askant

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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 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?

From Poems By Walt Whitman by Rossetti, William Michael

Lady Bassett drew back, and eyed her askant with amazement and terror.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

"Not I," said Leicester, looking askant at the picture.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various

But the eternal father throned on high With fear fill'd Ajax; panic-fixt he stood,655 His seven-fold shield behind his shoulder cast, And hemm'd by numbers, with an eye askant, Watchful retreated.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William