slabsided

Apart from some outlying domes for special purposes, the town was four long slabsided sections, eight stories high, forming a quadrangle in whose courtyard the main radio mast lifted its beacon-eyed skeleton.

Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

Apart from some out'lying domes for special purposes, the town was four long slabsided sections, eight stories high, forming a quadrangle in whose courtyard the main radio mast lifted its beacon-eyed skeleton.

Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

It would eventually bring me crabbed and crow-footed old age, and fallen arches and a slabsided figure that a range-pinto would shy at.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

Dinky-Dunk, when I've been homesick for that old slabsided ranch-shack and the glory of seeing you come in ruddy and hungry and happy for the ham and eggs and bread I'd cooked with my own hands.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

And I may be a hard-handed and slabsided prairie huzzy, but there was a time when I stood beside the big palms by the fountain in the conservatory of Prince Ernest de

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

Along this stretch of railroad the mountaineers come to the stations wearing the distinctive costume of their own craggy and slabsided hills -- the curling pheasant feather in the hatbrim; the tight-fitting knee-breeches; the gaudy stockings; and the broad-suspendered belt with rows of huge brass buttons spangling it up and down and crosswise.

Europe Revised 1910

Island there's a slabsided, beastly, canting Methodist Yankee who has a shop too.

Ringfield A Novel 1897

Before he can arise to resume the fray, the company receives an accession in the person of a tall, slabsided, awkwardly-made youth, who impetuously elbows the others aside, and makes his way to the centre of the fistic arena.

Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 John Charles Dent 1864

"Pint dat ar ho'e 'way f'om me,' fo 'I make yo' ma spank yuh slabsided.

Miss Minerva and William Green Hill Frances Boyd Calhoun 1888

“Besides all, he had an overseer, — a great, tall, slabsided, two-fisted renegade son of Vermont — (begging your pardon), — who had gone through a regular apprenticeship in hardness and brutality, and taken his degree to be admitted

Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly 1852