These under the cherry trees with the sunshine shining through slantways made one of the brilliant sights of a lifetime.
"Letters from China and Japan"
John Dewey Alice Chipman Dewey
And with my mind's eye I saw the dusky bird: shooting slantways upward in its low flight which ends in a nearly perpendicular slide down to within ten or twelve feet from the ground, the bird being closely followed by a second one pursuing.
"Over Prairie Trails"
Frederick Philip Grove
A huge obstacle to the northwest, probably a buried clump of brush, had made the wind turn back upon itself, first downward, then, at the bottom of the pit, in a direction opposite to that of the main current above, and finally slantways upward again to the summit of the obstacle, where it rejoined the parent blow.
"Over Prairie Trails"
Frederick Philip Grove