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

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