aslant

How To Use aslant In A Sentence

• When we entered the church, the long, dusty sunbeams were falling aslantwise through the dome and through the chancel behind it .... Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
• If we accept that our knowledge of a genre will affect our response to the work then what appears to reside in that particular genre, however aslant the work might appear will be viewed with reference to that particular ‘symbol system.’
•            Dropping the paper on the lawn, he turned to watch as Annette rose from the passenger door, her mouth open, jaw aslant. Deep Pockets
• She had a striking face, dark, lean, taut, with faded sandy hair and long, narrow eyes set a little aslant over sharp cheekbones. THE QUEST FOR K
• The wrecked train lay aslant the track.
• _Chorda filum_, many feet in length, lie aslant in the tideway; long shaggy bunches of _Fucus serratus_ and _Fucus nodosus_ droop heavily from the rock sides; while the flatter ledges, that form the uneven floor upon which we tread, bristle thick with the stiff, cartilaginous, many-cleft fronds of at least two species of chondrus, -- the common carrageen, and the smaller species, _C. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
• the sun shone aslant into his face
• The sunlight fell aslant the floor.
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• Where the sun falls aslantwise under the arch a sentinel, with musket and bayonet, paces to and fro in the entrance, and other soldiers lounge close by. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.