sideling

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

Finally Matvei Nikitich arrived, and the usher, a long-necked and lean man, with a sideling gait and protruding lower lip, entered the jury-room.

From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count

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 Sir Walter Scott

This was an awkward position in which to command his footing along a sideling, icy path.

From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge

"Cap'm tell Nick, now, what he mean by building such house, out here, among ole beaver bones?" he said, sideling up nearer to his employer, and gazing with some curiosity into his face.

From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper