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    1. obliquely from her he could almost see long slender whiskers sweeping out from her


    2. The same exercise is repeated with the eyes looking obliquely


    3. eyes are obliquely lowered


    4. He hinted obliquely at a


    5. “Don’t let them put it on too big,” I told Howard-Smythe obliquely


    6. How do you feel about Gibbon’s ‘compilers’ of history?” I queried obliquely


    7. “That was good shooting,” he said, rather obliquely


    8. His exhilaration continued through an early tea, and when he asked obliquely about my sex life, I told him I had a date with someone at the opera that night


    9. The pole intercepted to the lightning that was coming to smash irremediably against him, but before crashing with noise in the front of the house, hurt obliquely Americus in the head and threw him against the door, to few meters from which we were, remaining unconscious


    10. Half of the culture is already less self-responsible just on one issue I have addressed! Women’s decreased self-responsibility obliquely diffuses self-responsibility in men as well

    11. to their consternation it was running obliquely to their own


    12. Position the patient in sitting with an object obliquely in front of them


    13. Position yourself sitting with an object obliquely in front of you


    14. Position the patient in short sitting on a plinth with an object placed on a stool obliquely in front of them


    15. Position the patient in standing with their toes on a line and facing obliquely


    16. Instruct the patient to swivel on the balls of their feet to face obliquely in the opposite direction


    17. Position yourself standing with your toes on a line and facing obliquely


    18. Practice swivelling on the balls of your feet to face obliquely in the opposite direction


    19. You tell me roundly that I am selfish, and accuse me, not roundly because you are afraid it might be indecorous, but obliquely, in a mask of words that does not for an instant hide your meaning, of wearing Jaeger garments beneath my outer apparel


    20. “And I haven’t been there once” he said obliquely, in good spirits

    21. The daylight coming through the plain glass windows falls obliquely upon the pews ranged along the walls, which are adorned here and there with a straw mat bearing beneath it the words in large letters, "Mr


    22. Big tears lay in the corner of the half-closed eyelids, through whose lashes one could see two pale sunken pupils; the plaster stuck on her cheek drew the skin obliquely


    23. Silver plate sparkled in the jeweller's windows, and the light falling obliquely on the cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell-turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks, narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst melons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, were twisting paper round bunches of violets


    24. I mean, that you may look at a bed from different points of view, obliquely or directly or from any other point of view, and the bed will appear different, but there is no difference in reality


    25. obliquely, not only thwarted his admission, but giving a scream, as if he


    26. I could barely glimpse the swift passing of longnose sharks, hammerhead sharks, spotted dogfish that frequent these waters, big eagle rays, swarms of seahorse looking like knights on a chessboard, eels quivering like fireworks serpents, armies of crab that fled obliquely by crossing their pincers over their carapaces, finally schools of porpoise that held contests of speed with the Nautilus


    27. Hawkeye was not mistaken; for when the Hurons found their course was likely to throw them behind their chase they rendered it less direct, until, by gradually bearing more and more obliquely, the two canoes were, ere long, gliding on parallel lines, within two hundred yards of each other


    28. ” The authors obliquely reported that nine percent of their patients had died as a result of the surgery, and they did not mention which “bad” results affected the remaining fourteen percent


    29. Granddaughter Amanda Smith observed, while researching her book on Joe Kennedy, that during this time any mention of Rosemary ceased, “except obliquely in surviving family letters and papers


    30. The court-yard of this quarter is enclosed by enormous walls, over which the sun glances obliquely, when it deigns to penetrate into this gulf of moral and physical deformity

    31. words, I sparing disclosed my thighs, so that he could just touch the cloven inlet with the tip of his instrument: but as he fatigued and toiled to get in, a twist of my body, so as to receive it obliquely, not only thwarted his admission, but giving a scream, as if he had pierced me to the heart, I shook him off me, with such violence that he could not with all his might to it, keep the saddle: vexed indeed at this he seemed, but not in the style of displeasure with me for my skittishness; on the contrary, I dare swear he held me the dearer, and hugged himself for the difficulties that even hurt his instant pleasure


    32. The steamer had struck the lighter obliquely, heeling her over till she was half swamped, starting some of her timbers, and swinging her head parallel to her own course with the force of the blow


    33. He sat in an attitude which to anyone else would have been one of extreme discomfort, askew in his upright armchair, with his book held high and obliquely to the light


    34. Silver plate sparkled in the jeweller's windows, and the light falling obliquely on the cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones ; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell-turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks, narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst melons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, were twisting paper round bunches of violets


    35. He ducked into shadows and approached the house obliquely by cutting through side yards, crouching at last in the lee of the privet hedge bordering the Boxer living room


    36. The meeting began casually and obliquely, as all meetings should


    37. The upper mandible is furnished on each side (in the specimen examined by me) with a row or comb formed of 188 thin, elastic lamellae, obliquely bevelled so as to be pointed, and placed transversely to the longer axis of the mouth


    38. At their bases there is a short subsidiary row of obliquely transverse lamellae


    39. Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean


    40. The half-emptied line-tub floats on the whitened sea; the wooden poles of the spilled harpoons obliquely bob in it; the heads of the swimming crew are scattered about the whale in contrasting expressions of affright; while in the black stormy distance the ship is bearing down upon the scene

    41. All alive to his jeopardy, he was going "head out"; that part obliquely projecting from the mad yeast which he brewed


    42. Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat


    43. Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings


    44. Through and through; through every plank and each rib, it thrilled for an instant, the whale obliquely lying on his back, in the manner of a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his mouth, so that the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into the open air, and one of the teeth caught in a row-lock


    45. The sun was darting its brilliant rays obliquely through the greenish, frozen panes of our room


    46. Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch sat down on the sofa facing him obliquely and, looking at Mavriky Nikolaevitch, waited in silence


    47. The skiff became smaller and smaller as it moved obliquely across the stream, the voices became scarcely audible, and at last, still within sight, they landed on the opposite bank where their horses stood waiting


    48. , lugger, a two- or three-masted vessel, with quadrilateral sails hung upon yards fixed obliquely to the masts at about one-third of their length


    49. Suddenly the clouds parted, and a ray of sunshine shot obliquely down towards the south-west


    50. As respected the first, the action of the current on the torpedo placed obliquely, Mr






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    Sinónimos para "obliquely"

    aslant athwart obliquely sidelong sideways to the side abreast laterally alongside in reserve aside