"Slantingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... half-trimmed spruces behind him. He made several trips, the last of which was to stagger under a huge burden of spruce boughs. These he spread under a low, projecting branch of an aspen. Then he leaned the bushy spruces slantingly against this branch on both sides, quickly improvising a V-shaped shelter with narrow aperture in front. Next from one of the packs he took a blanket and threw that inside the shelter. Then, touching the girl on ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... him: rigidly unbendable, as an aeroplane tilts sideways in a puff of wind. And yet with graceful ease he kept pace with the Titanic forging through the water at twenty knots: as the wind met him he would rise upwards and obliquely forwards, and come down slantingly again, his wings curved in a beautiful arch and his tail feathers outspread as a fan. It was plain that he was possessed of a secret we are only just beginning to learn—that of utilizing air-currents as ...
— The Loss of the SS. Titanic • Lawrence Beesley
... beauty as she sat opposite him, her shapely bust rising grandly above the little table and curving gracefully to its task, while the head, poised just a trifle to one side, revealed a fair white face upon which the light of the window fell slantingly. For such wild solitary natures as that of Batoche the charms of female beauty are irresistible from their very novelty, and the old hunter's fascination was so great that he there and then resolved to cultivate ...
— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance
... burrows on a sidehill. This enables him to guard against being drowned out, by making the termination of the hole higher than the entrance. He digs in slantingly for about two or three feet, then makes a sharp upward turn and keeps nearly parallel with the surface of the ground for a distance of eight or ten feet farther, according to the grade. Here he makes his nest and passes the winter, holing up in October ...
— Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers • John Burroughs
... in the cemetery of Cayenne at Saint-Ouen, where Bongard and Sandoz read the inscription on a poor cross, without railing, set up slantingly across a path, "Eugenie, three ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson
... he arose and groped his way forward. He had not taken a dozen steps before he came to some rocks. They arose slantingly, and under them he found a dry spot, ...
— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer
... beating down slantingly, as if we were in a southern latitude, instead of in the far Northland. It was swinging around, its orbit ever visible and rising higher and higher each day, frequently mist-covered, yet always peering ...
— The Smoky God • Willis George Emerson
... in his own way," said the stork-father. "Swans fly slantingly, cranes in triangles, ...
— The Sand-Hills of Jutland • Hans Christian Andersen
... screaming toward the zenith, aerial bombs went whirling slantingly upward amid a shower of sparks, then to burst with deafening reports, sending out string after string of colored lights. Red and green fire gleamed, and the hot balls from Roman candles burst forth. There was a whizz, a rush ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... he gave voice to his curiosity, as she directed their course slantingly down the ridge away from Deep Canyon, "I am simply dying ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet
... skeleton-like walls. Glancing upward, I saw that much of the ceiling had vanished, enabling me to see that the upper storeys were even more decayed. The roof had, evidently, gone entirely; and I could see the green effulgence of the Starlight shining in, slantingly. ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... is shining on the tree tops in the park. The light changes gradually until it comes slantingly in through the windows. JEAN goes to the door ...
— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg |
