The cave bear was far up the gorge, and he saw the thing slanting-ways and far off. He was so surprised he stood quite still upon the edge, sniffing the novel odour of burning bracken, and wondering whether the dawn was coming up in the wrong place.

And there we very luckily caught a glimpse of half a dozen round black heads coming slanting-ways over the hill to the left of us the east that is and almost parallel with us. "At that I called a halt. 'Look here, says I to Hooker and the other Englishmen; 'what are we to do now? and I pointed to the heads. "'Headed orf, or I'm a nigger, said one of the men. "'We shall be, said another.

Here two men were "driving" the level, and another a very tall, powerful man was standing in a hole driven up slanting-ways into the roof, and cutting the rock above his head.

The eastern sun, coming slanting-ways, bathed her tumbled masses of fair hair, her little white form, her bare feet raised tiptoe. Suddenly she drew back.