| 单词 | slantwise |
| 例句 | She clutched at her heart with one hand, leaned against the door, and seemed not to notice how the candle in her other hand had tipped slantwise in its silver holder. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She came slantwise across the square, and he dashed to meet her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The goblin looked slantwise at Harry, and the lightning scar on Harry’s forehead prickled, but he ignored it, refusing to acknowledge its pain or its invitation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z April rain falls slantwise through the billboard’s spotlights and Volkheimer’s television flickers blue and he ducks habitually as he passes through the doorway between his kitchen and the main room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sleet drummed slantwise at the great rigid envelope of the craft, making a noise that almost drowned the clatter and howl of the straining engines, and obscuring the view of the ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Against the descending sun the battlements were dark and clean- lined, while to the east, where the uninhibited light poured slantwise, the strange landscape shouted with color. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They were too large to fit into the bed of the wagon, so we perched them slantwise, tilting down into the middle. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That he is falling and not flying is clear from his position, which is almost upside-down, slantwise to the few clouds; nevertheless he appears calm. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A saxophone solo by Lehman, 44, adds textures that he’s honed on his alto instrument: slantwise methods that he developed in formal training and time on the New York scene. An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z I can see it all now,—the slantwise rain Of light through the leaves,The sundown's blaze on her window-pane, The bloom of her roses under the eaves. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z Western readers may find the allusions frustratingly indirect, but Kadare has accustomed himself to telling his tales slantwise, even in a post-totalitarian era where anything goes. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Weary of fiction, he expounds on whatever is on his mind, and the very long novel becomes a succession of slantwise essays about gender, sex, and power. Sex and Power in “The Catholic School” 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z He gave a slantwise smile, looking out of the corner of his eye. Giants’ Ace Is the Product of Rural North Carolina and a Proud Father 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Then, setting his boxes bottom upward, he perched each one slantwise upon one of his sticks, and stretched the strings away to the hummock's edge. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z My men tried it gingerly, and gave back, and tried it again in another place and finally, just as Mademoiselle and Monsieur came up to them, floundered through and sprang slantwise up the farther bank. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Blocking the Great Northern completely, a double-header stood slantwise, sagging where it had torn up the ground ripping out a cross-section of the interlocking rails. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Ranged in line, they sat immovable on magnificent horses, holding their rifles slantwise across their saddles. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z Air he must have, and he makes slantwise for the surface. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Purun Chand bowed his obedience to the high priest; and then the darkness came, and with it the stars, and the thin scimitar of the young moon set slantwise in the sky. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z The westering sun, of which the beams just topped the farther side of the quadrangle, fell slantwise on their armour, and heightened their exaggerated and restless movements. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z It ran a deep seam slantwise down the lower half of the face. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Stafford looked slantwise up the aisle, and then with a look that was tell-tale in his eyes as he cast them toward Her, where she was sitting three or four seats away. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z The head hits the ground slantwise, and the body slides and wriggles after it much like a fleeing snake. Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls 2011-09-11T02:00:11.207Z "There!" said Frau Dosch again, picking up the bundle and laying it slantwise on Ingeborg's breast and addressing her very loudly. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z The site made a natural outdoor parlour: a yew tree, grown slantwise with the prevailing wind, formed an umbrella overhead. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z I had the south window, kind of slantwise facing the road, and about twenty foot from it, where it passed the store. Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders 2011-04-09T02:00:09.887Z Grant was lying slantwise across David's bed, with David draped across him. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z In hors-d'oeuvre.—Peel the cucumbers, cut them in slices slantwise, and salt them for two or three hours. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z That was the way Alan always thought of their performance when he saw them circling slantwise under the sun. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z The mattress reared up, the coverings billowed, the pillow, struck slantwise, was about to fall. Woman Head slantwise up stream, major, lean a little forward, so as to sink your horse's nose nearer to the water, he swims all the better for it. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Big drops of rain, driven slantwise by gusts of wind, were making the passers-by run hastily to cover. John Marsh's Millions It sang, quivering on its way, striking the mighty beast slantwise in the ribs and sinking deep. The White Shield The clouds are gone by this time; the rising moon shoots slantwise through a few thin, dissolving folds, and brings out ripples of gold and silver on the long seas. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks The arrangement, too, by which the fine doorway rises into a window of unmodified pattern seems a rather awkward compromise, especially as the line of the staircase roof cuts slantwise across the lights. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The sun was coming slantwise over the roofs; Hollis saw that the strip of shade in front of the Kicker building had grown to wide proportions. The Coming of the Law A gleam of sunshine in the afternoon, then wild rain driven slantwise by the gusts; and now, at five o'clock, no wind at all, but a straight, soaking downpour. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur The flowers are then put in slantwise, beginning at the ends of the basket, and working towards the middle, until the space is all occupied. The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus Further still under the trees, French cavalry, with their lances slung slantwise across their shoulders, rode their horses in and out between the giant trunks. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Two small Americans and a Mexican youth were scooping the surface earth into the palms of their hands and blowing it out again in a slantwise stream. Gold He picked up the paper and held it slantwise to the light of the window while he peered at its surface. The Monk of Hambleton Being less proud of her eyes, she also approved of a style of hat which allowed the low, sloping brim, worn slantwise across the brows, to conceal one of them. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Here, where the sun descended slantwise, were the high latitudes, the coldest spaces upon all the whole planet. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 He had no axe with which to cut them, and in the emergency, he laid the ends together in the fire slantwise from the chimney, and as they burned away, he shoved the logs forward. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew With her head coquettishly set slantwise she fixed her grave eyes––they were very like her mother’s––on Mrs. Dana’s face. At the Crossroads Sometimes, moving slantwise, they were caught by a side blast, and then they walked leaning at a sharp angle against the wind. The Island Mystery The sun-blinds were down to darken the room; Gil held his book slantwise to a chink and read diligently, moving his lips to pronounce the words. The Spanish Jade Joe’s slantwise mouth was set obstinately; his little eyes flashed angrily in the moonlight, and his whole attitude was one of a man combating an argument which his soul is set against. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana This was a solution of the unhappy problem, and it seemed to throw a ray of sunlight slantwise into the gloomy picture of the coming summer. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Fuller slipped into a narrow crevasse that ran slantwise of the slope and extended upward to the rim of the pit. Vulcan's Workshop The lines of rain-drops went slantwise past the windows, and then beat violently upon them; the ground was wet in a few minutes; the sky was dark with its thick watery veils. Nobody She glanced at him; slantwise, yet the look made his heart ache. The Combined Maze The southwestern trail headed slantwise for the mountains, which snowy barrier bounded his vision to the west the whole of his journey. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana They obviously came from a house on our side of the street, for the sun was entering my windows slantwise. The Confessions of Arsène Lupin He uttered not a word, but held his head slantwise and steadfast, as if listening. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Dragged down by his own weight, the Mole sinks into the grave, but slantwise, with his head still outside, kept in place by the second strap. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles It was but a few steps to the gate, yet I reached it wet through, half blinded by sheets of water driven slantwise in my face, and with the breath nearly beaten out of me. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Their shadows stretched slantwise before them, grotesquely lengthened by the last efforts of the disappearing sun. Desert Dust The next minute they had swept over the brink, and Flora Schuyler saw the trail dip steeply but slantwise to lessen the gradient to the frozen creek. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter On my way to Vitoc, I was passing through a ravine in which the uprooted trunk of a tree was resting slantwise against a rock. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Mac sat in the dust, his back against a bank, with his rifle leaning slantwise across him, and his equipment hanging awkwardly. The Tale of a Trooper When she had come into her room, where the afternoon sun fell slantwise upon the coverlet of her bed, picturing there the small window frame, she had had a wonderful feeling of peace and contentment. Lisbeth Longfrock Six o'clock had chimed from the church tower, and already the sun's rays were falling slantwise across the water, and tingeing the kingly heights of Arran with a royal purple radiance. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls He removed the covering and peeped slantwise at the strange woman who stared at him unseeingly with large, bright eyes. The Branding Iron When the wood flared, a lady seated to the left of the stove cast a caricature-like shadow slantwise on the ceiling, her head seeming gigantic in its piled-up masses of elaborately dressed hair. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The feel of gravity pulling them slantwise and downward was purest nightmare. Space Platform As she threw off her shirt, the last darkly red light showed me another smooth slantwise scar, this one around her hips, like a narrow girdle that has slipped down a little on one side. The Night of the Long Knives He could now see, slantwise through the thick glass, a large steam yacht, afire from her mainmast to her bow, and on the still intact quarter-deck a woman frantically beckoning. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility I drew the curtain and saw that sheets of rain were still being blown slantwise across the foggy radiance of the arc lights. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle She laughed at the somberness of her reflection, which she at once set about relieving with a great bunch of geraniums—big and scarlet and long-stemmed, that she thrust slantwise through her belt. At Fault It was snowing—snow coming in off the lake slantwise, like a blizzard on the plains. The Man Next Door He was of a strange yellow complexion, his eyes were set slantwise, he wore a short, loose, bluish frock with wide sleeves, and a round little hat, and down his back hung a long pig-tail. Gold Seekers of '49 The driving clouds Surging together, blotted out the sea, The beachéd ships, the plain with mound and tree, And slantwise came the sheeted rain, and fast The darkness settled in. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems Trencher, looking slantwise to the south, could see them plainly. From Place to Place But the loss of a leg”—the daddy-long-legs looked down slantwise—“is apt to embitter one, rather.” The Adventures of Maya the Bee She was holding her little palm slantwise over the chimney, and by blowing against it was trying to put out the lamp. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life The main business street was called Broadway, and the curb on either side was hidden by lines of cars drawn up slantwise at an angle of ninety. Gigolo Nevertheless, there is one place where a great rock runs slantwise of the stream, but under it, so that the water goes shallowly with a whisper, ah, so fast, and below it is a pool. The Spinner's Book of Fiction He lay face downward and slantwise across the front of the hearth, with arms spread, fingers hooked, and his neck protruding from the collar of his dingy dressing-gown like a plucked fowl's. The Adventures of Harry Revel She folded her letters slowly, and as we walked side by side her quiet eyes came slantwise to my face in a searching glance. Dross We'll set it up slantwise before the fire, open the doors and lie down in it. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's After which he got into his overcoat, muffled himself up well around the ears and nose, for the air outside was cold with a biting north wind, and the rain still drove slantwise in torrents. Civilization Tales of the Orient Then they dropped suddenly into swimming water, and the current swept them downstream slantwise for the opposite shore, only their heads showing above the surface. North of Fifty-Three There is a lovely view from this transept, looking slantwise into the Lady Chapel. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The steel point had pierced slantwise through his femoral artery. Foe-Farrell The afternoon sun was coming slantwise over the western mountains, sinking steadily toward the rift out of which came the rose veil that she had watched many times. The Two-Gun Man Three nights more, and though he would not see it, the Southern Cross would lift slantwise into the sky. The Four Feathers A hole was cut in it slantwise, and six fibres of the stem were kept up in an elevated position at each end, by means of a small bridge. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands One afternoon, it happened that the Prince after turning his horse's head for home remarked a low dense cloud of dark dust cutting off slantwise a part of the view. Tales Of Hearsay The sunset struck slantwise across her cheek and hung entangled in the brown tress that drooped low by her right temple. Foe-Farrell They walked for an hour arm in arm over the road that lay like a gray ribbon before them in the night, winding up slantwise along the rugged country. The Stolen Singer "Have you noticed how Pop's been watching you—looking slantwise out of the corners of his eyes whenever you come around." The Black Pearl When gathered, the leaves are thrown for a few seconds into boiling water, and then placed on flat iron plates, inserted slantwise in stone-work. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands At the very same instant an arched mass of water came flying slantwise over the port bow. Atlantis He looked anxiously down the hill; then he lifted those soft, slantwise eyes to mine very wistfully. The Soldier of the Valley Barriers occurred frequently placed slantwise across the roads, where sentries stood with fixed bayonets, and through which no one could pass unless the laisser passer was produced. Fanny Goes to War The weltering sun, of which the beams just topped the farther side of the quadrangle, fell slantwise on their armour, and heightened their exaggerated and restless movements. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France "You know, you weren't very polite to me," she remarked, glancing at him slantwise as he stood before her. Success A Novel The last house in the valley was soon passed, and we entered those bleak gorges where the wind, fine, noiseless, penetrating like an edge of steel, poured slantwise on us from the north. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Old Captain sat up on his haunches, his slantwise eyes wide open with wonder. The Soldier of the Valley In that vast, seething sea of slantwise icy nodules not the oldest plainsman could hold notion of the compass. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Frau Brandt raised her good brown face from her knitting, and her good brown eyes looked anxiously upwards, slantwise over her tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles. My Friend Prospero While the piece of wire is straight, it is laid along a little groove in a block of wood, and there barbed by the stroke of a chisel, slantwise across it. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries She looks out slantwise, conscious of her beauty, and perhaps of certain other things. A Christmas Garland The slantwise eyes became grave, and the long tail paused. The Soldier of the Valley This snow came not down from the sky, but slantwise across the land, parallel with the earth, coming from the open side of the coldest nether hell hidden in the mysterious North. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains After a little search, however, we discovered a very shallow depression running slantwise up the hill and back of the cover. African Camp Fires Each time he passed before the tabernacle he made a genuflexion slantwise, which threw him all askew. Abbe Mouret's Transgression But from our place on the stair we had a clear view slantwise of one small table in the corner. The Belfry On his haunches, his slantwise eyes half closed, his head lifted high in the bright sunlight, sat little Colonel, wailing. The Soldier of the Valley Then I went nearer yet, and passed to the waterside, where I could look slantwise across the doorway. King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet And there in the darkness on the grizzly coast, for darkness was swooping slantwise down the sky as though with some evil purpose, there stood that lonely, gnarled and deciduous tree. Tales of Wonder Andy turned his eyes, but not his head—which was a way he had—and regarded Pink slantwise for at least ten seconds. The Happy Family The sun was glinting slantwise over the undulating uplands to the east. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Clint, with a swollen mouth and a piece of dirty surgeon's plaster running slantwise above his right eye, panting for breath, bathed in perspiration, watched his adversary as Carmine yelped his signals again. Left Tackle Thayer Put a board slantwise against the bottom of the pond so there is a space between the board and the side you are to plaster. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. The people crowd about the well, leaning brown covetous faces above the coping as my copper falls slantwise to rest. Profiles from China When it was day, they met at the river and they fought until afternoon; and when Aponītolau was thirsty his headaxe turned slantwise and water blue as indigo flowed off it freely. Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore And May sits weeping in the shade The weeds on April’s grave have made, Blown slantwise in the sobbing blast. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland A ray of the afternoon sun fell slantwise from one of the high windows, and, crossed by it, her eyes blazed like lamps in their sockets. True Tilda Do not cut straight across the stem but cut slantwise. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. A narrow track led to it, through the gaps, slantwise, from the gate of the mistal. The Three Sisters His eyes had a slantwise expression, but his dress was immaculate. People of the Whirlpool The sun was shining slantwise over the field, and showed all the moist, dark soil just like any other newly-planted piece of ground. Tanglewood Tales The Abbot stood by the narrow window, and his long black shadow fell slantwise across the rush-strewn floor. The White Company All this time, there is a very waterfall of luggage, with a spray of dust, tumbling slantwise from the pier into the steamboat. Reprinted Pieces On the right a cottage piano was set slantwise. The Three Sisters The crack was only a few inches wide, large enough to let in an arm and a foot, and it ran slantwise up a perpendicular rock. Prester John Him the pilot heard; And turned his vessel slantwise to the foe. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars The sun shining slantwise through the trees threw delicate traceries across the road, with bars of golden light between. The White Company "Listen to him now," she answered, with her hand half raised and her head turned slantwise towards the open door. Round the Red Lamp It told her that he was a ferocious and solitary reader; for in the long rows of book shelves the books leaned slantwise across the gaps where his hands had rummaged and ransacked. The Three Sisters Their faces, dusky red on the side of the glow from the fire, pallid where the electric light fell slantwise upon them from above, had for a moment a mysterious something in common. The Market-Place Gradually bringing the light from behind a screening curtain he held it in such a manner that it fell slantwise on her face without shining on her eyes. The Mayor of Casterbridge Cloths ran slantwise about chin, brow, and head, leaving only breathing space and one eye uncovered. Captivating Mary Carstairs He dropped and lay, crawled forward in a moist darkness, rose and made a slantwise dart across the hill's face, crouching as a bullet struck into a nearby trunk. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Alice set the lamp on the top of the cottage piano that stood slantwise in a side window beyond the fireplace. The Three Sisters Just then the moonlight sliced the porch slantwise, And flashed in misty spangles in the eyes Floretty clenched—while through the dark—"I jing!" A Child-World She could see slantwise as she went on playing. Mary Olivier: a Life She had picked up her good looks again, went bravely dressed in his livery of white and green, with his hooded falcon across her bosom and embroidered slantwise upon the fold of her doublet. The Forest Lovers An opening, cut slantwise through the wall dividing the chamber, allows a person lying in this recess to see the monument in the chapel. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Two stout stakes driven slantwise in the ground with three logs cut the same length, one on top the other, resting against these stakes. The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill She was darker than her brother—so dark that her heavily coiled hair seemed to be black until the light shone slantwise across it. The Doings of Raffles Haw He was turned slantwise from the nightlight on the washstand so that it showed his yellowish skin under the lifted shirt. Mary Olivier: a Life Sunk into poverty, great rocks thrust up all down the channel, with here and there a stick of timber hung up thwart and slantwise; one could cross dry-shod by way of stick and stone. Wanderers It flickered on the circle of our faces as we pressed round, and it came slantwise and waned and disappeared in the immense length of the Barrel. The Path to Rome I left the cottage from the rear and struck slantwise across the fields to reach the shelter of the trees and undergrowth that covered the slope down to the road. The Yeoman Adventurer Before him lay the long sloping countryside, all dotted over with the farmsteadings and little red cottages, with the morning sun striking slantwise upon their grey roofs and glimmering windows. The Doings of Raffles Haw She could see Mamma's small beautiful nose bending over the tray of beads, and her bright eyes that slid slantwise to look at her. Mary Olivier: a Life The luxuriousness of bathing in an ocean having a temperature of 108° is not for the multitude who crowd in reeking cities which the sun touches tremulously and slantwise. My Tropic Isle Then I saw another trench that ran slantwise up the hillock and it contained more of the pygmies. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front A broad piece of flooring, that had fallen slantwise, roofed her in, and saved her from the mass of iron-work overhead, which would have crushed the breath out of Titans. Men, Women, and Ghosts He pointed to a white sail far out stuck up like a feather slantwise in the water. The Little House in the Fairy Wood She, on her side, had certainly not noticed him, but by glancing slantwise towards the looking-glass he could observe all her movements. Fruitfulness The Austrian snipers were busy, and another Italian standing close to me, looking out slantwise through a peephole, was shot through the jaw. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement He leaps upon the smooth tree-trunk, growing slantwise instead of perpendicular. The Iron Game A Tale of the War We reached the gap, and made slantwise across the farther hill. Salute to Adventurers These, I wedged up, slantwise, against it, from the floor, nailing them top and bottom. The House on the Borderland The pale moonlight fell slantwise on the features, disclosing them fully. Temporal Power No moonlight penetrated here, save toward the dawn, when pale beams fell slantwise across the ghostly swamp. Annette, the Metis Spy He was alone at the corner of the Altstrasse, and the rain was beating slantwise into his face. Princess Maritza He looked slantwise at the graceful, girlish figure by his side. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus In a moment Twaddles was pinned as tightly as Dot, a narrow, string-like coil of vine wrapping securely round his ankles and a sharp stake thrusting itself slantwise through the sleeve of his sweater. Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island At the self-same instant the window blew open, with a loud crash— it swung backward and forward on its hinges, and a torrent of rain poured through it slantwise into the room. Ardath The leisurely, long, slantwise course across the Atlantic gives one time, also, for making the acquaintance of one's fellow passengers and for wondering why some of them ever went to Europe anyway. Europe Revised The boy was found first, fearfully burnt about the face and hands, but protected from being crushed by the boards which had fallen slantwise over him. My Young Alcides She walked slowly past them, toward the fence of the cemetery, looking slantwise to the right and the back. Mother Dragged down by his own weight, the Mole sinks into the grave, but slantwise, with his head still outside, kept in place by the second ligature. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects It lies slantwise, one end of it resting on the food and the other sticking up at some distance above the honey. The Mason-Bees The hunchback got on his feet, in position like a duelist, his hard, bitter face turned slantwise toward my father. The Sleuth of St. James's Square The afternoon hours are most proper,—not earlier, however, than that one when the sun passes to the side of Jove's temple on the Capitol and begins to look slantwise on the Forum. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero One gendarme bent down, and, looking slantwise at Vyesovshchikov, began to collect the books scattered on the floor. Mother On it swam, somewhat slantwise with the tide, so that by turning my head I could see all that passed upon the mole. The Brethren Presently Gobo touched my leg; I glanced round, and saw him pointing slantwise towards the left. Maiwa's Revenge Three masts and a broken bowsprit sticking slantwise up from a whirl of creamy white, that was all they could see of the bark, at first glance. Keziah Coffin But once there in a row one behind the other with our faces to the wall, and the night air blowing slantwise—well I am nervous on a height and I gasped. The House of the Wolf; a romance It was the play of light striking slantwise from the entrance, no doubt, but it seemed to Kate that a flicker of yellow light danced across the eyes of the child. The Seventh Man Then the rain fell faster and harder, and beat slantwise against the windows of the booking office and of the chill place that had General Waiting Room on its door. The Railway Children Rays of sunlight fell slantwise across the little town which glittered like a diamond, for the soft red light which poured over it like a flood was reflected by all its window-panes. The Country Doctor The keeper must fix the forked props slantwise, so as to stand the strain when subjected to tension. The Sportsman When I awoke, the sun was high, and shining slantwise on our window. The House of the Wolf; a romance But what is there to prevent those doors to be fitted so as to move upwards, or horizontally, or slantwise? Notes on Life and Letters His cane had fallen from his grasp and lay slantwise across his waistcoat. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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