Prone upon the slanting surface, he reached the window.

At last I lay on a slanting surface in a wan light.

He reached the wall and stared upward along its slanting surface at the stars above They danced before.

He heaved his body upward to the slanting surface of the adjoining box car to which he clung with instinctive self-preservation.

They helped her down a slanting surface . . . to a space that opened out around her.

The Zodiac hung at a forty-five-degree angle, its flat bottom parallel to the slanting surface, with the port side lower than starboard.

A quick clutch and a deft heave of his muscular body brought him bellying over the roof edge to a slanting surface.

His interest gradually veered away from the unplumbed voids beyond the slanting surfaces, since it now appeared that the purpose of those surfaces concerned the side he was on.

Two hours later, he had completed a bona fide work of art, a small-scale abstract sculpture laid out on the slanting surface at the base of the waterfall.