The afternoon sun was lighting up his face with a slanting ray as he sat by the bedside and looked toward the window; and when he turned his eyes again on his friend, he could hardly refrain from starting.
In the basting for velvet where the slanting stitch is used, only one end of the stitch touches the line of the seam--the rest is on the outside of the seam.
Point the needle towards the left shoulder, thus giving a slanting stitch.
Sidenote: Cat Stitch] (3) The cat stitch or herringbone stitch is an alternateslanting back stitch, the needle being placed first to the right and then to the left.
After the garment has been folded back until there are two folded edges side by side, overhand the seam with even slanting stitches.
Begin at the center of one side and hem all around the square, taking slanting even stitches, not too close together.
Sidenote: Tacking] The slanting basting stitch or "tacking" is used in dressmaking for holding linings.
Sidenote: Overcasting] (7) Overcasting is a slanting stitch used to keep raw edges from ravelling.
Ray had but just come in from the street without where the slanting sunbeams bursting through the clouds beat hot upon the dazzling walls, and his eyes had not yet become accustomed to the change.
Hot and strong the slanting sunbeams beat upon the grimy roofs of the train and threw distorted shadows over the sand and sage-brush that stretched to the far horizon.
Ten and three fourth inches above shelf A, and three inches from right-hand side, make one half inch hole slanting down; one and one half inches beyond make another; insert pegs three inches long.
As a precaution against the possible peeling of the film, it is well to dip the negative in a strong solution of alum and water, then wash again, and set up to dry in a slanting position, with the film side next the wall.
Measure length of middle and side windows and cut the poles at the angle shown by the folded paper: a few brads will secure the slanting ends when they are neatly put together.
The lines of his face relaxed under Ila's curved smiles and slanting glances.
Slanting into the heavy perfume of flowers were the pungent odours of a forest fire.
Mrs. Washington was in pink; Tiny in white and a seraphic expression; Rose wore black net and red slippers, a bunch of red geraniums at her belt, her eyes slanting at the men about her.
The sun's rays fell slanting through their dense foliage, and cast broad shadows upon the bright green sward, which, with the trees themselves, glowed in the evening light.
Refreshed by the honey and fodder at Ramsey's, the pilgrims went gayly along the musical Laurel, in the slantingrays of the afternoon sun, which played upon the rapids and illumined all the woody way.
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss.
He was standing on the slanting end of an upheaved log dominating the scene.
There followed the quick crack of the fowling-piece, a cloud of feathers in the air, a longslanting fall.
She never could have told afterwards what made her stay there all the afternoon, but stay she did, and never came down until the sun had commenced to throw slanting shadows across the grass.
The brute wheeled, not down-hill towards the other riders, but slantingback and still upwards in the direction of Awara and the camp.
The westering sun was turning it to broad belts of dun, and yellow, and green, as the slantingbeams fell upon earth, or marigold weed, or crops.
The bin, however, turned out to be rather an uneasy seat, for as the potatoes lay in a slanting heap against the wall, Phelim and his sweetheart were perpetually sliding down from the top to the bottom.
The sun was shining with slanting mid-afternoon rays down among the trees by the creek.
Long, gray talons reached out from the folds of a mandarin jacket and toyed nervously with a strand of gray hair which jutted from the pigtail winding over the slanting shoulder.
The mist from the Whang-poo had changed to a slanting rain.
Under the slanting roof sheltering the platform, a hundred yards or so in length, some shadowy forms went to and fro, resignedly waiting.
When the slanting sun fell upon him in front, the monstrance itself looked like another sun.
Also it would, since the bullet followed the line of declination of the fifth rib, it would make the ribs placed in a too slanting position.
The light green garlands of fir, with which it was profusely adorned, formed a strange contrast to its slanting smokestack and the damaged condition of the deck-rail.
They went up a crazily slanting spur of stone, whose sides were too steep for sand to lodge on, and whose narrow crest had a bare thin coating of powder.
But they went up its leeward, steeply slanting side.
By slanting the ironing board, he managed to get its broad end out through the window.
It was about four by six inches, with slanting slats.
