askant
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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
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
She gave an askant look into it, and was silent.
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
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
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