" At an upper window, in a building on the far side of the white symbol, the travellers caught a glimpse, through the slanting snow, of one of the Sisters of St. Ann shutting in the bright light with thick curtains.

The slanting edge looked dangerous, but was not, although one must be steady and there was an awkward corner.

Keep it pressed against the saddle, not slanting outward or backward.

Except in stormy nights, when all was dark, And the wild tempest swept with slanting wing Against her refuge; and the heavy spray Shot through the doorway serpentine cold arms To seize the fore-doomed morsel of the sea: Then she slept never; and she would have died, But that she evermore was stung to life By new sea-terrors.

And slanting down the bank she rolled, But in her little bosom's fold She clasps the baby tight; And in the ditch's muddy flow, No safety sought by letting go, At length she stands upright.

The second characteristic we note is that there is extremely rapid progress at the beginning, the curve slanting up quite sharply.

And the way of making a marble quarry is to sink a tunnel, slanting very steeply down into the earth, like a well turned askew, till you reach fifty, seventy, or perhaps one hundred feet deep.

The sun was almost down by now, and its slanting rays slid lengthwise through the elm-tree aisles along our route.

I swam up in a slanting direction, hoping to avoid the boat that I had struck.

The setting sun was slanting its long rays against low-hanging masses of summer clouds, turning them to warm scarlet and rosy red; and it was from them that the red light, mellow and glowing, was flung earthward.

This plain was dotted with lovely lakes, whose waters shone in the slanting rays of the declining sun....

At last, in desperate mood, they sought once more The Temple's porches, searched in vain before; They found him seated with the ancient men, The grim old rufflers of the tongue and pen, Their bald heads glistening as they clustered near, Their gray beards slanting as they turned to hear, Lost In half-envious wonder and surprise That lips so fresh should utter words so wise.

It (the road) went wandering lazily through the corn-fields, down by the river, into the very depths of the woods,the low October sunshine slanting warmly down it all the way, touching the grass-banks and the corn-fields with patches of russet gold.

Company after company, regiment after regiment, brigade after brigade swept by until our eyes grew weary with watching the ranks of grey under the slanting lines of steel.

Tahiti was a molten rock, fused in a subterranean furnace, and cast in some frightful throe of the cooling sphere, high up above the surface of the sea, the seething mass forming into mountains and valleys, the valleys hemmed in except at their mouths by lofty barriers that stretch from thundering central ridges to the slanting shelf of alluvial soil which extends to the sand of the beach.

The young hunter was standing with his ear slanting, his head bent forwards, and his eyes glancing sideways like a man who listens intently.

The slanting sunbeams shimmered upon her silken garments; from her careless hand drooped an instrument of gold and of tortoise-shell, an instrument strange to the eyes of the monk.

The nose of the car and all the machine was slanting downwards, we were gliding quickly down, and yet there was no feeling that one rushed, not even as one rushes in coasting a hill on a bicycle.

An attic it was, with lead-framed dormer windows, a slanting ceiling and a bulging wall, covered, as a number of torn places witnessed, with innumerable strata of florid old-fashioned paper.

The title-page was adorned with one bad wood-cut that showed a grim, plain house standing obliquely to a churchyard packed with tombstonestombstones upright and flat, and slanting at all angles.

The slanting shadow.

With hideous squint the railer leered: on one foot he was lame; Forward before his narrow chest his hunching shoulders came; Slanting and sharp his forehead rose, with shreds of meagre hair.

The people standing gravely around, the familiar faces, the harmonious chant, the odor of the incense, the long rays slanting through the windows, the very sombreness of the walls and archesall appealed to his heart.

But firstI'll get the boss pirate of the outfit" Swiftly the clutching figure scrabbled in over the rail, dropped to the metal plates of the take-offnow slanting steeply down and forwardand broke into a staggering run directly toward the gallery where stood Bohannan and the Master.

For the attacker, grunting, lunged forward, fell prone, sprawled on the down-slanting plates of the take-off platform.