aslope

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All broad and winding and aslope, All tempting with perfidious hope, All ending in despair.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

A little farther there are evolutions to perform as we grasp a post that the sinking of the ground has set aslope across the middle of the fairway.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams, which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my head, and almost make the water bubble and smoke, in the trough under my nose.

From A Rill from the Town Pump by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Knight did stoop, And sat on further side aslope.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

"An Oblique Sphere hath the Axis of the World neither Direct nor Parallel to the Horizon, but lies aslope from it."

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William