sideling
Example Sentences
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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
"You have been unfortunate, Doctor, but—" "Unfortunate!" echoed the little man, sideling nigher to his companion, and producing his tablets with an air in which exultation struggled, strangely, with an affectation of self-abasement.
From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore
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
You mean, I suppose, the peaking creature, the married woman, with a sideling look, as if one cheek carried more bias than the other?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
"Cap'm tell Nick, now, what he mean by building such house, out here, among ole beaver bones?" he said, sideling up nearer to his employer, and gazing with some curiosity into his face.
From Wyandotte by Cooper, James Fenimore
