askant

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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.

From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Reid, Mayne

"But," said D'Artagnan, looking askant at Brienne, "you do not know perhaps, monsieur, that I have the privilege of entrée anywhere, and at any hour."

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

Can I dream of intruding upon a class of men who will ever look at me askant?

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich

This was because he had supposed that a look of hers askant had rested on a knife upon the table within reach.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

Some of the old houses that stand endwise to the street, looking askant at the passer,—especially if he is a stranger in town,—might be veritable treasuries of this sort of material.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons