askant

As he walked over to it he nodded to half a score of acquaintances, some of whom looked askant at his companion, and exchanged whispered comments after he had passed.

Spirituality does not light it; evanescent dreams are its oil-lamps, often with wick askant in the socket.

"Has the Squire offered us a home?" she questioned eagerly, eyeing her daughter askant.

It was a community of men of the same mind who were even looked askant upon by the Government.

All at once the planter appeared to recoil from his purpose, and looking askant, he spent some time in surveying his intended victim, and as if calculating the chances of a rencontre.