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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 Happy Days by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

It is what the river-men call a "slue channel"; and we had to take frequent soundings to follow it.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins

Sometimes a single missile would slue its way in through everything and end with a sob against the inside wall.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

What he next felt against his knee was the impact of a half-shove, half-blow, brisk enough to slue him around.

From The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Ten-Gallon slued in his saddle, slouching over confidentially.

From Claim Number One by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

There he stood—the man with the sluing walk!

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

In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing, To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing, Absorbing all to myself and for this song.

From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

As we looked, suddenly an armoured automobile appeared around the corner of the Mikhailovsky, its guns sluing this way and that.

From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

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