6 examples of sideling in sentences

In another moment the wild rider came bounding out from among them, and moving now erect, now on all fours, came sideling up to Martin, flinging his arms and legs about, wagging his head, grimacing and uttering whinnying and other curious noises.

he said, sideling up nearer to his employer, and gazing with some curiosity into his face.

Adj. lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling.

Adv. astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about; all manner of ways; circuitously &c 629. obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard. 280.

My dear B.B.A gentleman I never saw before brought me your welcome presentimagine a scraping, fiddling, fidgetting, petit-maitre of a dancing school advancing into my plain parlour with a coupee and a sideling bow, and presenting the book as if he had been handing a glass of lemonade to a young missimagine this, and contrast it with the serious nature of the book presented!

With more address, (or such as pleases more) She runs her female exercises o'er, Unfurls or closes, raps or turns the fan, And smiles, or blushes at the creature Man. With quicker life, as gilded coaches pass, In sideling courtesy she drops the glass.

6 examples of  sideling  in sentences