Oblique

Usage examples of slantwise.

The slow movement of the camels, the swifter movements of the circling pigeons about the square towers on the hill, the motionless, or gently-gliding, Arabs with their clubs held slantwise, the telegraph poles, one smaller than the other, diminishing till--as if magically-- they disappeared in the lemon that was growing into gold, were woven together for her by the shuttle of the desert into a softly brilliant tapestry--one of those tapestries that is like a legend struck to sleep as the Beauty in her palace.

She opened her eyes at the sky and glanced slantwise at me without lowering her head.

She touched her upper lip with her tongue and glanced slantwise at me.

He spit smoking saliva on the pavement, returned my look slantwise and said nothing.

A cigarette droops from his mouth and a pair of tinted glasses sits slantwise on his nose.

Nevertheless her curiosity was too much for her, and she stood motionless, seeing his head move slantwise across the torrent at a steady speed.

Meesle said as the gunship nosed slantwise down among the towers on the lower east side.

She, on her side, had certainly not noticed him, but by glancing slantwise towards the looking-glass he could observe all her movements.

On it swam, somewhat slantwise with the tide, so that by turning my head I could see all that passed upon the mole.

One gendarme bent down, and, looking slantwise at Vyesovshchikov, began to collect the books scattered on the floor.

She walked slowly past them, toward the fence of the cemetery, looking slantwise to the right and the back.

But he stood there, staring at her, and at a jagged knife scar that was slantwise across her cheek.

The way the afternoon light came slantwise in through the window and fell so silently across the hardwood floor, the dust motes floating in it like mist.

It rained all that week, and by Sunday morning, when Hobert emerged from the brownstone face of his building, the ground around the one lone tree growing slantwise on the sloping sidewalk of W.

One pedestrian skittered and tumbled, sending parcels every-whichway, another wet herself, a third keeled slantwise and the walk was stopped automatically by the servitors till she could be resuscitated.