A wall of turbid water, aslope to the wide sky's wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Song] Reference
Already the sun is aslope, high still in a pale hot sky, 5. From Wordnik.com. [The Boundary Rider] Reference
Here on the bar of the sand-bank, steep yet aslope to the gleaming. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Song] Reference
Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
The that i fabian harmlessly nonsectarian of the aslope telecast is the goeteborg we had to overnight ignorantly rangy clathraceae at pigment for the blackbeard soothsayer. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Each one was ornamented with delicious roasts, en appolas, on sticks planted aslope around it, attentively watched by the longing voyageurs, who awaited the slow process of cooking. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
Years ago (as it seems) on a rainy winter evening, we watched the buoys of the Solent Channel streaming past us all aslope on the strong ebb-tide, and as the Trinity Brothers began to open their eyes for an all-night watch on the south coast, we closed ours to the world behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900] Reference
A post that the sinking of the ground has set aslope across the middle of the fairway. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
While the two crews were yet circling in the waters, reaching out after the revolving line-tubs, oars, and other floating furniture, while aslope little Flask bobbed up and down like an empty vial, twitching his legs upwards to escape the dreaded jaws of sharks; and Stubb was lustily singing out for some one to ladle him up; and while the old man's line -- now parting -- admitted of his pulling into the creamy pool to rescue whom he could; -- in that wild simultaneousness of a thousand concreted perils. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
While the two crews were yet circling in the waters, reaching out after the revolving line-tubs, oars, and other floating furniture, while aslope little Flask bobbed up and down like an empty vial, twitching his legs upwards to escape the dreaded jaws of sharks; and Stubb was lustily singing out for some one to ladle him up; and while the old man's line -- now parting -- admitted of his pulling into the creamy pool to rescue whom he could; -- in that wild simultaneousness of a thousand concreted perils, -- Ahab's yet unstricken boat seemed drawn up towards. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
And sat on further side aslope. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
And shoots aslope his ruddy rays. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems] Reference
Yonder riband of sunshine aslope on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
While the first drizzling shower is borne aslope. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference
A lute, aslope. From Wordnik.com. [Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses] Reference
"In a harbour grene aslope whereas I lay. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference
Ashore, 5/71, slantwise, aslope; 20/299, astraddle. From Wordnik.com. [Early English Meals and Manners] Reference
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