sideling
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of 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
Finally Matvei Nikitich arrived, and the usher, a long-necked and lean man, with a sideling gait and protruding lower lip, entered the jury-room.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
But, go sideling or go straight, Uncas had seen the movement, and their trail led us on to the broken bush.
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore
Then even Duncan knew it, by its restless and sideling attitudes, which kept the upper part of its form in constant motion, while the animal itself appeared seated, to be a bear.
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore
The chief went sideling off, crying, "Na-mik, na-mik!" at the same time imitated the motion of a dog—driving with his right hand, and pointed north with the other.
From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell
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