askant
Example Sentences
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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
Whilst he was walking to and fro, Crockston passed him several times, looking at him askant with a satisfied grin.
From The Blockade Runners by D'Anvers, N.
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
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 Taylor, Richard
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