33 adjectives to describe slant

" Cries of delight and relief greeted this, and Howgah, the last of the Hungry Folk, swarmed up the steep slant and drew himself, crouching, upon the lip of the opening.

Before they could decide in their weaker minds what the immediate connection was, he had left them, at a sharp slant, in great intellectual disturbance, and was passing out through the entry-way with both his hands against the wall.

Here goes!" Another minute, and with a rush and a roar the plane sped along the field, took an upward slant, and set out for the coast.

A long loophole had been fashioned in the thick wall on a downward slant, so that a marksman might command anyone who crept forward to fire the fort.

Ain't you a bit glad to see us?" The lip trembled, the tragic dark brows lifted in their familiar slant.

Wondering if we had taken a favourable slant of wind, I went up.

Next he called one of the sailors to "boost" him, and was soon perched on the flat slant of a huge rock which formed, as it were, the keystone to the blockade.

AN ODE TO SPRING (TO GRANT AND NELLIE ALLEN) Is it the Spring? Or are the birds all wrong That play on flute and viol, A thousand strong, In minstrel galleries Of the long deep wood, Epiphanies Of bloom and bud. Grave minstrels those, Of deep responsive chant; But see how yonder goes, Dew-drunk, with giddy slant, Yon Shelley-lark, And hark!

Here along this gray shady slant of wall, in niches and cracks, and under ledges, and on benches, were the beds of the bears.

If the little slant towards the crag deceived you, it deceived me.

Watch and fast, march and fightclutch your gun? Day-fights and night-fights; sore is the strees; Look, through the pines what line comes on? Longstreet slants through the hauntedness? 'Tis charge for charge, and shout for yell: Such battles on battles oppress But Heaven lent strength, the Right strove well, And emerged from the Wilderness.

Now, Logan Kirby knew the tangled Syrian character and its myriad queer slants, as well as it can be given to a white man to know it.

Great wreaths and nodding masses of pampas grass were above the doors; a white heron and a rose-colored spoonbill stood together on a large bracket in one corner, and a huge gray owl was perched on what looked like a simple old apple-tree bough, over an inlaid writing-table which stood at an odd slant near one of the windows.

The Vicar was holding out his hand for his glass of water, and Essy pushed the plate toward him, so blindly and at such a perilous slant that the glass slid and toppled over and broke itself against the Vicar's chair.

There were a dozen such altars and groups scattered over the perpendicular slant of the hill.

" In silence, again, they left the gruesome gallery and went down the stairway with the Olema's torch leaving vague, fantastic wreaths of odorous smoke curling up along the polished, dull-yellow slant of the pyramid.

He adjusted carefully his somewhat bedraggled clothing, set the sword and pistols in his belt at a rakish slant, put the pack on the step beside him, and, lifting the heavy brass knocker, struck loudly.

He fell, turning a somersault, struck twenty feet below on the rough slant, bounded from that to fall down, striking suddenly and then to roll, a yellow wheel that lodged behind a rock and stretched out to move no more.

Here along this gray shady slant of wall, in niches and cracks, and under ledges, and on benches, were the beds of the bears.

"Dive thirty, sir," repeated the steersman below, and with a slight twist of his gear the horizontal rudders turned and the submarine inclined downward; the level-indicator showed a slight slant and the depth-gauge hand turned slowly roundtwenty-two, twenty-five, twenty-eight, then thirty feet, when the helmsman turned his wheel back a little and the vessel forged ahead on a level keel.

When we came to a long slow slant uphill, a road of loose rocks, we made about one mile an hour.

She could not fit a bias to save her life; she could only stitch up a straight slant, and leave the rest to nature and fate.

A low range of hills faced us, rising in a long sweeping slant of earth, like the incline of a glacier, to rounded spurs.

Everywhere pine needles dropped, shining in the sunlight like thin slants of rain.

The talk with Canim had excited her, and down all the twisted slant of the divide she harked back to the mocking fantasies of her dreams.

33 adjectives to describe  slant