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

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

Then they lashed together many sad strokes, and traced and traversed now backward, now sideling, hurtling together like two boars, and that same time they fell both grovelling to the earth.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Finally Matvei Nikitich arrived, and the usher, a long-necked and lean man, with a sideling gait and protruding lower lip, entered the jury-room.

From The Awakening The Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

After many hard treks through the broken foothills, with their rocky sideling slopes and boulder-strewn torrent beds, at last the Berg itself was reached.

From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir