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 Charles Reade
Can I dream of intruding upon a class of men who will ever look at me askant?
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
“No, not yet,” said Mrs Dean, who looked askant at the fresh-comer, and as if she did not approve of him.
From To The West by George Manville Fenn
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
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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