Then the gleams of lightning were very fierce, the thunder crashed very near; this storm had gathered immediately above Villette; it seemed to have burst at the zenith; it rushed down prone; the forked, slant bolts pierced athwart vertical torrents; red zigzags interlaced a descent blanched as white metal: and all broke from a sky heavily black in its swollen abundance.
Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind, blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
"Hold out the yeast cake and I will shine on it very brightly, and then I'll slant, or bounce off from it, into the eyes of the fox," said the sunbeam.
She had somehow escaped the family high cheek-bones, and her dark-brown eyes, too soft and shadowy to be black, had a slant that was almost Oriental.
If you are working with younger kids, you would slant this more toward fundamental skills.
Which way does your handwriting slant?
He may end up doing some real good for the world too — either by getting more green buildings in China or even giving a new slant to the US-China relationship.
Wunderkind isn't derogatory, unless you're 40 and described as 'once a wunderkind'," Dolan said to Slant Magazine.
And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.
There will be common ground between your answers but each will have a slightly different slant to it.
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), A Christmas Carol There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), No.
