sideling

Example Sentences

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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

"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

"As they stood hallooing back to back,   "We, lightly as a feather, "Went sideling round, and in a crack   "Had pinn'd their coats together.

From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Bloomfield, Robert

At last, with great striving, methought I at first did get in my head, and after that, by a sideling striving, my shoulders and my whole body.

From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James

Then they lashed together many sad strokes, and traced and traversed now backward, now sideling, hurtling together like two boars, and that same time they fell both grovelling to the earth.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir