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
"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 Robert Bloomfield
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 Margaret Hill McCarter
"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 James Fenimore Cooper
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 Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
