sideling

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There was something about her voice that glistened, that refracted off an up-tempo number like a sudden shot of sun or shone off a ballad like a sideling beam of moonlight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Page 148 stumblingblocks changed to stumbling blocks Page 150 Then sideling changed to Then sidling Page 153 deep vexation changed to deep vexation.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna

That's why you went skidding on that sideling bluff road to-day; that and the fact that she brought you up to have your own way about everything.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill

"His lordship's honour," said the Highland servant sideling up to Lord Menteith, and speaking in a very low tone, "his lordship manna speak to Allan even now, for the cloud is upon his mind."

From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir

You mean, I suppose, the peaking creature, the married woman, with a sideling look, as if one cheek carried more bias than the other?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir