askant
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Barbara turned grave directly; he eyed her askant, and saw the random shot had gone home.
From International Short Stories English by Various
"Up all night, I presume," eyeing him askant.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
"Mamma," said she, her eyes cast down, her head askant like a shy bird's, "I am afraid I have a lover!"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?
From Poems By Walt Whitman by William Michael Rossetti
But the good folk of Kilfinane eye us terribly askant, or, to be more literally exact, do not eye us at all; at least, their eyes betray "no speculation."
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
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