Sometimes after swooping down he would alight on the ledge a yard or two away, and the male dove would then turn and face him, and if he then began Sidling up the dove would dash at and buffet him with his wings with the greatest violence and throw him off.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
She went along with up-turned nose, making her way carefully between cabbages and other vegetable refuse, Sidling up against a house to avoid a dead cat which lay huddled up in the middle of the way, with a great red wound in its head.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
"Idy," said her lover, Sidling toward her tenderly, "when you flare up that a-way, you mustn't expect me to think about Barden.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham