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He looked askant at Monckton, and he showed the white of his eyes more and more.

From A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade

Old Peter Thomas—who seemed to have become crystallized, as it were, in age and decrepitude, and advanced no further in either—was pottering around the garden, eying askant, like an old robin, the new plough furrows.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

But the good folk of Kilfinane eye us terribly askant, or, to be more literally exact, do not eye us at all; at least, their eyes betray "no speculation."

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker

Can I dream of intruding upon a class of men who will ever look at me askant?

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Barbara turned grave directly; he eyed her askant, and saw the random shot had gone home.

From International Short Stories English by Various


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