Now she stands musing on the beach, leg locked, pelvis aslant, thumb and forefingers propped along the iliac crest and lightly, propped lightly as an athlete.

The Shaft that slightly was impress’d,
Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d,
Drove through his Neck, aslant,

1914, Constance Garnett (translator), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1917, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 321,
A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very acute angle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light.

[…] he was looking aslant and not directly at me; more of a gaze to the side of me.

I oft have passed your cottage, and still prais’d
Its beauty, and that trim orchard-plot, whose blossoms

But aslant this particular glass reclined a single, white, wintry rose, possibly the last rose ever, its invalid complexion infused with a delicate transcendent green.

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