"Sidelong" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tune their instruments, it was possible to look round at the not especially large audience. But in whichever direction Emmy looked she was always brought back as by a magnet to Alf, who sat ruminantly beside her. To Alf's sidelong eye Emmy was looking surprisingly lovely. The tired air and the slightly peevish mouth to which he was accustomed had given place to the flush and sparkle of an excited girl. Alf was aware of surprise. He blinked. ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton
... a sluggish movement,—stretched and fawned like one awaking,—then, as if he would have yet more of the enchantment, stirred her slightly with his muzzle. As he did so, a sidelong hint of the man standing below with the raised gun smote him; he sprung round furiously, and, seizing his prey, was about to leap into some unknown airy den of the topmost branches now waving to the slow dawn. The late moon had rounded ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 31, May, 1860 • Various
... descendant of the old Puritans of this English Boston, and quite as sour as those who peopled the daughter-city in New England. Our parlor had the one recommendation of looking into the market-place, and affording a sidelong glimpse of the tail spire ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... and Ishmael, for the first time showing any emotion, leant towards him. "If you say a word to him—" he began. The steps paused at the door and then went on again. Ishmael stayed bent forward, eyes sidelong. Archelaus began to speak, as though his mind had drifted backwards from the acuteness ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... and I am sorry," said Exel, casting a sidelong glance at the body. "Of course, it is a delicate subject. No ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
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