What is "slanting"

Usage examples of "slanting".

From a square forehead tapered an angular nose and slanting cheekbones.

The slanting rays of the setting sun are always recalled at the right time of day, and they are always linked with the vision of the hero, so that they sometimes, in their context, have an antinomic sense.

Two of the Land aircraft were slanting down towards the Bassin du Sud refugees and the Santander party.

The enticingly slender nose, the elegant cheekbones, and the delicate structure of her winsome face in its entirety were admirable enough to bestir the heart of many of his gender, but it was her large, silkily lashed dark eyes, slanting ever-so-slightly upward beneath gracefully sweeping brows, that revived images of the young, gangly sprite she had once been.

A pair of Guardswomen, resplendent in broad-brimmed hats with white plumes and lace-edged sashes embroidered with the White Lion slanting across their burnished breastplates and more pale lace at their cuffs and necks, stiffened on either side of the doors at her approach.

Sareitha, formal in their fringed shawls, bowed their heads slightly in respect, but Mellar swept off his plumed hat in a flourishing bow, one hand laid over the lace-edged sash slanting across his burnished breastplate.

But the last slanting rays of gold fell on the willows by the river bank, and Joyce stood for a long time, looking across the hedge and the meadow, thinking of the river and of Little Farthing on the other side of it where her new friend Fiona Goddard lived.

The damaged vehicle burned sullenly, occasional explosions jarring the ground and sending tongues of flame through its hatches and around the gun that lay slanting toward the ground, its mantlet slammed free of the surrounding armor.

It musta been finance and nothing but finance that made you aim the gun just a little higher, the line of fire slanting up above the wrist and above the ribs, your finger on the trigger getting the relay from your brain.

It is a happy Sunday party, all the picnickers in heavy clothes, the ladies with clasped parasols, the men with bowler hats and walrus moustaches, all handsomely arrayed on a blanket in a clearing, against a backdrop of steeply slanting shafts of light and trees of unbelievable grandeur.

The vaulted roof, with its quaintly carved angels, was for the most part dim and shadowy, but here and there a ray of sunshine, slanting in through the clerestory windows, changed the sombre tones to a golden splendor.

By which time it was middle to late afternoon, the light came slanting through the trees, and the forest was slowly quietening down .

The sun was slanting through the front windows, making the back of the showroom seem darker.

The slanting copper sunlight streamed through a few broken, shutterless windows and gave the place a somewhat bloody look.

Iril sped it along, slanting the sternboard to its limit against the wave-foot.