A tiny brook had run obliquely near the battle line.

Sometimes the tendon runs down the middle of a muscle, and the fibers run obliquely into it, the tendon resembling the quill in a feather.

As they run obliquely downward from the spine, if the sternum or breastbone be lifted in front, the diameter of the chest will be increased.

From the station Mulberry Street runs obliquely up the hillside to the south.

She ran obliquely across the yard in order to return in a greater hurry.

On reaching a rise of land, it re-entered my place and ran obliquely across it.

He ran obliquely away from the pony.

There was something faintly suggestive of a road running obliquely up the face of it, and that we followed.

There were many places at which it could be climbed, and up one of these the track ran obliquely.

3) it runs obliquely downward and outward, and in the base-narrow position (fig.

There are two craters in the interior of Hippalus, and a row of parallel ridges, running obliquely from the S.W.

One of the Indians had shot away from his companion, running obliquely toward the point to which Tad was headed.

A route that crosses every meridian at the same angle is called a loxodrome, a word that means " running obliquely".

"Stop thief!" and he ran obliquely across the oblong towards the yard gates, and vanished.

Having examined the wire, Captain Fyfe led the companies through and found the enemy holding a communication trench running obliquely from the road.

The course ran obliquely round the west side of the berg, so that the incline should not be too great at any point.