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n. (plural of slanting English)
Usage examples of "slantings".
As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along 'into the midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and 'the weeds were wrapped about his head,' and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.
As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along“into the midst of the seas,” where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and“the weeds were wrapped about his head,” and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.
As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along 'into the midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and the weeds were wrapped about his head,' and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.