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
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 McCarter, Margaret Hill
At last, with great striving, methought I at first did get in my head, and after that, by a sideling striving, my shoulders and my whole body.
From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James
She eagerly placed the precious baubles in her ears, and, though as ugly as the Witch of Endor, went off with a sideling gait and coquettish air, as though she had been a perfect Semiramis.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
Page 148 stumblingblocks changed to stumbling blocks Page 150 Then sideling changed to Then sidling Page 153 deep vexation changed to deep vexation.
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna
