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We were trying to get up a slue, or back channel, by a short cut, and the stern-wheel never spun twice in the same direction.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

Ye haue heard how the Danes slue Osrike and Ella kings of Northumberland.

From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

Then with a violent contortion you slue your body round and serve, whereupon your opponent perceives that you ARE playing, and that it is just one more ordinary fault into the wrong court.

From The Holiday Round by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

His left leg seemed to slue about queerly just before it touched the floor.

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner

But the hot wind sprang up and blew fiercely, and we lay off and on all day, until it was calm enough to tow her back to the slue.

From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes

Our pants were all wet from crossing "slues" and watercourses during the night, and we were too tired to sit up and dry them out before going to sleep.

From The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion by Samuel A. Swiggett

There were the narrow slues, the crowding shoals, the blind turns of Nantucket Sound, dreaded in all weathers, but a mariner's horror in a fog.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day

My head slues round on my neck, Music rolls, but not from the organ, Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.

From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Christmas trees were still under drastic Bolshevik ban as Christmas 1935 came to Russia, but just before New Year's Day the Kremlin's policy slued completely around.

From Time Magazine Archive

The car slued into a line of coffins, knocking one over, and finally rolled to a halt, after coming within ten feet of French Defense Minister Charles Hernu.

From Time Magazine Archive

On early runs over the bumpy, damp salt flats at Bonneville, Utah, the long, low car had slued into stomach-stopping skids.

From Time Magazine Archive

A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then they followed his horse-tracks till late the second day, and found that the horse had slued round and was making for home again with nobody on him.

From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood

All the morning the gunners followed those orders blindly, sluing the hot gun-muzzles a fraction this way or that, making minute adjustments on sights and range drums and shell fuses.

From Between the Lines by Boyd Cable

There was no sudden sluing of the needle, due to an amateurish device which Cleigh himself had constructed.

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner

We dashed sluing away down the country road, and then I turned to look at my old friend.

From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Alice Brown

The tragic beauty of his face and the pitiable, sluing, lurching stride!

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner

With a sluing lurch to his stride he started off down the street, into the lashing rain.

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner