The slanting floor was wet, and after they had gone in a few yards, water lapped at their toes.

I heard the glove compartment snap open and the accumulated miscellany cascaded down to the slanting floor.

Ruby disentangled herself from her webbing, threw Random a professional salute, and made her way carefully over the slanting floor to the one and only hatch.

Reginald Bell slid across the slanting floor to a wall cabinet and drew out a packet of maps.

It is the largest of the bourgeois houses, is decorated with a distinctive weathercock, and is known for its slanting floors.

The loft above the ceiling - which must have had a slanting floor - was likewise inaccessible.

With Estelle still tugging at him, he managed to get to his feet on the slanting floor and stared about him.

For instance, in 1997, she built a new slanting floor in Gallery 56, thereby using bodily instabilization for intellectual deconstruction.

Over his head a sound like a freight train and a buzz saw all at once made him raise his eyes from the slanting floor to his window.

If we can manually open the back . . .' 'On a slanting floor?