Outside, the moon had risen to a point where its lightslanted dimly down the shaft.
The floor slanted slightly downward and was worn smooth as by many feet.
The white uniforms looked ghostly in the deepening shadows; but through a break in the trees a last sunbeam slanted over the wall, making the spikes on the officers' helmets glow like stars.
Ere he reached the end of the short ascent it was snowing gently; then, with a furious blast, hailing in slanted torrents that glittered like dew-drops in the almost ceaseless shiver of the silent lightning.
The girl Lois, sitting in her cart, was looking, attentive, at the slow surge of the shadows, and the slower lifting of the slanted rays.
A precise smile was on his lips and his eyes slanted toward the debris on the floor as if he were watching the fragments, fearfully.
She listened and understood only that this man with the black hair slanted across his forehead and the silent eyes, was talking to her.
It slanted gently into the ground, then widened into a tunnel in which he was able to walk upright.
She slanted a reluctant glance toward the chair containing the body.
That airplane of the bulbous body, the queerly slanted wings.
Climbing into the sky, a mile off the starboard beam, was an airplane with a bulbous body and queerly slanted wings.
That airplane of theslanted wings, the bulbous, almost bulletlike fuselage, what of it?
Ragged and rocky and covered with trees and chaparral, the canyonside slanted down dizzily for over fifteen hundred feet.
The rangy bay saddler slanted his left ear back at Oliver Drew and quickened his walking-trot.
The room was a corner room, with windows that looked south and east, and the early sun slanted in and lay in golden squares across the floor.
Heavy poles slanted against the base of a perpendicular bank some seven feet high, with others laid across them horizontally; on these brush was piled; snow had gathered, making a dense roof.
John Kenny was holding his dwarfish body erect to make the most of it, ancient head slanted so that he might look down his nose even at Boston Bay.
Mr. Kenny, why is the bowsprit slantedso low to the water?
Silvery dim bars of light slanted from the windows downward to the centre of the hall, and the varnished backs of the seats shone in long concentric curves.
The same morning sunlight that slanted through Henry Champney's tall library and parlour widows was slanting through the small streaked window of Shays, the shoe-mender.
A few yards off a trail went up the valley and slanted sunbeams crossed the narrow opening.
Not far off, a dark hole in a slanted white bank indicated the mouth of a snow shed, but Jimmy knew the stones and snow had come down the hill.
Bent rails slanted into the hole and a broken telegraph pole hung by the tangled wires.
Vague rocks pierced the vapor and grew distinct; the mist trailed away from battered trees and slanted fields of snow.
Her double row of passenger decks towered above the wharf, and Deering joined the crowd at the slanted gangway.
Others, broken by the wind, had not reached the ground and the locked branches held up the slanted trunks.
It would have slanted downward into oblivion so sweetly and softly that she would have never known when it reached that harmless consummation.
He began to chant to himself, and Mrs. Barton listened, her face slanted in the pose of the picture of Lady Hamilton; and Milord rejoiced in the interlude, for it gave him opportunity to meditate.
His eyebrows slanteddown and his moustache slanted up.
The morning sunbeams still slanted down on the small pile of furniture, and old Neddy went on munching the blades off which they were drying the dew, and Mad Bell continued to sit upon the wall, as if placidly waiting for events.
And gradually the centre patch narrowed, and the sun slowly slanted down.
The pigeons were just gathering to roost, and sunlight slanted on the dovecot, on their snowy feathers, and beyond in a shower on the top boughs of the woods.
And, while her lips touched his cheek, slanted at the proper angle for uncles, he never dreamed that she had been three miles already through the dew.
Gnats were dancing in the sparse strips of sunlight that slanted across the dark water, now that the sun was low.
A road slanted up the little limestone bluff, and above and below us stone houses could be seen nestling into the hill, houses higher on the river side, and with galleries there.
The sun slid across the heavens and shot narrow blades of light, now through one loophole and now through another, until a ray slanted from the western wall and rested upon the red-and-black paint of two dead bodies in the corner.
Behind it slanted up, in giant steps, a forest-clad hill of a thousand feet, and in front of it the stream was dammed and lined with cane.
These were surmounted by a very large flat stone, which slanted down towards the south, where was a door.
We passed by several farm-houses, and at last arrived at a dingle, the sides of which were plentifully overgrown with dwarf oaks, and which slanted down to a small dark river shaded with trees, which we crossed by a rude bridge.
The bony chinslanted forward aggressively, increasing the uncompromising aspect of the entire countenance.
The horses shook their heads and stretched their limbs, and slanted forward anticipative ears.
The afternoon sunlight slanted through the deep polished green of the trees.
The first rays of the sunset slanted through the trees, turning the green to gold.
Above his hat of office a huge round ruby stood high on a gold mount, and a peacock feather slanted down behind it.
The white girl smiled; seeming really friendly there in the dim ray of light that slanted in through a window.
The eyes, slanted only a little, looked brightly out from under penciled brows.
A beam of warm sunlight slanted in through the window of stained glass and threw a kaleidoscope of color on the wall.
One swelling crest the citadel shall crown, Its slanted bastions black with battle's frown, And bid the sons that tread its scowling heights Bare their strong arms for man and all his rights!
But when the fiery days were done, And Autumn brought his purple haze, Then, kindling in the slanted sun, The hillsides gleamed with golden maize.
We are certainly a good distance away from the Land of the Mangaboos," added Zeb; "for we have slanted away from it ever since we started.
The cavern did not come to an end, as they had expected it would, but slanted upward through the great glass mountain, running in a direction that promised to lead them to the side opposite the Mangaboo country.
Then he seemed to sidle round southward, not slanting wholly out his morning cheeriness until the noonday glory slanted in.
Her seat was under trees, between a man and a woman who slanted from her with hidden chins.
They neared the oak, and Emilia slanted her direction, so as to avoid the neighbourhood of the tree.
