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slantways

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Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice.

He looked slantways out of the corners of his eyes.

"What makes a kite go up slantways against, or on, the wind, which is the same thing in sailing?" continued Harry.

The speaker was even larger than the Galway man, and his face was made curious by a purple cut running slantways from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth.

The great forces of the French king, coming down slantways from the north and east, had had nearly four miles to march to his three.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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