sidlings

We can almost smell the gin, the effluvia of stale beer, the bad tobacco, hear the simpers and see the sidlings of Norah, feel sick with and at Charley: — he

The Three Clerks 2004

After pages of erudite sidlings and ironic doublings back, Adams finally whips out a placard and joins the nutty parade that says The End Is Near.

Henry Adams as Holy Fool Wills, Garry 1990

"Whoa, there, whoa!" cried the driver, for the old white steed had caught sight of the car and was testifying to its dislike of it by grotesque prancings and sidlings that threatened to wreck the ramshackle trap.

The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

"Whoa, there, whoa!" cried the driver, for the old white steed had caught sight of the car and was testifying to its dislike of it by grotesque prancings and sidlings that threatened to wreck the ramshackle trap.

The Windy Hill 1922

That great coach swingin 'round the curves and sidlings in the dark, I fancy I can feel the reins between me fingers now!

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

I liked for my own part a lot of history, but felt in face of certain queer old obsequiosities and appeals, whinings and sidlings and hand-rubbings and curtsey-droppings, the general play of apology and humility, behind which the great dim social complexity seemed to mass itself, that one didn't quite want so inordinate a quantity.

A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

We can almost smell the gin, the effluvia of stale beer, the bad tobacco, hear the simpers and see the sidlings of

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

The exquisite rapturous enjoyment of the odour of the endless bush-land when dimly lit by the blazing Southern stars, or the companionship of a sure-footed nag taking the lead round stony sidlings, or the music of his hoof-beats echoing across the ridges as he carries a dear one home at close of day, are all in a magic storehouse which may never be entered by the Goths who attempt to measure this unique and wonderful land by any standard save its own, -- a standard made by those whose love of it, engendered by heredity or close companionship, has fired their blood.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916