This is often referred to as slantwise convection. From Wordnik.com. [What made Wednesday's storm special?] Reference
Dung struggled to raise his head the higher slantwise. From Wordnik.com. [Flight in Yiktor]
Like one large petal, slantwise beneath her cheekbone. From Wordnik.com. [Night World No. 2] Reference
Do not cut straight across the stem but cut slantwise. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
He looked slantwise into her face, all his emptiness echoing. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
The tube had caught him slantwise in the mouth of the tubeway. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol]
We can place our choices slantwise, and then choose our columns. From Wordnik.com. [Phaze Doubt]
Lifting his chin this way and that, looking at himself slantwise. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
Chevette brought her shoulders forward and looked slantwise at Soupspoon. From Wordnik.com. [RL’s Dream] Reference
A smart cap with a stylish slantwise visor today confined his black curls. From Wordnik.com. [Araminta Station]
Anyway, I'm simultaenously amused and complimented slantwise by the review. From Wordnik.com. [News Just In: Story Doesn't Suck!] Reference
It cannoned off a ship's timber to slash slantwise through the struggling men. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
These, I wedged up, slantwise, against it, from the floor, nailing them top and bottom. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland] Reference
From the top left, slantwise down, crossing both the horizontal and vertical words: AN. From Wordnik.com. [Unicorn Point]
These circumstances lead to incredibly strong upward motion and the slantwise convection. From Wordnik.com. [What made Wednesday's storm special?] Reference
The sk~ itself a prison is, some anonymous hand had quoted in a slantwise scrawl across one. From Wordnik.com. [And all the Stars a Stage]
Stormlight shone slantwise through the aspen, illuminating tall hedgerows powdered with mist. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
Another cut, slantwise, sheared off its crown of leaves and left a glassy-sharp rounded point. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
I remember his eyes while we were dancing all those years ago, looking slantwise from the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Cookie Club] Reference
The rain had increased and was falling slantwise, and lightning played across the nearly black sky. From Wordnik.com. [Lucifer's Hammer]
Davies nursed our walnut-shell tenderly over their crests, edging her slantwise across their course. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
She walked slowly past them, toward the fence of the cemetery, looking slantwise to the right and the back. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
Not that the light was all that good, coming in slantwise through the filthy porthole windows in the gables. From Wordnik.com. [Homebody]
Muscles = pull the eye to the right and left; the = Oblique Muscles = move the eye slantwise in any direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
The hunchback got on his feet, in position like a duelist, his hard, bitter face turned slantwise toward my father. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
A sudden shaft of rosy light, striking slantwise through the windowless aperture in the wall, brought him to a standstill. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Raymond pressed slightly harder, urging me to lie back, and I let my head fall on the pillow, peering slantwise over my chest. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Combine that with my insecurities on becoming a new parent, twist it a bit, come at it slantwise, and this story is the result. From Wordnik.com. [new fiction: dragging the frame] Reference
She could see the house, and past the strip of shadow that fell slantwise of the yard, the bluegrass, green as grass in spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Dollmaker] Reference
All this time, there is a very waterfall of luggage, with a spray of dust, tumbling slantwise from the pier into the steamboat. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
Mrs. Mering had fallen slantwise across the door, with her head fortunately on the plush seat and her arms flung out to either side. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
I woke early next day and went to the window to see the long shadow of the copper beech lying slantwise across the lawn in the morning sun. From Wordnik.com. [Here Lies Gloria Mundy]
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