crabwise

So I wasn't going straight at all, but rather crabwise.

The boy came down the slope crabwise, clutching at the rocks.

He began to pace crabwise towards her on his innumerable legs.

The boat moved crabwise because of the current running through the narrows between' the island and the mainland.

She meanders at the start, approaching her points crabwise.

If he waited another two or three minutes the launch might have moved slightly crabwise so that the cable would miss it.

He nodded and watched as I moved off, scuttling crabwise through the shadows to the house.

I got to my knees and in a crouch, moved crabwise thirty yards to the left.

She seemed to be moving crabwise, as if she had lost too many oars on one side.

Then he swung himself round, face to the cliff, and started to move crabwise towards the chimney.

He turned his back on the compartment and moved discreetly crabwise, pretending to look out of the dirty window.

He checked the second tile, stole a glance back over his shoulder at her, then moved crabwise to the right to try a third.

Going crabwise, I drew further away, taking advantage of every square inch of cover!

He goes up sideways, crabwise, digging footholds with the sides of his boots.

Lord Leighton shrugged and slipped crabwise into a chair at his desk.

"The proof of that is George Bush has moved crabwise in a conservative direction ever since we announced seven weeks ago."

The chamberlain gave him a brief nod of relief and scuttled crabwise from the hall.

The tangos were working toward him crabwise, cautious now that some of their buddies had been tagged.

Spider, his whip singing, came crabwise down the dune.

He got up and, crabwise, scuttled quickly down the street, checked Binghamton's cooling body.

I moved crabwise along the wall until I was opposite the point, forty feet from the cliff, where she would touch ground.

Lucas scrambled crabwise across the basement to his gun safe and spun the combination dial.

Cordelia ducked and scuttled crabwise to the steps down.

I moved warily crabwise, over the edge.

The sun crawled crabwise toward the horizon.