The sun shone aslant into his face. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Again Descartes looked at her aslant for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
Where all land runs aslant, as all land does on this. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
How gallantly the water-jets curve soaringly aslant!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
The reddening rays of the sun fell more and more aslant. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
Her head a little aslant, the girl regarded him critically. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Trazz came creaking up aslant, doing a laugh of surprise, tsss-tssss. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
The mare glanced aslant at him, drew up her lip, and twitched her ear. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
They eyed him aslant as they worked, for visitors were rare occurrences. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
His hat, aslant over his brow, and took a pose on his toes for all of us. From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: Maya Angelou's Elegy For Michael Jackson] Reference
Judith scanned the doors critically, her brows puckered and her head aslant. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Yet Morgan was drilled by the boring sun until his view upon life was aslant. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. From Wordnik.com. [Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.)] Reference
'First let me rule your book, for you always contrive to draw the lines aslant. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
He withdrew it from his hatband, where he always wore it aslant like a feather. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Bessie, bending aslant, because the frost of so many winters had slowly undermined it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Between yard-arms hanging aslant and over decks, glimpses of the Nile might be caught. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, their yards aslant to catch the faint morning breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
Presently Mentu, raising his head, noted that the shadows were falling aslant the court. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Both had dark faces, set off by cloth caps, which were drawn down aslant over their brows. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
The snake's brow is draped aslant in the tree's glossy leaves, suggesting a comic green beret. From Wordnik.com. [Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler] Reference
He had assumed a bantering air: a light, half-caressing, half-ironic, shone aslant in his eye. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
He held the page aslant patiently, bending his senses and his will, his soft subject gaze at rest. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
His golf cap, which was also from stock and aslant over his eye, gave his misery a desperate touch. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
In the case of the alphabet, the chances for the letters to fall bottom up or aslant are not included. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880] Reference
The board should be considerably aslant when first attempted, and gradually brought towards the perpendicular. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference
Orion lies aslant, under the Bull's hoof; in his left hand grasping his club, and raising the other toward the Twins. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
She looked towards the Temple; the sun threw rays aslant the roof and pillars, and it shone resplendent in the dying day. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The rays of the sun were falling aslant as she stepped out, and the western sky was aglow with crimson and purple and pink. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
With a great effort he grasped her firmly, and, turning slowly and painfully, swung aslant the stream to the opposite bank. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
A shadow fell aslant the corner of the veranda -- the shadow of a man thrown by the light from the drawing-room side window. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
At one end, a thick slab of red sandstone, of uncouth shape and rude appearance, leans aslant, partly buried in the mellow soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
"We shall meet again, dear boy," he said, putting both hands on my shoulders with his head aslant, and narrowing his green eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Because yours can only see just straight in front of them, whereas mine are prominent and so projecting, they can see aslant. 231. From Wordnik.com. [Symposium] Reference
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