aslant

How To Use aslant In A Sentence

• The evening sunlight shone aslant through the window.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The snake's brow is draped aslant in the tree's glossy leaves, suggesting a comic green beret. Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler
• I don't understand why she goes backwards, back and aslant, tacking to one side.
• Near me a titlark every few minutes rose from the sward, and spreading his wings came down aslant, singing with all his might.
• The evening sunlight shone aslant through the window.
• For years, people would look aslant at me, when I would make that statement. Pee-wee Herman takes Manhattan
• 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