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
At last, with great striving, methought I at first did get in my head, and after that, by a sideling striving, my shoulders and my whole body.
From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James
Then they lashed together many sad strokes, and traced and traversed now backward, now sideling, hurtling together like two boars, and that same time they fell both grovelling to the earth.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
That's why you went skidding on that sideling bluff road to-day; that and the fact that she brought you up to have your own way about everything.
From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill
Or dost thou sideling go, and would'st not be Suspected?
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
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