cornerways

“Is that Barbro?” says Oline, turning just her eyes and no more to look for her; ay, she is poorly is Oline, and a pitiful sight with her eyes screwed round cornerways.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

The chimney stacks, all smoking with the thin blue smoke of logs, are of tiny Tudor bricks, and the chimneys are set not square with the house but cornerways.

A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions 1903

'"Mother's at canteen," sez Judy, smoothin' the hair av hers that was like red snakes, an 'lookin' at me cornerways out av her green cats 'eyes.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

He says Hiram had a idea as the more the speed the better the paper an 'was just wringin' for dear life, an 'the first thing he knew the first issue begin to slide a little cornerways an' slid off into a crank as Elijah never knowed was there, an 'him an' Mr. Kimball spent the whole of yesterday runnin 'around like mad an' no way to fix it.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891

The line was carried by the wind cornerways, and lodged against the building, and consequently became useless.

Anecdotes and Observations, Reflections and Critical Remarks 1824

o 'bein' folded up; 'n' then he stuck a gilt arrow in his heart 'n' laid him cornerways on the deacon's cross o 'tiger-lilies.

Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs Anne Warner 1891

'n' see that old mousey letter stuck in it cornerways, I no more thought o 'findin' a cousin than I did o 'findin' a moth, 'n' _you_ know how scarce moths is with me; I ain't so much 's seen one 'xcept on your side o' the house in twenty years, I do believe.

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop Anne Warner 1891

'n' you know 's well 's I do 't no rooster killed cornerways ain't never goin 'to bring no nickel apiece for his corners.

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop Anne Warner 1891

Clover shook Aunt Mary’s for her and gave it a beautiful cornerways spread across her lap.

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary Anne Warner 1891