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

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

"His lordship's honour," said the Highland servant sideling up to Lord Menteith, and speaking in a very low tone, "his lordship manna speak to Allan even now, for the cloud is upon his mind."

From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir

In "Comorn", a quotation mark was added after "as he does our enemies", and "sideling" was changed to "sidling".

From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Jókai, Mór

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