In the first case its fall would be described by an oblique line.

Then the blood started to flow from neat round holes in an oblique line down her body.

There are seven oblique lines present of which the third is the heaviest.

There are very many close unequal oblique lines of growth.

The two anterior oblique lines darker and more prominent than the others.

Consequently, the chief part of the bone is below the oblique line.

The shell is also marked with faint oblique lines of growth.

The Victoria was then taking an oblique line to the westward.

A series of fine oblique lines show that the animal was hog-maned.

But the oblique lines come together in unexpected and sometimes hauntingly beautiful ways.