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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Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
From The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
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
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
All broad and winding and aslope, All tempting with perfidious hope, All ending in despair.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
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