askant

Example Sentences

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He looked askant at Monckton, and he showed the white of his eyes more and more.

From A Perilous Secret by Reade, Charles

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

When He provided none, they stopped speculating, and went on as sharply askant as hens at any smaller good pecks life might have for them.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

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

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

While appearing to listen to Adelaide, her eyes wandered over me with speculation askant in them.

From The Morgesons by Stoddard, Elizabeth