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

"You have been unfortunate, Doctor, but—" "Unfortunate!" echoed the little man, sideling nigher to his companion, and producing his tablets with an air in which exultation struggled, strangely, with an affectation of self-abasement.

From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore

That's why you went skidding on that sideling bluff road to-day; that and the fact that she brought you up to have your own way about everything.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill

The chief went sideling off, crying, "Na-mik, na-mik!" at the same time imitated the motion of a dog—driving with his right hand, and pointed north with the other.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

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