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Sidle   Listen
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Sidle  v. t.  (past & past part. sidled; pres. part. sidling)  To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening. "He... then sidled close to the astonished girl."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sidle" Quotes from Famous Books



... again came a roar of cheering like a sea billow. Again and again alternated the half silence and the uproar. Before we learned what was happening or had happened word came from mouth to mouth that we were going on. The press in front of us gradually melted away, we were able to sidle into the roadway, reform ranks ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... is handed me when I discovers how the high-shouldered young husk with the wide-set blue eyes, that I'd seen hangin' round the Arcade on and off, was really waitin' for Ruby. Uh-huh! I stood and watched 'em sidle up to each other and go driftin' out into Broadway hand in hand. A swell pair they'd make for a Rube vaudeville act! Honest, with a few make-up touches, they could have walked right on and ...
— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford

... he began to sidle near to the youth, and in a different way try to make him a friend. His voice was gentle as a girl's voice and his eyes were pleading. The youth saw with surprise that the soldier had two wounds, one in the head, bound with a blood-soaked rag, and the other in the ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... much as to say, 'Well, I'll have to get you to excuse me,' 'n' without another word he'd hyste his nose into the air 'n' shove for home. But if the ground suited him, he would lay low 'n' keep dark till the first pan was washed, 'n' then he would sidle up 'n' take a look, an' if there was about six or seven grains of gold he was satisfied—he didn't want no better prospect 'n' that—'n' then he would lay down on our coats and snore like a steamboat till we'd struck the pocket, an' then get up 'n' superintend. He was ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... and try to discover what is wrong." She kept Mary at her side after this, and when she was not doing something to entertain her, Dick was, till both Molly and Polly began to add jealous pangs to their other grievances, yet they would only sidle up to their aunt and uncle or would sit near enough to hear what was said without joining ...
— Three Little Cousins • Amy E. Blanchard

... I do!" said the other, and it became evident that trouble was near, for a group of the disaffected commenced to sidle toward the platform, calling on Caribou Jessy to give ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

... mount a little better. Take hold of your reins and the mane there tightly, up with your left foot into the stirrup, and lay your hand on the cantle of the saddle; don't pull it, only support yourself by it. Now draw your off rein a little, so that the horse cannot sidle away, spring up lightly, and throw your leg ...
— First in the Field - A Story of New South Wales • George Manville Fenn



Words linked to "Sidle" :   sashay, move



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