askant

While appearing to listen to Adelaide, her eyes wandered over me with speculation askant in them.

From The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard

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

This was because he had supposed that a look of hers askant had rested on a knife upon the table within reach.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

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

From A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade

Some of the old houses that stand endwise to the street, looking askant at the passer,—especially if he is a stranger in town,—might be veritable treasuries of this sort of material.

From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop