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
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But, go sideling or go straight, Uncas had seen the movement, and their trail led us on to the broken bush.
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore
Any one else would have waited: he pulled out into the rough sideling track on the slope below, to pass us.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir
Like Spanish beauty in its sable veil, They rustle sideling through the watery way, The wild, monotonous cry with which they hail Each other's passing dying far away.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
Indeed, Mr. Patrick the reader will easily detect, had the crude idea of right in his head; but, unfortunately, he could only get it out in these simple and sideling insinuations.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy