askant
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The Valley soldiers were largely of the Presbyterian faith, and of a solemn, pious demeanor, and looked askant at the caperings of my Creoles, holding them to be "devices and snares."
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
Lady Bassett drew back, and eyed her askant with amazement and terror.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day 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
Spirituality does not light it; evanescent dreams are its oil-lamps, often with wick askant in the socket.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
They looked with eyes askant at the mate and his three companions, but said nothing to them.
From Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors by W. Herbert Holloway
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