Here he confessed to a knife-like pain in his left side; the brunt of the blow, it seemed, had met him slantways between rib and hip. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Kenny Bayst, according to my slantways look at Nancy's racecard, was riding a horse called Rudiments: number seven, owned by the Duke of Wessex, trained by Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Rat Race]
She had a trick of widening her eyes, and looking slantways. From Wordnik.com. [Overture to Death]
Ned Alderson stood outside; he stood slantways, not looking at her. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference
As he says, "I move slantways away from liberals and conservatives, yet I feel them both". From Wordnik.com. [The Moderate Voice] Reference
He threw himself over slantways, and with his head bent as if it was broken, dropped into her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Death of Harriett Frean] Reference
The curtain inside was bunched a little towards the centre and by squinting slantways they were able to see into the room beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Death in Ecstasy]
If you work without this, place the material straight over the forefinger of the left hand; the material must never be held slantways. From Wordnik.com. [Beeton's Book of Needlework] Reference
The sun was round to the west and threw long, golden rays, that were all lovely light and no heat, slantways on the paved floor and the polished tables and the bright pewter. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
At this point Latitude took a geniusly psychedelic slantways twister of a path, as i bumped into the lovely Carly, who I knew in her previous incarnation working as design assistant for. From Wordnik.com. [Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion] Reference
The first half of it is worked slantways over 6 threads in height and 2 in width, the second half, like the common cross stitch, from right to left over the 3rd and 4th of the 6 canvas threads; each stitch is completed at once. From Wordnik.com. [Beeton's Book of Needlework] Reference
The model of some Alpine country raised in plaster on a flat board, and tilted slantways, at a low angle, into a basin of water, would exhibit, on a minute scale, an appearance exactly similar to that presented by the western coast of. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
The disposition of land and water on this coast suggests the idea that the Western Highlands, from the line in the interior, whence the rivers descend to the Atlantic, with the islands beyond to the outer Hebrides, are all parts of one great mountainous plane, inclined slantways into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
A miserable term of wandering, he landed in the winter season on Eigg, where he had a grown-up son, a miller; and, erecting a wretched shed with some spars and the old sail of a boat placed slantways against the side of a rock, he squatted on the beach, determined, whether he lived or died, to find a home on the island. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
The rain fell slantways now and Martin was quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Bloom] Reference
28th row knit together one purled stitch with one knitted slantways, so that there will be only 6 stitches left for each division; these stitches are knitted slantways in the 29th and 30th rows. From Wordnik.com. [Beeton's Book of Needlework] Reference
Miss Lambert's eyes turned aside slantways. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference
Papa, sitting slantways, nearly filled the cab. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference
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