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

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

"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

"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 Cooper, James Fenimore

Jerry Swaim," Mrs. Darby cried, staring up at her niece in amazement, "do you mean to say you drove out alone over that sideling, slippery bluff road?

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill