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  • It's all music that has been chosen for the vividness of its response to the texts – whether it's the trembling exchanges of Brumel's Earthquake Mass, the monumentality of Josquin's Praeter Rerum Serium, or the disorientating chromatic sideslips of Lassus's Timor et Tremor.

    The Earth Resounds: Works by Lassus, Josquin and Brumel – review 2012

  • It connected to the helmet, a three prong covering where the top slip wedged between her hairclips and set over her forehead, and the two sideslips covered her cheeks.

    Arcana Magi - c.24: Desperation 2010

  • Here, the reader is obliged to consider (in a geometric sense) a grid of verbal events charted by a Lawrence Sterne-like constellation of ‘associations, contrasts, sideslips and oppositions.’

    /ubu Editions, Third Series: 12 New Titles : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • I've had enough of the Big Dawg's little sideslips and two steps when he asked what he thinks.

    CBS To Air More Footage Of Couric Interviewing Palin This Week 2009

  • This was complicated with sideslips and drops as he hit turbulence and thermals-and punctuated by a few-'very few-blessedly smooth moments when he glided for a bit, resting his wings.

    The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • As he checked the automatic horizon, the ship flipped into a series of erratic rolls and sideslips.

    Tom Swift Jr And His Giant Robot Sklar, Richard 1954

  • I mean, he does when he ain't too busy with important enterprises; such as haulin 'Buddy, the Airedale pup, around by the ears; or spoonin' in milk and cereal, with Buddy watchin 'hopeful for sideslips; or pullin' out the spool drawer of Vee's work table.

    Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907

  • A very unusual propulsion scheme -I can’t tell if lateral stability is an issue or if it sideslips right around 00:50 on purpose.

    ZiL-29061 2008

  • A very unusual propulsion scheme -I can’t tell if lateral stability is an issue or if it sideslips right around 00:50 on purpose.

    Phragmipedium caudatum 2008

  • "There's also turbulence up there; Keman has done sideslips, been bounced as if he was trying to buck me off, and dropped halfway to the ground, and even turned upside down by winds.

    Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

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