See sidle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The mare never moved; but after immense weight had been placed on both, the horse began to sidle, and before the last bag could be put on him, he sunk on his knees; it was put on the mare, and she bore it, never moving her posture until she was unloaded.",
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"ref": "1853 July, “Niagara”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume VII, number XXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 290, column 2:",
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"text": "A sharper sidleth up to him,\n \"Why bettest thou not?\" saith he.\n For a moment's space the stranger's face\n Was a wondrous thing to see.",
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"text": "One day he sidles up to a group, listens to the conversation for a moment, and actually puts in a remark. \"I beg your pardon!\" says one of the girls politely who has not heard his modest effort at conversation. For a moment Alexander remains rooted to the ground, he stammers out something unintelligible, the whole group turns and looks at him; this completes his confusion, he turns and sidles back to his seat, his face as hot as can be, and remains lost in a Latin grammer^([sic – meaning grammar]) for at least half an hour.",
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"ref": "1934, William Butler Yeats, “[Supernatural Songs] He and She”, in The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems, Dublin: The Cuala Press, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, May 1935, →OCLC, page 43:",
"text": "As the moon sidles up\n Must she sidle up,\n As trips the scared moon\n Away must she trip, [...]",
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"ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:",
"text": "Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.",
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"ref": "2014, Belle Payton, Too Cool for School (It Takes Two), New York, N.Y.: Simon Spotlight, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 71:",
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"ref": "1836, [Catherine Gore], The Diary of a Désennuyée. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Published by Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 176–177:",
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"ref": "1842, A. Lawson, “131. The Achievements of the Horse.”, in The Modern Farrier; or, The Art of Preserving the Health and Curing the Diseases of Horses, Dogs, Oxen, Cows, Sheep, and Swine. […], 25th edition, London: G[eorge] Virtue, […]; Newcastle: R. Dent, →OCLC, page 257:",
"text": "The mare never moved; but after immense weight had been placed on both, the horse began to sidle, and before the last bag could be put on him, he sunk on his knees; it was put on the mare, and she bore it, never moving her posture until she was unloaded.",
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"ref": "2011, Charles M[arion] Russell, “Range Horses”, in Stephen [Vincent] Brennan, editor, The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 478:",
"text": "You could drive a band of hosses up the steepest kind of hill but nobody that I ever knowed could drive a bunch straight down (that goes with cows, too)—they'd sidle it every time.",
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"ref": "1842, Charles Dickens, “Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York.”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 176–177:",
"text": "There was one little prim old lady, of very smiling and good-humoured appearance, who came sidling up to me from the end of a long passage, [...]",
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"ref": "1853 July, “Niagara”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume VII, number XXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 290, column 2:",
"text": "A small lad, with a large head and faded yellow hair, sidles up to you, and says something about \"Ing'n work,\" or \"Cur'osities,\" or \"Cam'ra 'bscura,\" or \"Guide.\" You give some sharp, quick answer; the small boy collapses and vanishes.",
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"ref": "1877 March, “[Humorous Department.] The Barrel Organ.”, in Belford’s Monthly Magazine. A Magazine of Literature and Art, volume I, Toronto, Ont.: Belford Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 589:",
"text": "A sharper sidleth up to him,\n \"Why bettest thou not?\" saith he.\n For a moment's space the stranger's face\n Was a wondrous thing to see.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1914 April, Eric H. May, “The Metamorphosis of a ‘Fusser’”, in Paul Sykes, editor, Vox Lycei: Official Organ of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute, volume XXIX, number 1, Ottawa, Ont.: Ottawa Collegiate Institute, →OCLC, page 16:",
"text": "One day he sidles up to a group, listens to the conversation for a moment, and actually puts in a remark. \"I beg your pardon!\" says one of the girls politely who has not heard his modest effort at conversation. For a moment Alexander remains rooted to the ground, he stammers out something unintelligible, the whole group turns and looks at him; this completes his confusion, he turns and sidles back to his seat, his face as hot as can be, and remains lost in a Latin grammer^([sic – meaning grammar]) for at least half an hour.",
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"ref": "1934, William Butler Yeats, “[Supernatural Songs] He and She”, in The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems, Dublin: The Cuala Press, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, May 1935, →OCLC, page 43:",
"text": "As the moon sidles up\n Must she sidle up,\n As trips the scared moon\n Away must she trip, [...]",
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"ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
"text": "At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:",
"text": "Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.",
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"ref": "2014, Belle Payton, Too Cool for School (It Takes Two), New York, N.Y.: Simon Spotlight, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 71:",
"text": "Ava tried to sidle away, but she was semi-trapped between the corner of the stage and a French Club sign-up table.",
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"ref": "2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:",
"text": "A man I'd never spoken to before who worked in the IT department sidled behind me as I danced and put his hands on my waist where the cut-outs were.",
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"roman": "xodítʹ bókom",
"sense": "to (cause something to) move sideways",
"word": "ходи́ть бо́ком"
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"roman": "probirátʹsja bočkóm",
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"word": "пробира́ться бочко́м"
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"sense": "to (cause something to) move sideways",
"word": "caminar de lado"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to (cause something to) move sideways",
"word": "caminar de costado"
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"sense": "to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner",
"word": "se faufiler"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner",
"word": "schleichen"
},
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"word": "aliar"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "estar con"
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"word": "salir sigilosamente"
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"word": "acercar"
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"text": "Listener up there! Here you … what have you to confide in me?\n Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,\n Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.",
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