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
Any one else would have waited: he pulled out into the rough sideling track on the slope below, to pass us.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir
"As they stood hallooing back to back, "We, lightly as a feather, "Went sideling round, and in a crack "Had pinn'd their coats together.
From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Bloomfield, Robert
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
This was an awkward position in which to command his footing along a sideling, icy path.
From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell
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