In this way I should rise by steps, as it were, Obliquing always in the direction of the hatchway.
"The Boy Tar"
Mayne Reid
They keep Canal, Obliquing to that side of the way farthest from the balconies- "To make room," cries Victorine, "to form line pritty soon off horses, in front those cannon'."
"Kincaid's Battery"
George W. Cable
The whole transaction was the work of a single instant; and before the squatters, who came with their slain leader, could sufficiently recover from the panic produced by the event to revenge his death, the youth was beyond their reach; and the assailing party of the guard, in front of the post, apprized of the sally by the discharge of the pistol, made fearful work among them by a general fire, while Obliquing to the entrance of the pass just in time to behold the catastrophe, now somewhat precipitated by the event which had occurred below.
"Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia"
William Gilmore Simms