"Sidewise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Almayer, sitting sidewise to the table, his elbow pushed amongst the dirty plates, his chin on his breast and his legs stretched stiffly out, kept his eyes steadily on the toes of his grass slippers ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... thorax; and they perceived the two lungs, like a pair of sponges, the heart like a big egg, slightly sidewise behind the diaphragm, the kidneys, the entire bundle ...
— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert
... her head sidewise, like a saucy bird, regarding him with mock gravity, a mischievous sparkle in her eyes. Mr. Thompson had a long arm and he stood close to her, tantalizingly close. She was smiling. Her lips parted redly over white, even ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... see why girls have to wear such long, silly skirts and ride sidewise. It's so much ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... you are, bending over! You're so stout now, you ought to bend sidewise; it's perfect folly, your trying to bend straight over; you'll get apoplexy. But now I must run, or I shall never be back in the world. Don't forget to look ...
— The Albany Depot - A Farce • W. D. Howells
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