aslope
Americanadverb
adjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of aslope
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at a- 1, slope
Example Sentences
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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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Now from the western mountain's brow, Compass'd with clouds of various glow, The sun a broader orb displays, And shoots aslope his ruddy rays.
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
Now, from the western mountain’s brow, Compassed with clouds of various glow, The sun a broader orb displays, And shoots aslope his ruddy rays.
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie
Summer has come, healthy and free, Whence the brown wood is aslope; The slender nimble deer leap, And the path of seals is smooth.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
The old tiara keeps itself aslope Upon his steady brows which, all the same, Bend mildly to permit the people’s hope?
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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