How To Use Aslant In A Sentence
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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.
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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.’
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Dropping the paper on the lawn, he turned to watch as Annette rose from the passenger door, her mouth open, jaw aslant.
Deep Pockets
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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
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The wrecked train lay aslant the track.
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_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
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the sun shone aslant into his face
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The sunlight fell aslant the floor.
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What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room
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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.
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It had, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the sunshine fell aslantwise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful.
VII. The Governor’s Hall
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Dashing aslantwise, as before, the winged horse made another arrow-flight toward the Chimæra, and Bellerophon aimed another downright stroke at one of the two remaining heads, as he shot by.
Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People
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The paint seems to have been blown across the canvas by the wind, the solid forms lying aslant the canvas like plants flattened after a storm, the vertical drips of the residue testifying to the impact made by the passing devastation.
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With that single, starry gleam aslant on a level with her eyes, she rode through the ghastly twilight of the half-lit plains; now flooded with luster as the moon emerged, now engulfed in darkness as the stormy western winds drove the cirrhi over it.
Under Two Flags
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For the morning sun fell aslant on the great glass globe with gold fish in it, which stood on a scagliola pillar in front of the ready-spread bachelor breakfast-table, and by the side of this breakfast-table was a group which would have made any room enticing.
Adam Bede
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The evening sunlight shone aslant through the window.
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In Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a young girl happily cavorts in front of the TV screen broadcasting Elizabeth II's coronation; the moment simultaneously registers a shift in how the English experience their own history and a comical awareness of how "aslant" these experiences might prove to be.
Three brief reviews
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The evening sunlight shone aslant through the window.
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Then he shook the bridle, shouted loudly, and guided Pegasus, not aslantwise as before, but straight at the monster's hideous front.
Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People
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In its pristine state it consisted of a double row of three great open arches, with the wind blowing through them, and the sunshine falling aslantwise into them, while the bustle of the market, the sale of fish, flesh, or fruit went on within, or brimmed over into the streets that enclosed them on every side.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete
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I thought that if Henry remembered the fairy tales from his childhood, he would begin that reentering process, and it seemed to make sense that he would remember it aslant that he would remember the fairy tales in the original German.
Interview with Keith Donohue
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And in early America, African slaves invented a form of marriage, "besom wedding" or jumping the broom, in which a couple jumped over a broomstick stuck aslant in a doorway and declared themselves married.
Arlene M. Roberts: Committed: An Immigration Love Story
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This is a subject I have spoken to before, but now and then, I get a notion that is either new to me, or comes at the subject slightly aslant of where I was before, so ...
The Magical Mastery Tour
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The wrecked train lay aslant the track.
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Then he shook the bridle, shouted loudly and guided Pegasus, not aslantwise as before, but straight at the monster's hideous front.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
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For years, people would look aslant at me, when I would make that statement.
Pee-wee Herman takes Manhattan
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The evening sunlight shone aslant through the window.
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Near me a titlark every few minutes rose from the sward, and spreading his wings came down aslant, singing with all his might.
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I don't understand why she goes backwards, back and aslant, tacking to one side.
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The snake's brow is draped aslant in the tree's glossy leaves, suggesting a comic green beret.
Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler
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But the mollah calls to prayers from the minaret of a humble mosque; and in a dark corner illumined by aslant rays from a small high window in a wall, teaches to some half a dozen urchins the strange Arabic letters and the chants of the Koran.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
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Weircombe village as it lay peacefully aslant down the rocky "coombe," no one would have thought it likely to be a scene of silent, but none the less violent, internal feud; yet such nevertheless was the case, and all the trouble had arisen since the first Sunday of the first month of the Reverend Mr. Arbroath's "taking duty" in the parish.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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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, Complete