" Lister seized the slanted rails.

PART IIITHE BREAKING STRAIN CHAPTER I THE FIRST STRUGGLE The engine-room floor-plates slanted, and light and shadow played about the throbbing machinery.

All else slanted at an ever-changing angle; the swiveled lamps were still.

Water ran from his clothes when he reached a slanted platform and seized a greasy wheel.

If the rolling hulk struck the tug planks and iron plates would be beaten in; moreover the men must jump from the slanted rail, and if they jumped short, their long boots and oilskins would drag them down.

Standing on a slanted platform with his hand on the throttle, he waited for the lurch that lifted the spinning screw.

The transplanted Yankee slanted at his nephew a quizzical smile.

Through the small, octagonal panes of the little windows encircling the choirrow upon row, like an antique necklace of opals set in frosted stoneworkthe sunlight slanted in a rainbow mist, broken by splashes of yellow flame from great wax candles in immense golden candlesticks, rising from the floor and steps of the altar, as from the altar itself.

The nostrils slanted slightly upward, making shadows there.

It was now late afternoon, and the sun slanted driving back the shadows of the nearing trees, of Sheila, of the dogs.

His eyes were large and dark brown with lids that slanted slightly across the corners.

This time he made no comparison of horses but went directly to an ugly-headed roan, long of leg, vicious of eye, thin-shouldered, and with hips that slanted sharply down.

Evening fell; the shadows slanted about them.

that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

And now, where circling hills looked down, With cannon grimly planted, O'er listless camp and silent town The golden sunset slanted.

So we come to quaint Holland, where we see windmills, ponts-levis, canals, galiots, houses with gable-ends to the streets and little mirrors outside the windows, slanted so as to show the frows inside what is going on.

The opposite shore of the cove, in the mouth of which the island lies, was dimly discernible, and the dense foliage of the willows surrounding the fishermen's houses loomed up in the distance, while at the extreme end of the Point the sea broke heavily on the long protruding reef which slanted eastward.

My idealism received a jolt of reality when Lambert Mascarenhas, editor of the periodical then, engaged in propagandist campaigning, suggesting that such slanted writing was necessary to achieve the end.

The moonbeams slanted bright and clear on the whole side of the castle overlooking the glen, and she plainly beheld the shadow of a man projected on the wall as on a screen.

A shed roof slanted from eight feet high on the door and window side to a bit more than five on the other.

There was a little beard of hoar frost along the side of every spear of grass and weed; which, as the sun rose higher, dropped off and lay under every twig and bent, in a little heap if it stood up straight, or in a windrow if it slanted; for so still was the air that the frost went straight down, and lay as it fell.

With a last long swoop, an abandonment of all the furious energies that for so long had been hurling her over burning sand and black crag, Nissr slanted to the grassy sward.

They presented a slightly concave façade to the plain, and slanted backward at about the angle of the Tower of Pisa.

A crevice in the northern wall of the enclosure looked out upon a steep slope of marl, almost a precipice, which slanted sheer into the boiling flood of the San Juan.

He was depicted as a baldheaded, elderly gentleman, with upturned eyes, apparently regarding with reverence a hole in an Indian-ink cloud through which slanted a gamboge sunbeam, and having a white beard, which streamed like a (horse-hair) "meteor on the troubled air."