Definition of Slantly

1. slanty [adv] - See also: slanty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slantly

slant
slant-eye
slant-eyed
slant bar
slant bars
slant culture
slant rhyme
slant rhymes
slant sight
slanted
slanted ear
slantindicular
slanting
slantingly
slantings
slantly (current term)
slants
slantways
slantwise
slanty
slap
slap-back
slap-bang
slap-down
slap-happy
slap-headed
slap-up
slap and tickle
slap bang

Literary usage of Slantly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"None may answer, none may know, Winds and flowers come and go, I0 And the selfsame canon bind Nature and the Poet's mind. "THE YELLOW MOON LOOKS slantly ..."

2. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"None may answer, none may know, Winds and flowers come and go, 10 And the selfsame canon bind Nature and the Poet's mind. "THE YELLOW MOON LOOKS slantly ..."

3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, Philip Stanhope Worsley (1862)
"61 Then she came near and washed her lord, and knew That scar, which once with gleamy tusk a boar Dug slantly, on Parnassus hill, whereto He came to see ..."

4. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (1883)
"When R. Chija prayed, succes- this required a miracle, since he was con- sively a storm arose, the rain descended, slantly engaged in sacred study. ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... by Charles Scribner's Sons THE yellow Moon looks slantly down Through seaward mists, upon the town; And ghost-like there the moonshine falls Between the ..."

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