glow, The sun a broader orb displays, And shoots aslope his ruddy rays.
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie
High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams, which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my head, and almost make the water bubble and smoke, in the trough under my nose.
From A Rill from the Town Pump by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 Fitzwater Wray
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
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