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    sidelong


    1. Harry gazed sidelong for a moment as the Great Plains smeared past the open state room window situated over where he sat at a small table


    2. a moment’s hesitation and a rueful sidelong glance at the


    3. fashions and sneaking the occasional sidelong glance at


    4. He cast a sidelong look


    5. spare the herd?’ asked Rene, directing a sidelong glance


    6. ‘I believe so,’ said Rene, with another sidelong


    7. He gave her a sidelong look with the faintest hint of amusement seeping through his stony façade


    8. The kid shook his head after a quick sidelong glance


    9. His quick sidelong glance at her reminded her that she shouldn’t have chanced asking


    10. His sidelong glance made her feel as if he had seen her one more time, this time though, it was her emotional nakedness that had been glimpsed

    11. When I explained my “relationship,” he gave me a sidelong glance and asked if the family actually knew me


    12. minutes,’ Laura said, with a sidelong glance at her companion


    13. ” Yigal, preparing to push off in the reed boat cast a sidelong glance at Moshe, who nodded confirmation


    14. Youssaf’s querulous sidelong, glance at her, having caught Moshe’s alert eye, triggered rapid-fire thoughts, That smart Youssaf wonders at my predicament


    15. What? Joshua thought, as he cast a sidelong glance that caught the raised eyebrows of Caleb, no depth in their line? The cynicism evident in the acid remarks convinced Joshua that the owner of the voice wasn’t impressed by the wisdom of this strategy either


    16. he cast a sidelong glance at Gad, “Sometimes, it seems that's the only way to get order and


    17. “I wouldn't bet on it!” Judah answered curtly, as he gave Moshe a fatherly sidelong glance


    18. He shielded his eyes from the powerful sidelong


    19. What? Joshua thought, as he cast a sidelong glance that caught the raised eyebrows of Caleb,


    20. to give me sidelong glances every now and then, but he turned to

    21. eye things with furtive, sidelong glances


    22. next to her she would cast them a sidelong glance and if she judged them as ‘hugly’ (ugly, as


    23. A sidelong glance showed her Techotl kneeling on the breast of his antagonist and striving to break the other's hold on his wrist and to drive home a dagger


    24. Stan nodded slowly, taking a sidelong glance at Ambrosius


    25. “Not at all, that would be splendid!” he replied with animation then cast his wife a sidelong glance


    26. own eyes,” she said slyly with a sidelong glance at Alex


    27. Banks gave her a sidelong glance, a curious look in his otherwise stoic


    28. Wickland shot a sidelong glance at Del, one of both contempt and curiosity at the question, before continuing, “And was Spalding issued a check for services rendered?”


    29. Wickland shot a sidelong glance at Del, then said contemptuously, “I guess you don’t read the newspapers, but Mr


    30. Wickland shook his head and gave Tom a skeptical sidelong glance

    31. Before he could even form a reply, Sophia came to his rescue, “I think what Mel means is,” giving Melissa a sidelong glance, “glad to see you again


    32. John briefly considered giving a sarcastic response, and apparently, Sophia had anticipated that as well, judging from the sidelong look she gave him


    33. As they walked out of the institute grounds, John saw Venarya give him a sidelong warning look


    34. Just as he pulled out of his space, he gave the impound yard a sidelong glance


    35. Gabby glanced sidelong at Aya, was that her true name? As her thoughts swirled, the grey mist began to swell around them, the emptiness melting into another place


    36. Sam relaxed his grip and looked sidelong at Aya, concern etched into his features


    37. Knowing full and well that I could potentially play this situation into my hands based solely on his mannerisms, his attention to my body and his wandering, sidelong glances, I said the one thing that had charmed dozens of men before him into taking me wherever I wanted to go: ‘Anywhere you’re going


    38. yesterday," muttered Pyotr Petrovitch with a hostile glance sidelong at Razumihin; then he scowled and was silent


    39. A stealthy glance now and then refreshed her like sips of fresh water after a dusty walk, for the sidelong peeps showed her several propitious omens


    40. O'Molloy sent a weary sidelong glance towards the statue and held his

    41. My eye catches Aiden Willis, stuffing his hands in his pockets, checking me out with a sidelong glance on his way out, the paperback still tucked under his arm


    42. Joe cast them sidelong glances but kept walking, leaning against the rain


    43. On the float they shared, the two crews passed each other silently, with eyes averted, only taking the occasional sidelong glance, like dogs circling before a fight


    44. He ruminated his discontent for a while, then began afresh with a sidelong


    45. ‘Truly is it said that all the world is evil,’ he thought, with another sidelong glance at the calves of the gentleman of the bedchamber


    46. and cast sidelong glances at the next box


    47. Gould that it was because he found there, in her absence, the relief of an atmosphere of congenial sentiment in old Giorgio's austere admiration for the "English signora—the benefactress"; in black-eyed Linda's voluble, torrential, passionate affection for "our Dona Emilia—that angel"; in the white-throated, fair Giselle's adoring upward turn of the eyes, which then glided towards him with a sidelong, half-arch, half-candid glance, which made the doctor exclaim to himself mentally, "If I weren't what I am, old and ugly, I would think the minx is making eyes at me


    48. ‘What makes you think he knows you?’ she added, with a sidelong glance at the baby’s eyes, that peered roguishly, as she fancied, from under his cap, at his rhythmically puffing cheeks, and the little red-palmed hand he was waving


    49. them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of And then there were-Oh, there were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tears, the laughter, the flattery, the sweet sympathy


    50. For the first time in her life she was regretting things she had done, regretting them with a sweeping superstitious fear that made her cast sidelong glances at the bed upon which she had lain with Frank



















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    Synonyms for "sidelong"

    askance askant asquint sidelong squint squint-eyed squinty lateral obliquely sideways sideling indirect diagonal edgeways oblique

    "sidelong" definitions

    (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy


    situated at or extending to the side


    inclining or directed to one side


    on the side


    with the side toward someone or something


    to, toward or at one side