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adjective
Sidelong  adj.  Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance. "The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love."


adverb
Sidelong  adv.  
1.
Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
2.
On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong. Note: (See Sideling, adv.)





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"Sidelong" Quotes from Famous Books



... summoned his attendant Jacobin to conduct Nicot to his presence. The painter entered with a fearless expression in his deformed features, and stood erect before Robespierre, who scanned him with a sidelong eye. ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... almost imperceptibly and darted a keen, sidelong glance at Leonora. She had not heard her sister's last remark, the name of Torquato Tasso had obliterated the present and she was gazing dreamily at the ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... The sidelong glances which Bippo and Pedros cast at the Aryks as they moved up the bank, brought a smile to the whites who witnessed them. The poor fellows were ready to let go and drop down dead the moment they felt the puncture of ...
— The Land of Mystery • Edward S. Ellis
... if nought else, set the question at rest. Did you not note how small and deep-set were the eyes which this boy turned on us with a sly glance as he passed. My Ambrose had ever a bold, free glance, with his big, lustrous eyes, not a sidelong, foxy look. Nay, my good friend, the truth gets more and more fixed in my mind that my child is safe in Paradise, where only I shall meet him in God's ...
— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall
... .. < chapter xxxvii 7 SUNSET > The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out. I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. Yonder, by the ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush like wine. The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver sun —slow dived from noon, —goes ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


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