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 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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
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
While appearing to listen to Adelaide, her eyes wandered over me with speculation askant in them.
From The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
Barbara turned grave directly; he eyed her askant, and saw the random shot had gone home.
From International Short Stories English by Various
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