askant
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"Has the Squire offered us a home?" she questioned eagerly, eyeing her daughter askant.
From The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky by Henry C. Wood
“No, not yet,” said Mrs Dean, who looked askant at the fresh-comer, and as if she did not approve of him.
From To The West by George Manville Fenn
I glanced at him askant, my boy, and says I, innocently, "I see a still better reason for your clothing yourself for battle in newspapers."
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Robert H. Newell
"Up all night, I presume," eyeing him askant.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?
From Poems By Walt Whitman by William Michael Rossetti
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